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Georgia Power secures a 12-day extension to negotiate its contract with OpenAI for a $20B data center in Effingham County.
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Georgia Power secures a 12-day extension to negotiate its contract with OpenAI for a $20B data center in Effingham County.

Mistral raises $830M to expand European AI infrastructure, targeting 200MW capacity by 2027 and opening its platform to third-party models.

Anthropic is in talks to acquire AI infrastructure startup Decart for $6B, a move that could reshape the AI landscape.

OpenAI's $20B Project Camellia data center in Georgia to create 1,000 jobs with average salaries of $80,000.

Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, and others for a $500B AI infrastructure funding package, reshaping the AI financing landscape.

Riot Platforms secures a $9.1B, 20-year deal with Anthropic for AI computing resources, signaling a shift in the bitcoin mining industry.

Anthropic PBC has signed a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot Platforms Inc. for cloud computing services.

Anthropic, Macquarie, and GIC form a $1.5B venture to build AI data centers for Claude, aiming to expand its infrastructure.

Source Foundry raises $400M to challenge ASML in AI chip manufacturing, highlighting investor interest in semiconductor infrastructure.

Two LA startups secure $2.37B to build factories and nuclear reactors for AI's power and hardware needs.

OpenAI's $20B Georgia data center must clear 12 rigorous steps, promising $37M yearly for local schools and potential tax relief.

Firmus, an Australian AI data centre startup, raises $2.85B in 12 months, now valued at $15B.

Lumilens, an AI infrastructure startup, raises $700M in Series C funding to scale its optical interconnect technology for AI data centers.

Elon Musk's xAI raises $20B in Series E funding, expanding its AI infrastructure and product lineup with Grok 4.5 and Colossus.

Menlo Ventures raises $3B for AI startups, backing Anthropic, Suno, and infrastructure companies like OpenRouter and Fireworks.

Google backs Anthropic's $15B Texas AI data center, supplying chips and potentially taking an equity stake in the AI startup.

OpenAI plans a $20B data center in Georgia, but residents and officials question the impact on local resources.

Ropedia, an AI infrastructure startup, raised $22M in its Pre-Series A round, leading Asia's startup funding this week.

OpenAI plans a $30B+ data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW energy capacity by 2032 to support AI infrastructure demands.

Nvidia reportedly in talks to finance $600B for OpenAI's AI infrastructure, potentially reshaping the AI ecosystem.

Nvidia is in talks to provide $250B in financing for OpenAI's massive Ohio data center project, reports WSJ.

AMD partners with Anthropic to deploy 2GW of MI450 AI accelerators, investing $5B to power Claude models and challenge Nvidia.

Microsoft and Mistral AI expand partnership with a multi-billion-dollar investment in sovereign cloud for European enterprises.

Anthropic's $965B valuation and other AI funding rounds of $100M+ tracked weekly from first-party sources.

President Lee Jae Myung urges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to expand investment in South Korea's AI infrastructure.

AMD launches Helios, a 2.9 exaFLOPS AI infrastructure solution, with major deployments from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Embedded LLM unveils TokenVisor Spaces, enabling governed agentic AI services on AMD infrastructure for enterprises and AI clouds.

Lenovo launches Legion R9000P with TCL CSOT's OLED display, stock up 145% in a year, potentially undervalued.

Anthropic brings in Teresa Carlson, former AWS public sector leader, to spearhead its federal market strategy and secure major government contracts.

AMD invests up to $5B in Anthropic, deploying 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs for AI model training.

Microsoft and Mistral expand partnership, integrating Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.

Infinity, an AI infrastructure startup, raises $15M to build CUDA-alternative software for AI chips, backed by Touring Capital and researchers from OpenAI an...

Fireworks AI, an AI platform for open-source models, raises $1.5B, bringing its total equity funding to $1.8B.

Meta is reportedly in early talks to lease AI computing capacity to Anthropic for up to $10B, diversifying its revenue streams.

Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are among the key players as global AI spending surpasses $2.5 trillion in 2026, reshaping markets worldwide.

Anthropic now includes Claude Fable 5 access for Max and Team Premium users, amid infrastructure expansion and competition with OpenAI.

OpenAI promotes Uday Ruddaraju to CTO of Compute, overseeing infrastructure for models like GPT-5.6.

Think raises $8M pre-seed to build AI infrastructure platform, marking the largest round in MENA's AI sector.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares a 4-question framework to assess AI's economic value, emphasizing 'useful intelligence per dollar'.

Anthropic explores a $10B deal with Meta for AI compute power, following a similar agreement with SpaceX.

ASML boosts 2026 revenue guidance to €43-45B, driven by AI infrastructure spending and 45% EUV growth.