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STORY: From multi-billion dollar deals, to plays written with AI -- this is AI Weekly. -- :: AI WeeklyMicrosoft and Nvidia have made a mega deal with Claude-maker Anthropic, featuring tens of billions of dollars of spending.It includes a $30 billion commitment by the AI company to Microsoft's cloud services, Azure. And both Nvidia and Microsoft committing up to $10 billion and $5 billion in Anthropic, respectively. The agreement brings together major players in the AI industry, with Claude being a major rival to ChatGPT.Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15 billion in new equity - at a valuation of $230 billion.That's according to the Wall Street Journal. The new valuation would more than double the amount disclosed in March.The startup has been rapidly scaling its data-center footprint to train more advanced models, as it tries to close the gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Bank of America is planning to spend $4 billion more in new technology, including AI, to boost bankers' productivity and drive revenue growth.The bank's chief technology officer said its 18,000 developers have used AI agents for the past year, with significant gains in productivity.The second-biggest U.S. lender sends AI-generated market information to its financial advisers, combined with data on clients' portfolios, so that bankers can better tailor their investment advice.Nvidia's move to use smartphone-style memory chips in its AI servers could cause server-memory prices to double by late 2026.That's according to a report published Wednesday by Counterpoint Research.Electronics supply chains worldwide have been hit by a shortage of legacy memory chips in the last two months.Manufacturers have turned their focus to high-end memory chips suited to semiconductors.Counterpoint says Nvidia's decision to reduce AI server power costs, by changing the kind of memory chip it uses, could create sudden demand that the industry is not prepared for.:: Sorbonne Universite / Theatre Moliere SorbonneAnd, scholars have teamed up with an AI collective in Paris to create a new play written in the style of the famous 17th-century playwright Moliere.Over the last three years, the team has trained the French-developed Mistral AI on Moliere's works, personal library texts, and historical documents to replicate his language and humor.A production called "The Astrologer or the False Omens" is set to debut at the Chateau de Versailles in May 2026...

DENVER, November 19, 2025--As AI and cloud adoption accelerate, so do the speed and sophistication of cyberattacks. To help organizations keep pace, Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced the launch of Lumen Defender℠ Advanced Managed Detection and Response (AMDR) with Microsoft Sentinel—a fully managed, cloud-native security solution that merges Lumen’s global network intelligence with Microsoft’s leading security platform...

eMazzanti Technologies President and Co-founder Carl Mazzanti has been selected by the Hudson Chamber of Commerce to receive a 2025 Class of Legends honor. He will receive the Chamber's Corporate Citizenship Award for elevating Hudson County through corporate social responsibility, volunteer engagement and leadership...

Sepio, the pioneer in hardware-asset risk management, today announced that it is now eligible under the Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) program via the Azure Marketplace. This enables organizations with existing MACC agreements to apply committed Microsoft Azure spend toward acquiring Sepio's innovative software-based solution, bringing deep visibility and control to IT, IoT, OT and CPS environments...

2U, a global leader in education technology, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to launch CxO Edge: Run your business on AI, a new online executive education program launching first on edX, 2U's global online learning platform, in early 2026. Introduced today at Microsoft's Ignite conference, the program helps business leaders move from AI experimentation to measurable enterprise performance...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 19, 2025--Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced three strategic innovations with Microsoft. The announcement, at the Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference, showcases the integration of Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform with Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft’s enterprise-grade agentic AI platform...

INVENT, the leading platform solving for the integration and data management challenges in wealth management, announced today the appointment of Jim Zimmerman as its Chief AI Officer. Zimmerman joins Invent following a distinguished career at Microsoft and Red Hat, where he helped shape cloud, open-source, and AI strategies that transformed how enterprise developers deploy and manage technology at scale...

Nvidia is set to report its quarterly earnings on Wednesday as investors fret about lofty AI valuations...

NEW YORK, November 19, 2025--Kasisto, a leader in banking AI, today announced that its KAIgentic platform is one of the first agentic platforms integrated with Microsoft Agent 365, enabling financial institutions to deploy intelligent, compliant banking AI agents across the Microsoft enterprise ecosystem. The integration allows banks using Microsoft 365 to manage domain specific AI agents that transform customer engagement, elevate employee productivity, and drive operational efficiency within t...