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.
OpenAI launches a $4 billion Deployment Company, acquiring AI consulting firm Tomoro and its 150 engineers to embed AI specialists directly into enterprise workflows, backed by major investors including TPG, McKinsey, and Goldman Sachs.
An Intel executive warns that cloud-only AI is economically and infrastructurally unsustainable, calling for a major industry shift toward hybrid on-device and edge AI systems that prioritize affordability, energy efficiency, and user privacy across laptops, phones, and beyond.
Nvidia surpasses $40 billion in AI investments in 2026, securing major deals with Corning, IREN, and OpenAI to dominate the AI supply chain, but critics warn the strategy may be artificially inflating GPU demand in a move reminiscent of dot-com era vendor financing.
Akamai stock surges over 25% to its highest level since 2000 after Anthropic is confirmed as the customer behind a massive seven-year, $1.8 billion cloud deal, as the AI company aggressively expands its compute infrastructure through multiple partnerships to combat usage limits and rival OpenAI.
Apple and Intel strike a preliminary chip-making deal brokered with U.S. government involvement, sending Intel shares surging 13% and reuniting the two tech giants after Apple previously ditched Intel processors in favor of its own silicon.
Anthropic signs a massive $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud computing deal with Akamai Technologies as the AI company races to meet surging demand for its artificial intelligence software.
GitHub slashes AI token costs by up to 79% using two new daily automation tools — a Token Usage Auditor and Token Optimizer — that identify inefficiencies and streamline agentic workflows across production repositories.