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Local opposition groups to US data center projects surged to 430 from 76 since 2025, with opponents blocking or delaying at least 75 projects worth $130 billion in early 2026, as community acceptance emerges as a new bar…
Containerization is moving custom AI decisioning models into SSP environments, reshaping the programmatic supply chain by enabling real-time decisioning on every available impression. At Cannes Lions 2026, inPowered AI a…
Oracle president Mark Hura told the RAISE Summit in Paris that enterprises should focus on business outcomes rather than AI models, arguing that proprietary data—not the model—provides competitive advantage. He cited exa…
Micron announced billions in new U.S. chipmaking investments to boost the domestic semiconductor supply chain, and its shares rose 7%.
A rare bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was found in wastewater discharged by a contractor for Meta's $800 million AI data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, prompting the city to permanently revoke Meta's wastewater discharge…
Zep has introduced Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for its API keys, allowing developers to attach policies that restrict which endpoints and graph data each key can access. The feature aims to limit the blast radi…
China is allowing select AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to buy Nvidia's H200 chips after a year-long ban, as a stopgap to ease training bottlenecks while domestic chipmakers like Huawei and Cambr…
TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion in debt to build the Justified Data Campus in Kentucky, a massive AI computing hub with potential capacity exceeding 1 GW. The company signed a 20-year lease with Anthro…
Marathon Digital Holdings announced a milestone-based deal to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, for up to $600 million to build a digital infrastructure campus targeting 2 gigawatts of po…
Canonical's MAAS and Landscape tools together provide cloud-like automation for provisioning, patching, monitoring, and lifecycle management of Ubuntu on bare metal at scale, addressing the operational gap between Day 0 …
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and Rubrik investing $5…
Amazon returned to the US bond market seeking at least $25 billion to fund AI spending, with initial orders peaking near $62 billion before settling near 1.6 times the deal size. The multi-tranche offering comes as Amazo…
Micron stock surged up to 9% after the memory-chip maker announced an additional $50 billion in US chipmaking spending, bringing its total planned investment through 2035 to $250 billion. The move, praised by the Trump a…
Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, and engineers to train…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-model runner now serves nearly 9 million monthly developers. The company plans to use the funds…
Microsoft Entra ID introduces Conditional Access policies for AI agent identities, enabling organizations to enforce governance based on agent classification and custom security attributes. The approach distinguishes bet…
Microsoft Entra ID custom security attributes can serve as a governance metadata layer for AI agents, enabling attribute-driven policies instead of manual per-agent management. By defining attributes like ApprovalStatus,…
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom inference chip, on June 24, targeting 50% lower cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. The ASIC, built in nine months at TSMC's 3nm node, will not reach production u…
Token pricing for AI models faces a supply crunch and instability, with analysts debating whether foundation models will achieve sustainable pricing power or become low-margin commodity infrastructure. The market is driv…
Lithuanian data infrastructure firm Oxylabs raised $130 million from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6 billion valuation, its first outside investment since 2015. The company, which provides web data gathering tools for AI agents…