Meta breaks ground on a massive $10 billion AI data center in Lebanon, Indiana, creating over 4,000 construction jobs and 300 permanent positions while delivering 1 gigawatt of computing power for artificial intelligence workloads with 100% clean energy and advanced water conservation systems.
Databricks secures $5 billion in funding, catapulting its valuation to $134 billion as the data analytics giant reports explosive 65% revenue growth to $5.4 billion annually while achieving positive cash flow and eyeing a potential 2026 IPO.
Google launches revolutionary Interactions API that replaces traditional AI prompts with stateful session management, enabling developers to build persistent AI applications with background processing capabilities and explicit context tracking that survives across sessions while reducing costs.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reveal a staggering $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog as AI demand explodes, forcing Big Tech giants to tap bond markets for billions while creating massive opportunities for smaller competitors.
AI stocks crash despite companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and chip manufacturers posting record double-digit growth and Amazon announcing $200 billion infrastructure investment, prompting analysts to declare the selloff a rare once-in-a-decade buying opportunity as the transformative technology remains in early development stages.
Security researchers discover critical flaws in 7.1% of ClawHub's nearly 4,000 skills that expose sensitive credentials, while over 30,000 OpenClaw instances remain dangerously exposed online, prompting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to issue urgent security alerts about the platform's extensive enterprise system access risks.
Google Cloud contributes gRPC transport package for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, with Spotify and other companies backing the initiative that promises reduced bandwidth and CPU overhead while sparking debate over AI-first design versus traditional RPC system compatibility.
Chinese AI companies surge to dominance in open-source development as DeepSeek becomes Hugging Face's most-followed organization, with tech giants like Tencent and ByteDance abandoning closed models for collaborative approaches that generate over 113,000 derivative models while massive infrastructure investments totaling 1590 EFLOPS accelerate China's AI ecosystem transformation.
Google unveils Developer Knowledge API that grants AI development tools direct access to Firebase, Android, and Cloud documentation in machine-readable format, enabling automated searches and retrieval of implementation guidance while promising expanded features including structured code samples and broader documentation coverage.
AI startup Fundamental emerges from stealth with massive $255M Series A funding at $1.2B valuation, developing breakthrough Nexus technology that analyzes enormous structured datasets traditional AI cannot handle, already securing seven-figure Fortune 100 contracts.