Anthropic and CoreWeave have reached a multi-year agreement to rent its data center capacity to support growing demand for AI services. The deal will help Anthropic build its Claude AI models and includes multiple Nvidia chip architectures. The partnership will also require working with Broadcom and Google to secure 3.5 gigawatts of power.

Texas-based builder Megatel Homes LLC launches cryptocurrency "MegPrime" for payments and rewards, as a continuation of its rent-to-down payment program. The token can be used at merchants, offering rebates and housing benefits, but does not have investment properties or securities rights.

Cryptocurrency education organization Alpha Lions Academy founder Edoardo Farina recently stated that XRP may become "an asset affordable to only 1% of the population" in the near future. In his view, global economic pressures, institutional capital concentration, and the reshaping of the financial system are collectively driving XRP towards high elitism. Farina pointed out that persistent inflation and stagnant wage growth are continuously squeezing the disposable income of most ordinary people. A series of global events since 2019 have exacerbated the rise in living costs, forcing more and more people to sell cryptocurrencies including XRP to cover basic expenses such as rent and food. Against this backdrop, investing in digital assets has gradually shifted from a "choice" to a "luxury."

Golden Finance reports that, according to SolanaFloor, the Metaplex Foundation has initiated a vote on MIP 012. The proposal suggests updating the Bubblegum program to allow creators to close unused cNFT Merkle trees and reclaim rent.

BlockBeats News, December 12 — Brennan Watt, Vice President of Core Engineering at Solana research and development company Anza, stated at the Solana Breakpoint conference that proposal SIMD-0389 could reduce Solana account creation rent by 10 times, potentially scalable to a 100-fold reduction. Note: In the Solana network, Account Rent refers to the "storage fee" mechanism required for an account to permanently store data on the chain. According to Anza's analysis of the security slowdown mechanism, this change was discussed at the recent SolanaConf and may involve reclaiming hundreds of millions of dormant accounts.

According to reports from Jinse Finance and The Information, Google is actively expanding its TPU market, including reaching a protocol with cloud service provider Fluidstack: if Fluidstack fails to pay the rent for the new data center in New York, Google will provide a guarantee of up to $3.2 billion.

In pre-market trading on Tuesday, Nvidia's stock price fell by 3.2%, following reports that Meta is in talks to use Google's AI chips. Boosted by this news, Alphabet's stock price rose by 2.1%, as investors digest the potential shift in the AI hardware landscape. The Information reported on Monday that Meta is considering deploying Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in its data centers before 2027. The social media giant may rent TPUs from Google Cloud as early as next year.