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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) began seeking public input on futures contracts tied to computing capacity. The consultation asks how compute differs from commodities and derivatives already regulated by the agency.
Datavault AI Inc. filed an executed term sheet under which Scilex Holding Company would contribute $120 million in cash at the transaction’s closing. The filing describes the payment as conditional on closing, rather than as financing that had already been received.
ChronoScale Holdings Corp. reported that its board concluded on May 29, 2026, that the Legacy Ekso business met the accounting criteria to be classified as held for sale. The board committed to a divestiture plan intended to leave ChronoScale focused solely on its cloud business.
EigenQ, Inc., described as a quantum-technology company, and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. announced the confidential submission of a draft registration statement on Form S-4 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. is a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
Japan’s exports increased 23.2% year over year in July, exceeding the reported 19.9% consensus estimate and marking a fifth consecutive acceleration. The reported growth rate was the fastest since October 2022.
Fractile and Anthropic reached a preliminary agreement under which Fractile would sell approximately $250 million of AI chips to Anthropic. The chips are expected to enter use in 2027, and the parties reportedly plan to expand the scale of their relationship.
TFC Optical Communication said supporting products for co-packaged optics (CPO) had entered mass-production delivery. It reported that product yields were sufficient for scaled manufacturing and that it was preparing capacity around customer demand forecasts.
Dier Laser (帝尔激光) said its laser-modification equipment for through-glass vias (TGVs) continued to receive orders and generate revenue. It also reported that customers had begun placing bundled orders covering both laser-modification and etching equipment.
IBM announced that it had successfully joined and cooled two cryogenic modules in a single environment. Cryogenic modules maintain the ultra-low temperatures needed for the company’s quantum-computing hardware.
Itochu plans to enter data-center development by investing several hundred billion yen in approximately 10 Japanese facilities by 2030. Each planned data center is expected to provide around 50 megawatts of power capacity.
Hyperscale Data Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS) recorded a $2.3 million impairment charge for Bitcoin-mining equipment at its Michigan data center during the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. The accounting review followed execution of a master services agreement with a third-party customer for AI compute, neocloud hosting, and colocation services.
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) approved a project proposal titled Technical Specification for Data Center Microgrid Monitoring and Energy Management Systems (《数据中心微电网监控与能量管理系统技术规范》). The source describes it as the first IEC international-standard project focused on coordination between computing capacity and electricity systems.
The Compute-Power Coordination Technology Joint Research Institute (算电协同技术联合研究院) was inaugurated in Guangzhou on August 19. It was jointly established by the National Innovation Center for Advanced Energy Storage, China Southern Power Grid Research Institute, China Southern Power Grid Power Technology, Guangdong HEC Technology Holding, and Chindata.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced an extreme-weather event notice covering Thursday through the following Tuesday. ERCOT attributed the notice to forecasts of extreme heat.
ChronoScale reported 6,144 deployed NVIDIA H100 graphics processing units as of May 31, 2026. The GPUs operate in multiple clusters across Colorado, Minnesota, and Utah.
ChronoScale’s filing says its cloud business accounted for approximately 99.5% of total revenue for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2026. Together AI was the cloud business’s only customer at that date and used GPU capacity across all three ChronoScale colocation sites.
Biren Technology (壁仞科技) said its developer-cloud intelligent-computing cluster in Wenzhou had already been running for several months and was operating well. The cluster was formally presented at an August 18 event titled “Chips Gather at the Oujiang, Computing Starts the Future” (“芯聚瓯江·算启未来”).
xAI announced that Grok 4.6 had reached general availability on Amazon Bedrock. The status indicates that the model is available through Amazon’s managed cloud AI service rather than remaining in a limited preview.
OpenAI previewed Private Safety Processing, a system intended to strengthen safeguards while remaining compatible with zero data retention. It is designed to detect risk patterns spread across multiple interactions rather than examining only an isolated prompt and response.
SandboxAQ announced the general availability of AQPotency on Anthropic’s Claude through Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP provides the connection through which Claude can invoke the AQPotency capability.
MiniMax (稀宇科技) launched MiniMax Design, which it describes as a harness that turns multimodal-model capabilities into a production workflow. A user provides a creative request, after which the system interprets the goal and decomposes it into tasks.
