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Blackstone Commits $5 Billion to New Google TPU Cloud

Blackstone has committed $5 billion in equity for a majority stake in a new US-based AI cloud joint venture with Google that will sell Google's TPUs as a compute-as-a-service offering.

Blackstone has pledged $5 billion in equity for a majority stake in a new US-based AI cloud company with Google, which will sell access to Google’s Tensor Processing Units outside the Google Cloud Platform. The venture targets 500 MW of capacity by 2027 and signals a sharper challenge to Nvidia’s grip on the AI chip market.

Anthropic Warns China Could Close AI gap by 2028, as Trump meets Xi in Beijing

US President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14-15, 2026 — the same week Anthropic published a policy paper warning that China could close the AI gap by 2028.

Anthropic’s policy paper warning of Chinese AI parity by 2028 was published hours before the US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms, as President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in China.