Meta's Cloud Bet, EU's Customs Shock, and the PPO Debate
About this episode
Meta launches cloud compute business to monetize AI infrastructure surplus, EU eliminates sub-€150 customs exemption causing shipping delays, AI researchers debate whether PPO's critic model is worth its cost
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Sources & Citations
Meta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing Power
www.bloomberg.com
Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
Meta plots AI cloud business to challenge Amazon, Microsoft and Google | Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com
Meta pops 10% as company makes cloud push to sell excess AI compute power capacity | CNBC
www.cnbc.com
Digg
digg.com
Digg
digg.com
Guidance and legal text on temporary flat fee on low-value imports which will apply until 1 July 2028 - Taxation and Customs Union
taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu
EU €3 duty low-value e-commerce parcel imports 1st July 2026 - vatcalc.com
www.vatcalc.com
Digg – Google DeepMind's Pranav Shyam argues short-horizon PPO reduces to bandit problems
digg.com
SPPO: Sequence-Level PPO for Long-Horizon Reasoning Tasks (arXiv 2604.08865)
arxiv.org
HuggingFace Papers – SPPO paper page
huggingface.co
PPO for LLMs: A Guide for Normal People (Cameron Wolfe / Deep Learning Focus)
cameronrwolfe.substack.com