AI companies have committed approximately $9.75 billion over 12 months to forward-deployed engineering (FDE), embedding engineers inside customers to deploy AI. FDE job postings surged 42x from 2023 t…
Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in Series D funding, doubling its valuation to $8 billion, to expand manufacturing and invest in AI-driven autonomous defense systems. The round, co-led by Blacksto…
A Bitcoin Policy Institute report found that a nonprofit network linked to the Chinese Communist Party has blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI data center projects across 14 U.S. states, including …
British-founded startup Build raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Index Ventures to automate the due-diligence paperwork for data centres and other infrastructure projects. The company claims its AI p…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment on June 30, 2026 to create a Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will embed thousands of its engineers inside customer companies to help build …
Ancestry has spent 42 years digitizing 71 billion family records from 88 countries, a process that was slow and costly. Since 2014, the company has used AI, including machine learning and natural lang…
Jon and Mindy Gray donated $55 million to create the Basser Cancer Interception Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, which will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to detect and interce…
Digital Realty agreed to buy Blackstone's majority stake in three fully leased Virginia data centres for $7.8 billion, paying $3.5 billion for a 64% equity interest. The deal underscores surging deman…
Blackstone is preparing a Singapore REIT listing for AirTrunk that could raise more than $1 billion, aiming to cash in on AI infrastructure demand without selling the entire asset. The deal, which cou…
AirTrunk, the Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, is nearing a confidential IPO filing for a real estate investment trust in Singapore, targeting a raise of $1 billion to $1.2 billion. …
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory in Batam, Indonesia, with up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips. The c…
Alphabet is expanding its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business through a $5 billion joint venture with Blackstone to build 500 MW of TPU compute capacity by 2027, as Google Cloud revenue is projected…
Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in AI data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, betting on demand despite warnings of overcapacity. The firm's president Jonathan Gray arg…
City law firm Shoosmiths launched a generative AI tool built with Microsoft to assist junior lawyers in reviewing contracts. The tool, known as Project Apollo, is trained on insights from Shoosmiths l…
Google is using Nvidia's own tactics—financial guarantees and circular financing—to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips. The Wall Street Journal reports Google has provided a $3.2bn guarantee for…
Blackstone-owned data center operator AirTrunk is seeking a A$4.3bn ($3bn) loan to build a single hyperscale facility in Sydney, highlighting the massive capital and power demands of AI infrastructure…
AirTrunk, the Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, is negotiating with banks for a $3 billion loan to fund a new data center project in Australia. The deal underscores the capital-intens…
JPMorgan raised its price target on Broadcom stock to $580, implying over 46% upside, citing the company's dominance in AI chips and accelerating AI revenue growth past 200% year-over-year. The bank r…
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) committed up to ₹70 billion ($741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, acquiring an 8.2% stake and forming a joint venture to develop h…
Factory AI, a San Francisco startup building autonomous AI agents for software development, raised $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. Khosla Ventures led the round, with par…