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NVIDIA signed memoranda of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR. The proposed partnerships remain subject to definitive agreements, so the targeted capital is not a closed financing commitment.
Intel Corporation, listed on Nasdaq under INTC, announced a proposed $15 billion underwritten public offering of common stock. The announcement described the transaction as proposed, meaning the source did not establish that the offering had priced or closed.
CoreWeave announced the closing of a $2.6 billion delayed-draw term-loan financing. A delayed-draw structure allows borrowing under the facility according to its agreed draw conditions rather than requiring all proceeds to be funded at announcement.
Nasdaq-listed SAIHEAT Limited, trading under SAIH, entered into a definitive merger agreement with Santa Clara-based AI inference and GPU-cloud company Canopy Wave. The agreement is signed but has not yet closed; completion remains subject to required approvals and other closing conditions.
Television Broadcasts Limited’s group, commonly known as TVB, announced a proposal to establish a joint venture with Gaw Capital to provide computing-power services. The proposal represents a diversification into compute services rather than a disclosed operating result.
Microsoft plans to unveil its next-generation Maia 300 internally developed AI accelerator as early as September, according to reporting attributed to The Information. The report described the effort as recovering after a slow start.
Sony Group and TSMC plan to invest ¥1 trillion in a Kumamoto production facility, according to reports attributed to Nikkei. The disclosed amount concerns next-generation imaging-sensor production rather than general-purpose logic or AI-accelerator manufacturing.
Researchers from Google and Delft University of Technology published a technical paper titled “Innovative FA Hardware Solution to Enable System-Level Debug of 3D ICs.” FA refers to failure analysis, while 3D ICs are three-dimensional integrated circuits.
Pasqal announced that it had trapped individual atoms using laser light generated by a photonic integrated circuit, or PIC. The work was completed with Aeponyx, a Pasqal subsidiary.
Anthropic, Macquarie Asset Management, and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC established Theseus Infrastructure as a data-center development, operation, and leasing platform. Its initial geographic focus is the United States, and the facilities are intended to support Anthropic’s computing-capacity requirements.
The joint venture between PPL and Blackstone secured 5 gigawatts of gas-turbine capacity for data-center projects in Pennsylvania. The figure refers to generation equipment capacity rather than data-center IT load, accelerator capacity, or completed electricity production.
Siemens reported that its gas-turbine order backlog was approaching 70 gigawatts. The company booked 15 gigawatts of new gas-turbine orders during the quarter.
Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant began increasing the output of Unit 2 on Aug. 10 after Danube River water levels rose and cooling-water conditions improved. The action was a restoration of reactor output rather than the startup of a newly constructed generating unit.
Rackspace Technology, listed on Nasdaq under RXT, disclosed a definitive GPU-as-a-Service master agreement with AMD. The agreement creates a framework for phased deployments of AMD Instinct accelerators—including MI355X, MI350P, and future successors—and AMD EPYC central processing units in Rackspace data centers.
RUM Group reported approximately 85% utilization across Quake AI’s existing graphics-processing-unit estate during the quarter. Quake AI became the company’s cloud and AI-infrastructure business following the June 17 closing of Rumble’s acquisition of approximately 85% of Northern Data’s outstanding shares and the renaming of the parent as RUM Group.
More than 50,000 domestically produced AI-compute chips have reportedly been activated for Zhipu AI (智谱) to address increasing inference demand. The source separately noted market reports from July 21 that Zhipu had built 1 gigawatt of domestic AI-compute infrastructure, but that capacity claim was presented as market information rather than an official confirmation.
Google Cloud launched Developer Device Platform, or DDP, in public preview as a fully managed environment for testing mobile applications. It provides on-demand access to multiple hardware profiles across physical devices and high-concurrency virtual emulators and represents an evolution of Firebase Test Lab for cloud developers.
Meta released Muse Glimmer as a 30-billion-parameter dense model. “Open-weight” means the model’s trained weights are being made available under the release’s applicable terms, while “dense” indicates that its parameters are not described as a mixture-of-experts architecture.
The U.S. Department of Energy launched an initiative to produce open-weight foundation models designed specifically to accelerate scientific discovery. The effort forms part of the department’s broader Genesis Mission.
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program and introduced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model designed for advanced, authorized cybersecurity work. Access to its higher-risk capabilities is limited to approved users and includes additional controls and monitoring.
