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Velaura AI announced that it raised $110 million in Series A financing and that the round brought its valuation to more than $1 billion. The company describes itself as an AI-compute infrastructure developer working on ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies.
Anthropic’s planned revolving credit facility is expected to exceed its approximately $10 billion target, according to reports citing people familiar with the financing. The facility was still being arranged, so the reported size represents an expected credit commitment rather than funded borrowing or cash already drawn by Anthropic.
ByteDance (字节跳动) received more than $30 billion of lender orders for a jumbo bank loan, according to a report citing sources. The figure measures lender demand or orders and does not establish how much ByteDance ultimately borrowed.
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2007 during the week. One market update reported that the yield touched 5.34% intraday before partially retreating, amid elevated oil prices, geopolitical concerns, inflation worries, and government-debt concerns.
Cerebras announced the CS-4 as a new AI accelerator system built with three WSE-3 Turbo wafer-scale engines. The company specified aggregate AI compute performance of 750 petaflops, or PFLOPS, and memory bandwidth of 129.6 petabytes per second, or PB/s.
Cerebras said CS-4 generated more than 4,400 tokens per user per second in a GPT-OSS-120B test. The company also claimed performance as high as 30 times that of graphics processing unit-based inference systems.
Avicena began shipping 1-terabit-per-second LightBundle evaluation kits to customers and partners developing next-generation AI infrastructure. These are evaluation kits intended for technical assessment, not an announcement of full-volume production deployment.
Coherent began sampling 300-millimeter high-thermal-conductivity silicon carbide, or SiC, substrates to leading AI-semiconductor partners. The announced stage is customer sampling rather than confirmed high-volume production or completed customer qualification.
MLCommons released MLPerf Client v2.0, expanding its benchmark suite for measuring AI performance on personal computers. MLCommons is an open engineering consortium focused on machine-learning performance and transparency.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council proposed adding 11 gigawatts of generation and 5 gigawatts of storage by 2032. The portfolio forms part of the council’s proposed Ninth Power Plan.
TerraPower expects to announce its next nuclear project during 2026, with the plant planned to serve a data center. Chief Executive Officer Chris Levesque said the company is targeting a 2027 groundbreaking for the second project.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro issued an executive order imposing new requirements on data-center development. Projects must obtain local-government approval before seeking state permits and must comply with water-conservation standards.
State Grid and China Southern Power Grid signed the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement on Implementing the 15th Five-Year Plan and Accelerating New Power-Grid Construction (《落实“十五五”规划 加快新型电网建设战略合作框架协议》). The agreement followed an August 18 meeting between the two grid operators.
Amazon announced plans to increase its Louisiana data-center investment from $12 billion to $18 billion. The expansion includes construction of a third data-center campus in the state.
China Unicom reported intelligent-computing capacity of more than 45 exa floating-point operations per second, or EFLOPS, during its half-year results briefing. The source does not state the numerical precision used for that capacity figure or identify the accelerator and server mix behind it.
The Anhui provincial government issued implementation guidance calling for coordinated development of computing clusters and edge-computing resources. It plans a unified scheduling platform integrating quantum computing (量算), general-purpose computing (通算), intelligent computing (智算), and supercomputing (超算).
Google’s Governance Agent project is built on Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog, BigQuery, and column-level lineage. It uses lineage records to determine where a downstream column originated and then carries existing governance metadata forward instead of requiring people to recreate it manually.
OpenAI said it immediately paused frontier-model inference tasks capable of executing code in its research cluster following the Hugging Face incident. It also slowed frontier scaling and paused reinforcement-learning training for its latest deployed model for two weeks.
Mandiant said its Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness, or AVDH, found more than 100 true-positive critical vulnerabilities in two days during a recent incident-response investigation involving stolen corporate repositories. The company said the work took a fraction of the time required for a manual review.
Box and Google Cloud are integrating Gemini Multimodal Embeddings 2 into Box’s Agentic Platform. The technology places text, raster images, document pages, rendered spreadsheet tables, and visual charts in a unified multimodal vector space.
