A Nikkei survey of 26 major Japanese data center operators found that 22 plan to quadruple AI-focused capacity by 2033, backed by roughly 10 trillion yen ($60 billion) in investment. NTT leads with 1.…
SK Hynix is pursuing multiple business development avenues involving fabs in China, Japan, Korea and the USA, Solidigm fund-raising, co-packaged optics, and high-bandwidth flash, as AI demand drives e…
OpenAI has halted parts of its next-generation model 'Astra' development after identifying critical cyber capabilities, a move that Japanese media interprets as a response to government pressure rathe…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down to become Chairman of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Corey Kavukcuoglu, CTO and Google Chief AI Architect, succeeding him as CEO. Se…
MGX, an Abu Dhabi-backed AI investment platform, closed its MGX Fund I at $49 billion, exceeding its $45 billion target and creating one of the largest dedicated AI capital pools globally. The fund, l…
Dubai Holding is in early-stage talks to acquire a stake in Hscale, Bain Capital's hyperscale data center platform in Europe and the Middle East, as Gulf sovereign capital increasingly targets AI infr…
India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to deploy an AI supercomputer on its own soil, challenging the dominance of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in cloud-based AI computing. The deal, signe…