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According to Financial_Express, Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion compute contract with Akamai Technologies, identified in the reporting by ticker AKAM. The agreement specifically covers central processing unit (CPU) compute—not graphics processing unit (GPU) capacity.
The reported warrant gives Anthropic the right to purchase Akamai Series B shares at $111.33 per share. Those Series B shares are described as convertible into 7.7 million Akamai common shares.
Apollo Global Management (阿波罗全球管理公司) reportedly expanded its loan to SoftBank Group (软银集团) to $9.2 billion, according to unidentified people cited in the Telegram reporting. The financing is secured against assets of Vision Fund 2 (愿景基金 2 号), making the collateral pool a central disclosed feature.
PicoJool announced that it raised $27.5 million in Series A funding led by Socratic Partners, with participation from Hudson River Trading (HRT). The HPCwire announcement presents this as funding raised, rather than a fundraising target or an undrawn financing facility.
According to Politico reporting relayed by Financial_Express, the White House (白宫) asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their latest models with UK government testers until US government testing is complete. The request reportedly originated with the Office of the National Cyber Director (美国国家网络总监办公室); the supplied material describes a request, not a published regulation or enacted legal prohibition.
EdgeCortix announced RAIDEN as its next-generation scalable AI chiplet platform. The announcement specifically targets physical AI deployed outside centralized data centers, rather than presenting RAIDEN as a new data-center cluster or cloud-capacity offering.
ServeTheHome published a review of ASRock Rack’s SORANOD8-2L2T motherboard, identifying it as a new board for AMD EPYC 8005 Sorano processors. The reviewed product is a motherboard, not a complete server, rack, or accelerator system.
Qualcomm announced at Qualcomm Summit 2026 that it would begin supporting Snapdragon X2 on Debian and Ubuntu. ServeTheHome’s supplied article title explicitly places the start of support in 2026.
Utility Dive reports that advanced transmission projects received $1.9 billion in US Department of Energy funding. The department expects the projects to add 23 gigawatts (GW) of grid capacity.
Telegram reports identify Oracle’s New Mexico development as Project Jupiter (木星项目) and state that Oracle issued a force-majeure notice concerning power supply. Financial Times reporting relayed by Financial_Express identifies the developer as a Blue Owl Capital (蓝猫头鹰资本) subsidiary and says local opposition had delayed permitting.
Vertiv announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire King Environmental Services Ltd. (KES). The disclosed transaction stage is an acquisition agreement—not a completed acquisition.
Utility Dive reports that Exelon’s climate investment arm backed Continuum, identified in the article title as a grid-planning firm. This is an investment update concerning utility planning, not a disclosed power-supply agreement for a compute operator.
Google announced the open-source release of GKE agentic migration, a purpose-built agent plugin for migrations from Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS) to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The workflow converts infrastructure as code (IaC) through automatically created pull requests, according to the accompanying Telegram reporting.
Google introduced PostgreSQL for agents in AlloyDB in preview, with sandboxed database instances provisioned in seconds. Google describes an architecture engineered to support thousands of serverless instances with up-to-the-second, read-only access to production data, separated from primary, standby, and production read-replica instances.
AWS announced an enhanced custom event bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting organizations that operate event-driven applications across multiple teams and accounts. The announcement describes deploying a single event bus shared across all AWS accounts within an organization.
BNP Paribas (法国巴黎银行) and Google Cloud (谷歌云) signed a five-year AI agreement, according to financialjuice and Financial_Express. The reporting characterizes the relationship as a partnership in agentic AI and cloud innovation.
Google announced general availability of Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, following its initial preview at Google Cloud Next 2026. The release provides US and EU endpoints, provisioned throughput, and enterprise compliance and data-governance features, while Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking remains in private preview.
Google Cloud’s customer account reports that Scribd classified more than 400 million user-uploaded documents containing more than 12 billion pages of text and images. The completed trust-and-safety backfill covered Scribd and Slideshare and took a matter of months, with Google Cloud scaling batch throughput to meet the timeline.
Meta introduced Horizon Create and Horizon Studio at Meta Connect. The supplied reporting says the tools allow users to build games using agent-assisted creation capabilities.
