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Anthropic signed a reported $35 billion cloud-computing agreement with Lambda, an NVIDIA-backed cloud provider. The capacity will come from a data center under development by bitcoin miner and data-center developer Hut 8 in Nueces County, Texas.
Nscale closed approximately $3 billion in financing tied to two artificial-intelligence deployments. The identified locations are Ward County, Texas, and Madison County, North Carolina.
CollPlant Biotechnologies signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver, an Israeli deep-technology company developing a computing architecture based on lasers. The transaction is intended to bring CollPlant into the supercomputing and photonic-computing markets.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a “very large online search engine” under the European Union’s Digital Services Act. The designation places the service under the law’s stricter regulatory requirements.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the LUMI AI Factory consortium selected Bull to deliver LUMI-AI under a €387.8 million procurement contract. The system will be hosted at CSC – IT Center for Science’s data center in Kajaani, Finland.
ChangXin Memory Technologies, commonly known as CXMT, is producing High-Bandwidth Memory 3E, or HBM3E, according to reporting attributed to The Information. The development was characterized as a breakthrough in advanced memory chips.
Amazon Web Services made its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud R9g and R9gd instance families generally available. Both are powered by AWS Graviton5 central processing units.
MediaTek joined NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion ecosystem as the companies expanded their existing collaboration on edge-to-cloud AI computing platforms. NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang described the relationship as a major engineering alignment and MediaTek as one of NVIDIA’s largest partners.
AMD released ROCm 10, marking ten years of its ROCm software stack. ROCm is AMD’s software platform for programming and operating supported GPU-accelerated computing hardware.
HUMAIN, which is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, expanded its cooperation with digital-infrastructure company DataVolt. The companies began construction of a planned AI data center at Oxagon, the industrial area under development within NEOM.
HUMAIN, AMD, and Cisco announced that their joint venture plans to deploy up to 250 megawatts of AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia beginning in 2027. The next expansion phase is scheduled to start that year.
ChronoScale announced plans with Microsoft for a 50-megawatt AI-compute deployment in North America. The announcement describes a planned deployment rather than capacity already operating.
PJM Interconnection removed Oklo’s 750-megawatt mixed-technology project from the regional transmission organization’s interconnection-study cycle. An interconnection study evaluates a project’s ability to connect to the grid; removal is not the same as cancellation of an operating plant because the project had not reached that stage.
Iran’s Darahu combined-cycle power plant formally commissioned a steam-turbine generating unit. The unit has installed generation capacity of 290 megawatts.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure introduced preview services for private multicloud connectivity between their platforms. Azure described its Multicloud Interconnect for AWS as a cloud-native networking service built on open interoperability standards.
Google Cloud made BigQuery Graph generally available after offering it in preview. The service brings graph capabilities directly into the BigQuery data warehouse, with International Organization for Standardization-standard Graph Query Language alongside SQL.
Google Cloud introduced dedicated singleton compute runtimes for Cloud Run. Unlike runtimes that shut down when idle, these instances are designed to remain active continuously.
Diraq and Equinix announced plans to deploy a Diraq quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney, Australia. Diraq’s system is based on silicon-spin quantum-computing technology.
Anthropic temporarily shifted 150 engineers to security work following a security-breach incident. The company described the reassignment as temporary and said the engineers’ work focus had been redirected toward security matters.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced the addition of Starshield AI’s Grok Government and OpenAI’s ChatGPT for unclassified military use. The deployment expands the number of AI assistants available through the department’s platform.
Galbot Store held its Hong Kong launch ceremony on Aug. 31 and was scheduled to begin formal operations on Sept. 1. The store is described as Hong Kong’s first fully autonomous robotic retail outlet and Galbot’s first location outside its home market.
