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Here's your afternoon T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, September 18th. I'm Julie Chang for the

Wall Street Journal. Microsoft said it's nearing completion on a $3.3 billion project in Wisconsin

that it's calling the most advanced AI data center in the world.

The data center is slated to be operational early next year.

That's according to Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith.

He said the data center will initially be used to train open AI models.

Smith also unveiled an additional $4 billion

commitment from Microsoft for a second data center in the area of similar size and scope.

Plus, we exclusively report that META has held discussions in recent months with a number of

media companies, including Axel Springer, Foxcorp, and News Corp about licensing

their articles for use in its artificial intelligence tools. That's according to people familiar

with the matter. The move marks a shift for meta, which had recently lessened its focus on paying

for and surfacing news content. Sources say some of the conversations are early and might not lead to any new deals.

Fox and News Corp, the Wall Street Journal's parent company, share common ownership.

Finally, Huawei plans to release new AI chips over the next three years.

The first will be a new generation of its Ascend chips, seen as a potential

challenger to Nvidia's offerings in the country. It comes as Nvidia faces more difficulty in

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