AI: TSMC's 'AI Fed' 30% Target, Nvidia AI PCs, Anthropic Files IPO & More. AI-RTZ #1109.
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TSMC is still the Fed of the Global AI Economy: Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei did his best Fed chairman impersonation and bounded AI chip growth at a 30% rate for the near term for this AI Tech Wave. He said that the global chip supply will fall short of AI driven demand for years to come. And that TSMC will be unable to fulfill demand led by US AI companies and their customers, even as more AI chips and other AI infrastructure capacity comes online in the US by the end of the decade. And similar to Samsung, TSMC confirmed a 30% bonus bump for its employees this year given robust global demand. All this despite the efforts by many of its top customers like Elon Musk to boost independent chip fab infrastructure with its Terafab initiative, in partnership with Intel and others. Nvidia and Apple remain TSMC’s top customers in the near term. More here.
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Nvidia and Microsoft partner on Windows AI PCs: Nvidia founder/CEO Jensen Huang kicked off its GTC 2026 Computex keynote in Taiwan with a chock full presentation. One of the highlights was its Spark DGX AI chip based Windows computer initiative with Microsoft and many of its OEM partners like Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and many others. The first Windows machines with Nvidia silicon as the main processor arrive this Fall — including Microsoft’s own Surface line — designed for local AI agentic computing. It bridges Nvidia’s AI ‘mainframes’ in the cloud to local AI computers in offices and homes, gives Microsoft a second chance at the AI PC after the Copilot+ stumbles, and squares up against Qualcomm, AMD, Intel — and Apple Silicon. More here.
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Meta throws AI Agents at all its Walls: Meta is experimenting with multiple AI Agent products and pricing across its core platforms, targeting hundreds of millions of businesses amongst its 3.5+ billion consumer customers. This despite the unwinding of its $2+ billion Manus AI Agent acquisition out of China. Founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying a variety of AI Agent products and services, ranging from its new closed Muse Spark AI model, to it Hatch AI Agent service, designed to be like OpenAI’s OpenClaw AI Agent service. Not to mention a $200/month AI Agent subscription targeted at businesses, more in line with similar top tier subscription offerings by Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google with its Gemini Ultra service. Meta is focused on offering these services in WhatsApp, which is globally popular, especially with small businesses. The world’s largest consumer hammer, applied to businesses within its midst. To see what sticks. More here.
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Anthropic Mythos AI Pricing goes higher: Anthropic with its next gen Mythos LLM AI is poised to become a cybersecurity ‘must buy’ in the enterprise market. With far higher prices than its prior AI models. And customers are lining up with conviction and justification for these higher prices. The model remains hand-released to governments and major partners for now — premium pricing earning its ‘mythic’ name, conveniently timed ahead of Anthropic’s IPO. OpenAI likely to follow a similar pricing path with its GPT 5.5 version and beyond of Codex/ChatGPT. Cybersecurity may end up being the next big ‘Product-Market-Fit’ category after AI Coding for the enterprise AI industry to date. More here.
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Anthropic Files IPO ahead of SpaceX/xAI IPO next week: Anthropic got its confidential IPO filing done ahead of Elon Musk’s $1.75+ trillion SpaceX/xAI IPO launch next week. Not to mention OpenAI with similar plans later this year. It’s all part of a global rush to public market equity funding both in the US and in Asia. Alphabet/Google launched an $80+ billion equity funding campaign with over half raised. One of its core investors is Berkshire Hathaway of ‘Warren Buffett’ fame. Now with a $30+ billion stake in a top ten position in its global long term portfolio. Joining Apple as its second core tech investment. Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX/xAI alone are expected to raise over $200 billion in public equity investments from institutional and individual investors. After years of an IPO dearth, the liquidity in global markets — tens of trillions across active and passive funds — is more than ample to absorb it. More here.
Other AI Readings for weekend:
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A Tale of Three Tech Conferences. Microsoft Build 2026 & Nvidia GTC Taipei 2026 done. Apple’s WWDC 2026 on Monday. More here..
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Wall-to-Wall SpaceX/xAI $1.75+ Trillion IPO Focus all next week. More here.
(Additional Note: AI Ramblings Daily on YouTube, is now a weekday Daily podcast called AI Ramblings Daily (ARD). Different content than AI-Reset to Zero (AI-RTZ) subtack, which remains a daily morning substack write-up. With now over 1100+ ‘MY TAKES’ on key AI events and issues turbulently flowing by. ARD is a typically a 20 minute afternoon podcast every day, on my take on additional AI developments. Both daily substack and podcasts typically discuss different AI issues and items. There is a daily text summary of the daily podcasts here on the substack, as well as one minute YouTube ‘Shorts’ video clips on the key topics discussed. And all are free to subscribe for now. Try this week’s series with ARD Episodes:
87 — Three Tech Conferences and AI,
88 — Global Equity-Raise Rush,
89 — Government & Corporate AI Stakes,
90 — When It Rains It Pours, and
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