AI data center startup Fluidstack is seeking $1 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in months, driven by a landmark $50 billion deal with Anthropic to build custom AI data centers across the U.S.
Microsoft secures 30,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs at a 230 MW Arctic data center in Narvik, Norway, swooping in after OpenAI's Stargate negotiations collapse, expanding its $6.2 billion campus commitment while powering European AI with zero-carbon hydroelectric energy.
Meta locks in a massive multi-gigawatt AI chip deal with Broadcom through 2029, deploying cutting-edge 2-nanometer MTIA silicon as part of a staggering $135 billion infrastructure push that also spans partnerships with Nvidia, AMD, and Arm Holdings.
A perfect storm of surging AI token demand, a 48% spike in GPU costs, and war-driven semiconductor supply chain disruptions are pushing the AI industry to a breaking point, with OpenAI's token demand exploding from 6 million to 15 billion per minute and Anthropic restricting access to its latest model.
Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, allowing users to save and reuse AI prompts as one-click tools within Gemini, with customizable workflows, a pre-built library, and multi-tab functionality for tasks like calculations, comparisons, and document scanning.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Routines in research preview, letting developers automate tasks on a schedule, via API calls, or in response to GitHub events — all running on Claude's cloud infrastructure and available now for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
AI training compute has exploded 1 trillion times since 2010, while deployment costs have collapsed 900x annually, and with global capacity forecast to hit 100 million H100-equivalents by 2027, human-level autonomous AI agents capable of handling complex, multi-week tasks are rapidly approaching reality.
OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer reveals an aggressive internal strategy to dominate enterprise AI, directly targeting rival Anthropic by accusing it of inflating revenue figures and making critical compute mistakes, while doubling down on five priorities including agent platforms, Amazon partnerships, and a unified AI-native stack.
OpenAI is going on the offensive in the enterprise AI war, blasting Microsoft for limiting its reach, partnering with AWS to accelerate growth, and accusing rival Anthropic of inflating its $30 billion revenue run-rate by $8 billion, as OpenAI fights to close the gap in enterprise adoption where Claude currently …
SoftBank launches a new AI unit in Japan, backed by eight major corporate investors including NEC and Honda Motor, signaling a major push to develop homegrown artificial intelligence infrastructure across the country.