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Broadcom is reportedly negotiating with lenders over an AI-chip financing structure that remains under development. Under the proposal, a special-purpose vehicle would issue between $60 billion and $70 billion of senior secured debt, with Broadcom discussing a guarantee for part of that tranche.
Anthropic is preparing for a potential initial public offering filing as soon as the end of August, according to reports citing people familiar with the preparations. Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao was reported to have led recent investor briefings, but no filing was included in the supplied source material.
SharonAI Holdings disclosed in an SEC-filed press release that a global technology customer with a major Asia-Pacific presence accepted an initial AI-cloud deployment. The acceptance completed a milestone under a five-year infrastructure agreement with an initial total contract value of approximately $950 million and triggered the release of cash security held in escrow.
Micron announced Micron Research Labs as a U.S.-based, long-horizon research institution headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The company plans to support the organization with a $10 billion investment over the next decade.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing lowered the minimum market-capitalization threshold for companies using weighted voting rights, a structure under which some shareholders hold greater voting power than others. The standard threshold was reduced from HK$40 billion to HK$20 billion.
Waymo said its custom application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, has been installed in its newest-generation robotaxi. An ASIC is a chip designed for a defined workload rather than the broad range of tasks handled by a general-purpose processor.
Micron Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Mehrotra said purchasing demand from data-center customers is approximately 50% greater than the volume the company can commit to supply. The comparison concerns customer requests against committed Micron supply, not a statement that Micron’s total manufacturing capacity is 50% below overall market demand.
Reports said SK hynix was considering Miyagi Prefecture for a memory-chip manufacturing facility. The proposed project was described as potentially representing the South Korean chipmaker’s first major manufacturing investment in Japan.
Cornelis Networks and NEC Corporation announced an expanded collaboration covering artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure in Japan. The companies said organizations would use Cornelis high-performance networking solutions in these deployments.
Duke Energy’s resource plan for its North Carolina and South Carolina service territories targets 18.5 gigawatts of new solar generation by 2041. This is planned generation capacity, not current operating output or a statement that all projects have already received approval.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a Southwest Power Pool plan to use topology optimization to reduce grid congestion. Topology optimization changes the configuration of existing transmission elements rather than referring to the construction of a new generating plant or data center.
Texas grid and utility-regulatory executives appeared before the Texas House State Affairs Committee to discuss the need for additional transmission lines in West Texas. The hearing addressed rising power demand in the region as both oil and gas producers and technology companies pursue greater electricity use.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia plans to construct new nuclear power plants. The program includes small modular reactor projects, which use reactor units smaller than conventional large nuclear generating units.
BBT Group launched a data center at Caritas Hospital in Bad Mergentheim, Germany. The facility has a stated capacity of 78 kilowatts.
SharonAI said it has secured 212 megawatts of AI Factory capacity. Of that total, 120 megawatts is contracted under multi-year take-or-pay agreements, which require payment under agreed contractual terms rather than representing uncontracted pipeline capacity.
Google introduced a preview four-level tree architecture for the ScaNN index in AlloyDB, its fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service. Google said the architecture enables the index to operate efficiently at a scale of 10 billion vectors and supports datasets above that level.
Cloudera announced native NVIDIA graphics processing unit acceleration for Apache Spark 4.1 within Cloudera Data Engineering. The integration uses cuDF, a CUDA-X library for GPU-accelerated dataframe processing.
The University of California, Los Angeles is leading iDLab, a national initiative intended to create a unified environment for research computing, scientific data and applications. The environment will span several national computing centers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and two cloud platforms.
Google made Antigravity available as part of eligible Gemini Enterprise application subscriptions, including Standard, Plus and Standard Emerging Market licenses. Administrators can enable Antigravity and Android Studio for eligible users through the Gemini Enterprise administrative environment, while new extensions support development environments including Visual Studio Code.
Unitree Robotics Chairman, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer Wang Xingxing described the company’s work on “physical AI robot self-evolution” (物理 AI 机器人自进化) at the 2026 World Robot Conference. He said AI models currently represent Unitree’s largest area of investment in both funding and personnel.
The U.S. Department of Energy selected a project led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for funding through the department’s Genesis Mission. Fermilab will work with partners from other national laboratories, universities and industry.
