Akamai Plans $5.5bn Build-out for $11.6bn Anthropic Cloud Deal
Akamai is taking on the early financial risk of its expanded $11.6 billion cloud agreement with Anthropic. It plans to…
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Texas Makes It Cheaper for Data Centers to Tie up the Grid
Texas has adopted softer terms for companies seeking data-center-scale grid connections: the state removed a proposed $50,000-per-megawatt nonrefundable fee, set…
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Your Search Click Is the Input AI Wants to Eliminate
Microsoft’s own internal material says its AI-answer strategy can create a “doom loop”: publisher work feeds the models, the models…
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AI’s Battery Backup Still Leaves Your Air With 69 Gas Turbines
Satellite imagery from July 11 showed 720 Tesla Megapack containers at SpaceXAI’s Colossus 2 campus in Memphis, an AI data-center…
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China’s Professionals Are Moonlighting for Their Replacements
Chinese AI platforms are paying teachers, engineers, architects, writers and other professionals to turn their real work into model-training examples,…
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Your Free AI Tokens Come With a Mystery Tab
Chinese banks, telecoms, cafés and restaurants are attaching AI-model credits to ordinary purchases, turning card swipes, phone plans and meals…
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China-Linked Bots Didn’t Create America’s Data-Center Revolt
OpenAI said it banned a likely China-origin influence operation in June 2026 that posed as Americans on X and used…
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Nvidia Told Major Customers AI Systems Will Cost 15% More
Nvidia has reportedly told some of its biggest customers that AI-chip systems using Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell will cost…
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Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Plan Is a Financing Target, Not a Fund
Nvidia is reportedly assembling a $500 billion AI-infrastructure financing effort, not launching a publicly documented $500 billion committed fund. CNBC…
