Google puts TPUs in orbit, Anthropic locks in billions of cloud, and AI agents face government scrutiny

Podcast: AI in Flow · Six & Flow

Opublikowano: 2026-09-25

In today’s episode of AI in Flow, Claire and Peter break down Google’s Project Suncatcher, a prototype satellite carrying Tensor Processing Units to test whether AI hardware can survive launch, radiation, and extreme temperatures, and what space-based compute could mean as a future supplement to terrestrial data centres. They also unpack Anthropic’s seven-year, 11.6 billion dollar cloud deal with Akamai, including an equity warrant tied to consumption, and what it signals about compute demand, pricing, and the rise of alternative cloud infrastructure for frontier labs. The episode then turns to governance and risk, with Australia investigating whether an OpenAI...