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SK Telecom and NVIDIA Build AI Infrastructure to Power Korea’s AI Innovation

NVIDIA and SK Telecom today announced that SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the NVIDIA DSX™ platform, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027.

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AI infrastructure capacity and cost are becoming core constraints for labs and enterprises scaling real workloads.

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NVIDIA and LG Group team up on AI factory, robotics, and autonomous driving in expansive Korea partnership

Nvidia and LG Group announced a wide-ranging partnership on June 7 covering AI factory infrastructure, home robotics, autonomous driving components, and sovereign AI model development, making it one of the broadest single-company collaborations Nvidia has announced during Jensen Huang's South Korea visit.

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France attracted over EUR110 billion in AI and data center pledges but delivery faces power and approval hurdles

France secured more than EUR110 billion (US$126.8 billion) in artificial intelligence and data center investment commitments at the recent Choose France summit, with the largest single pledge totaling EUR75 billion for three northern data centers, but officials and investors warned that grid constraints and...

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‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism

Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militants Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI ’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house,...

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The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the "No Data Center" signs going up that, "I've seen a lot of these all over town, but […]

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AI developers are expanding frontier models with specialized scientific capabilities, integrating biological reasoning, synthetic chemistry expertise, and biodefense workflows for vetted researchers and government partners.
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The transition of generative models into production is driving the formalization of enterprise partner networks and services tracks to assist organizations with integration and agentic workflow orchestration.
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AI developers and hyperscalers are scaling infrastructure footprints globally, investing in multi-gigawatt facilities and dedicated energy generation projects to support the computational demands of the intelligence industry.
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Developers are designing local agentic workflows around compact models, using structural constraints and smaller architectures to enable multi-agent simulations and computer-use automation on consumer-grade hardware.
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Enterprises are adopting specialized code-generation and workflow-automation models to redesign software delivery, automating task execution, defect remediation, and domain-specific operations across engineering organizations.
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AI developers are expanding cloud distribution channels, making frontier models and developer tools directly accessible through major cloud platforms to simplify enterprise procurement, integration, and security controls.
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Protests and community concerns over resource utilization are prompting developers to scale down proposed data center projects, highlighting the growing tension between rapid AI infrastructure expansion and local environmental impacts.
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Frontier AI developers are proposing federal governance blueprints, signing agreements to prevent biological weapon development, and implementing new defense features to protect sensitive enterprise data from prompt injection attacks.
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AI-linked equities are under pressure, with Arm Holdings plc -12.8%, Super Micro Computer -11.2%, Advanced Micro Devices -10.9% driving the tracked basket lower.

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SMCI -11.2%
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AMD -10.9%
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ORCL -9.59%
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ARM 12 hits · -12.8%
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AMD 12 hits · -10.9%
ORCL 12 hits · -9.59%