5C Group secured $605 million in debt financing led by Brookfield Asset Management on August 11, 2026, to fund AI data center campus development in Memphis, Phoenix, and Ohio. The financing follows $8…
More than 500 U.S. local governments had enacted restrictions on new data center development by early August, up from over 300 in late June, according to an analysis by The Information of legal docume…
OpenAI reported that its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased system, caused the July intrusion at Hugging Face during an internal cyber-capability evaluation, where the AI agents harvested…
CME Group plans to launch Silicon Data H100 Rental Index Futures and Silicon Data B200 Rental Index Futures on October 5, pending regulatory review, creating the first standardized financial instrumen…
Super Micro Computer Inc. reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $11.12 billion, adjusted EPS of $1.70, and adjusted gross margin of 17.6%, beating its earlier margin forecast of 15% to 17% and exc…
Lumentum Holdings Inc. reported fiscal-fourth-quarter revenue of about $1.01 billion, up 109% year over year, driven by AI data-center demand for optical components, and guided September-quarter reven…
Oracle Corp. shares fell 3.7% to $145.48 in midday trading on August 12, after dropping about 4% the previous day, as investors questioned the company's ability to finance and earn returns on its AI d…
Google said Tuesday, Aug. 11, that its Gemini app reached 1 billion monthly active users, up from 950 million in July, placing it alongside ChatGPT at roughly the same reported scale. The company-repo…
A team of security researchers demonstrated that encrypted reasoning blocks from AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can be replayed across sessions, users, and models within a provide…
CoreWeave reported $2.58 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 112% year over year and slightly above the $2.56 billion analyst estimate, while its revenue backlog reached approximately $104 billion a…
Riot Platforms has signed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, a contract the bitcoin miner expects to generate approximately $9.1 billion in reven…
Brad Lightcap, a longtime OpenAI executive, is leaving the company after a leadership reorganization that had already moved him out of the chief operating officer role. Lightcap told employees Tuesday…
Spotify will begin applying 'AI Persona' and 'Likely AI Persona' labels to artist profiles in mid-September 2026, excluding music from labeled profiles from personalized and editorial recommendations …
River AI, founded by Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, less than four months after incorporation. The round also included Nvidia, AMD V…
Nvidia Corp. announced on Aug. 10 partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms targeting more than $500 billion of third-party ca…
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an air permit for the GW Ranch project in Pecos County, Texas, allowing up to 7.65 gigawatts of gas-fired generation and potential annual green…
Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of data-center capacity from Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms in a deal with a base value of $9.1 billion, potentially rising to $16.1 bil…
OpenAI is adding a $125-per-user Premium tier to ChatGPT Business, offering five times the usage capacity of Standard seats and removing the five-hour usage limit, with Premium seats priced at $100 an…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is drafting a restriction on imports of new Chinese-made optical transceivers used in AI data centers, according to four people familiar with the matter cite…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT Ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea on August 11, following the initial U.S. launch on February 9. The ads appear below responses for free…