A new Gallup survey reveals 7 in 10 Americans oppose AI data centers in their communities, with nearly half strongly against them — surpassing even opposition to nuclear plants — as environmental concerns over water, energy use, and pollution drive resistance across party lines.
Notion launches a new Developer Platform, transforming its workspace into an AI agent orchestration hub where custom code, live data, and external AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor can connect, automate workflows, and operate natively without outside infrastructure.
A new Gallup poll reveals 7 in 10 Americans oppose local data center construction, with bipartisan resistance spanning 75% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans, as environmental concerns, rising costs, and AI distrust fuel a growing public backlash that threatens the future of AI infrastructure expansion across the country.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems explodes 68% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $311.07 after raising $5.55 billion in the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 listing, pushing its market cap to roughly $95 billion as it aggressively challenges Nvidia with new deals from AWS and OpenAI.
Google and SpaceX are in active talks to launch orbital data centers in space, though current analysis suggests terrestrial data centers remain far more cost-effective once satellite construction and launch costs are factored in.
Modal slashes GPU cold start times from over 2,000 seconds to just 50 seconds using a breakthrough combination of cloud-buffered idle GPUs, lazy-loading filesystems, CPU memory snapshotting, and CUDA checkpoint/restore, delivering 4-10x faster serverless inference for LLM workloads across hundreds of organizations.
Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, potentially valuing the AI company behind Claude at over $900 billion in what could be its largest funding round yet.
DeepSeek's valuation more than doubles to $45 billion as the Chinese AI lab enters talks for its first-ever VC round, led by a Chinese state fund with Tencent and Alibaba also in discussions, signaling China's aggressive push to build homegrown AI rivaling the U.S.
Anthropic's Claude Platform is now live on AWS, offering full API feature parity, native IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and unified billing, giving developers powerful AI tools while a separate Amazon Bedrock option keeps data within AWS infrastructure for stricter compliance needs.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is in talks with French President Emmanuel Macron over a multibillion-dollar AI data center investment in France, with Son reportedly floating a figure as high as $100 billion as part of a sweeping global push to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure.