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Blue, yellow and green: Google invests in its first data center in Sweden.

Today, we broke ground on a new data center in Horndal, Sweden, to help meet the growing demand for the Google services people and businesses use every day, including Se…

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

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Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings …

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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the...

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Delta Electronics unveils prefabricated AI modular data center that cuts deployment time by 60%

Delta Electronics said at COMPUTEX 2026 that it has launched a prefabricated AI modular data center designed to speed deployment of AI infrastructure by cutting IT build time by about 60%. The move underscores how vendors are racing to support global demand for denser, faster, and more power-efficient AI facilities.

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Anthropic grants Project Glasswing access to 150 more companies, with a focus on critical infrastructure

Anthropic on Tuesday announced that it was adding 150 more companies to its Project Glasswing AI-based vulnerability hunting initiative, with a particular focus on critical infrastructure companies including those involved in “power, water, healthcare, communications and hardware.” Analysts and security vendors...

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Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to backstop the largest portion of a record-setting microchip financing deal for Anthropic is keeping yields …

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Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg: Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds — A data center tied to CoreWeave Inc.

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Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the "next trillion-dollar company" at Computex (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)

Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.

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An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with "what was state of the art just a few months ago", refusing to use distillation, more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with “what was state of the art just a few months ago”, refusing to use distillation, more — THE SCENE — Not long ago, Microsoft leapt ahead of competitors by funding OpenAI when it was a fledgling research lab.

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Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool "to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption" (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff, a move meant to manage costs …

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Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners — SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center Plan in France — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 15.31% Playback Rate

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Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, NVIDIA, Manus, and Nous Research as partners (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code …

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Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by NVIDIA's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory — The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. … Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra …

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Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic evidence shows model competition shifting toward usable deployment surfaces, where inference, tooling, and reliability matter as much as releases.
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Anthropic has upgraded its model family with the release of Claude Opus 4.8, which is optimized for coding, long-running agentic tasks, and consistent professional workflows.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with enhanced performance in coding, agentic workflows, and long-running professional tasks.
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Anthropic has released its upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model for agentic and coding tasks while expanding its Project Glasswing security program to critical infrastructure organizations across fifteen countries.
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Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, marking a significant milestone in the public market evaluation of frontier artificial intelligence companies.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, introducing a performance upgrade to its model class with a focus on consistency for long-running workflows, coding, and agentic tasks.
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Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with improved performance for coding, agentic workflows, and the consistency needed to manage long-running professional tasks.
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Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling a major transition towards public capital markets for frontier AI developers.
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