
👀In Case You Missed It
Meta plots a $600B U.S. data-centre spree by 2028, marking one of the largest private infrastructure builds in history and underscoring how AI compute demand is reshaping U.S. energy and land policy.
EU to grant a one-year grace period under the AI Act, softening high-risk and transparency enforcement to give enterprises breathing room as Brussels balances regulation with adoption.
SoftBank sells its entire $5.8B Nvidia stake to fund massive OpenAI investments, signalling a pivot from chips to AI services as Vision Fund readies a new wave of deployments.
Washington intensifies scrutiny of AI power use, linking grid strain and rising electricity prices to hyperscaler expansion — power planning is now central to AI strategy.
Deep Green expands to the U.S. with a 24 MW Michigan data centre powered by heat-recycling systems, showcasing how sustainable compute is becoming a competitive differentiator.
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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
Google rolls out Private AI Compute (on-device–grade privacy with cloud assist) alongside a Pixel drop of AI features and notification summaries.
Read MoreGoogle Maps adds an agentic builder for interactive projects; Gemini lands on Google TV Streamer for natural-voice content access.
Read MoreCoreWeave: revenue more than doubled but outlook hit by a DC provider delay; capex reshuffled and shares fell.
Read MoreSilicon Valley DCs sitting idle waiting for power interconnects (grid bottlenecks rising).
Read MoreGoogle to invest €5.5bn into German DCs/offices; Switch deploys Oxide racks for its internal cloud
Read MoreGoogle unveiled Private AI Compute (its “private cloud for AI” architecture) to keep sensitive Pixel/Gemini workloads on hardened, enclave-style cloud infra with on-device–level privacy guarantees.
Read MoreCoreWeave reported revenue more than doubling on AI demand (but issued a softer outlook amid DC delays)—a useful barometer for third-party GPU capacity markets.
Read MoreThe global data-centre & AI build-out is projected to cost >$5–7 trillion, marking a massive ongoing capital-markets event.
Read MoreNTT Data Group eyes building data centres in Saudi Arabia to ride the AI momentum in the Gulf region.
Read MoreAnalysts estimate hyperscalers will need ~$1.5 trillion in investment-grade bonds just over the next five years to fund DC build-out.
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💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
Intel CTO/AI chief departs for OpenAI; CEO now directly oversees AI—talent reshuffle amid hyperscale chip race.
Read MoreAMD guides for 60% DC revenue growth over 3–5 years; CEO sees a $1T DC chip market by 2030.
Read MoreFoxconn profit +17% on AI demand; U.S. restrictions continue to bite China’s chip market.
Read MoreTsavorite (AI chip start-up) secures $100m+ in pre-orders for its “OPU”.
Read MoreResearchers separate memorisation vs reasoning circuits in neural nets—implications for model design and eval.
Read MoreYann LeCun is reportedly set to leave Meta to start an AI venture focused on world-model research—an R&D brain-drain signal that could reshuffle frontier model roadmaps.
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