Ricoh to build a new inkjet printhead facility in Atsugi; Anthropic locks in $11.6 billion of compute — plus 8 more moves | BPJ News Morning Edition
In one 24-hour slice of news, we see the “heart” of the press, the capital and electricity behind AI, and paper books being bought as training-data feedstock. The competitive edge is drifting from “printing” toward “supply and operations.”
Ricoh says it will build a new building for inkjet printhead production at its Atsugi site. On the AI side, Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion compute (cloud) agreement with Akamai. And paper books are starting to look less like something you “read” — and more like something you procure as raw material for training data.
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Ricoh is building a new inkjet printhead facility in Atsugi. Anthropic bought compute capacity worth $11.6 billion over seven years. Paper books are becoming raw material not only for “reading,” but for “training.”
Ricoh to build a new inkjet printhead building in Atsugi; stable supply becomes a competitive condition
Ricoh announced it will construct a new building for inkjet printhead production at its Atsugi site in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture (south of Tokyo,…
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