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Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (Wall Street Journal)

Bitter rivals are forming alliances and executives are having to personally intervene over the scramble for resources to fuel the AI boom

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