AI Infrastructure

AI startup Lindy replaced Anthropic's Claude with Deepseek, a Chinese model hosted in the US, saving millions as AI costs became unsustainable. CEO Flo Crivello said the cost curve 'crashed to the ground' and that switch…

Chip stocks fell Friday after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, reversing a brief rally fueled by Micron's strong earnings and Qualcomm's data center ann…

Valve launched the Steam Machine at over $1,000, a price driven by soaring component costs and supply constraints, while Microsoft and Sony face even greater pressure as their next-generation consoles approach. Valve's n…

Cohere's new Compass embedding model addresses the limitations of standard single-vector embeddings in enterprise RAG systems by preserving the structure of multi-aspect data. Instead of compressing documents into single…

Arcium, a Solana-based confidential computing network, unveiled Blackthorn, an infrastructure layer that encrypts data on standard Nvidia GPUs using multi-party computation. The software-only upgrade expands the confiden…

A multi-agent AI setup that routes simple tasks to cheap models and complex reasoning to expensive ones can slash costs by up to 86%, as demonstrated by a workload that dropped from $10,500 to $1,500 per month. The price…

An indie maker spent 90 days building an affiliate revenue channel around AI APIs, earning $3 in the first month but seeing real recurring revenue by month two. The developer, who runs three bootstrapped SaaS products an…

European leaders and tech executives at Vivatech expressed frustration over being left out of the US-China AI arms race and are pushing for AI sovereignty, with France and Germany leading efforts to build independent AI …

Major tech companies including Anthropic, Meta, Google, Clearview AI, Apple, Amazon, and OpenAI have collectively paid or owe $3.5 billion in AI-related fines and settlements from 2022 to 2026, according to a Surfshark a…

Singapore's Kuok Group plans a €5.3 billion hyperscale data center campus near Milan, Italy, delivering 300 MW of capacity as part of a broader European AI infrastructure buildout. The project, disclosed by Italian Indus…

The AI data center boom is driving a third wave of inflation, increasing consumer prices through surging demand for semiconductors and components, with wholesale electronic components up 27% year-over-year. Analysts warn…

A broad tech selloff on Wall Street, driven by investor skepticism over AI spending profitability, dragged Bitcoin to $58K and pushed the Crypto Fear & Greed Index to 13, signaling extreme fear. The Nasdaq fell 2% and th…

Cara, an AI-native solution built on AWS, automates back-office processes for enterprise insurance brokerages, addressing manual workflows and talent shortages. The platform uses Amazon EKS for orchestration and Amazon B…

Lenovo reported record results for fiscal year 2025/2026, citing strengthened leadership in Hybrid AI and positioning to seize the AI democratization opportunity for growth and shareholder value.

Onsemi acquires Synaptics in a $7 billion all-stock deal to expand into edge AI computing and wireless connectivity, positioning itself for the physical AI market. The acquisition combines Synaptics' human-machine interf…

Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system on Amazon Bedrock that reduced financial compliance review handling time by 26% while maintaining human oversight. The system processes $1.4 trillion in annual payment volu…

PgEdge introduced ColdFront, a PostgreSQL-native hot-and-cold data tiering architecture that automatically moves older data into Apache Iceberg object storage while keeping PostgreSQL as the primary database interface. T…

The Saline Township board in Michigan approved a $16 billion data center for Oracle and OpenAI after being sued by developer Related Digital, which claimed exclusionary zoning. The 1.4-gigawatt facility, part of the Star…

At the Cannes Lions festival, executives from Deloitte, AWS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment urged media and entertainment leaders to embrace AI by tackling hard problems, upskilling employees, and rethinking workflows. …

Micron's chief business officer Sumit Sadana told the Wall Street Journal that aggressive pricing demands from certain customers during the 2022-2023 DRAM downturn suppressed investment, contributing to the current memor…