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Meta’s updated guidance raises the lower end of its expected 2026 capital expenditure from $130 billion to $135 billion, while retaining a $145 billion upper bound. These figures are management guidance, not completed spending; Meta said it was still developing its budget and capacity plans for 2027 and did not provide a numerical 2027 capital-expenditure outlook.
The reported $1.1 billion arrangement is a planned capacity-reservation advance to KYEC. The source does not characterize it as an acquisition, equity investment, or completed payment, and it should not be presented as any of those transaction types.
The supplied report describes a $1.3 billion pact between Amkor and NVIDIA for South Korean capacity. It establishes an announced agreement value, but does not establish that the entire amount has been paid, recognized as revenue, or deployed into completed manufacturing facilities.
OpenAI said its updated usage policies would take effect on November 20, 2026, clarifying rules for safe model development and sensitive AI applications. The reported approval requirement specifically covers model routers and AI gateways before they offer access.
President Trump said new large data centers should generate their own electricity and give or sell surplus electricity to their local communities or the grid. The supplied messages attribute the statement to a Truth Social post and quote Trump describing the requirement as a mandate.
ServeTheHome reports the installation of the first major structural truss at Intel’s Ohio One project. This is a factory-construction milestone, rather than an announcement that semiconductor production has begun.
ServeTheHome identifies DSX POD as a “server-in-a-container” introduced among the highlights of NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin keynote. NVIDIA also published a developer article specifically addressing the product and the process of bringing interconnected compute infrastructure into productive operation.
According to Telegram reports citing Nikkei, Micron Chief Technology and Products Officer Scott DeBoer said the company had evaluated 4F² memory technology for more than 20 years. He said Micron currently had no plans to adopt it.
Texas Instruments, identified in the earnings messages by ticker TXN, reported 95% year-over-year growth in data-center revenue. Total third-quarter revenue was $6.06 billion, up 28% year over year and above the reported analyst estimate of $5.93 billion; no absolute data-center revenue figure was supplied.
Utility Dive, citing LevelTen, reports that solar power purchase agreement prices increased 5% in the third quarter. The article attributes the increase mainly to new trade tariffs.
Google will no longer require local officials to sign nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, during discussions of new data-center projects. The report says a Google spokesperson confirmed the decision and pointed to a recently published company document describing its data-center construction approach.
Tesla’s third-quarter energy-storage deployments totaled 13.7 gigawatt-hours, its second-highest quarterly total according to the supplied earnings summary. This figure measures storage deployment in energy units, not electricity-generation capacity or data-center power demand.
Utility Dive reports that an Interior Department geothermal lease sale on federal land in Nevada generated $4.8 million. The auction covered approximately 187,000 acres.
Google Cloud said A5X bare-metal GPU-accelerated instances would become generally available in November 2026. The platform combines NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, Google’s Virgo Network, and Google Cloud’s fourth-generation advanced liquid cooling, with regional expansion intended to support European and broader EMEA—Europe, Middle East, and Africa—data-residency requirements.
Google Cloud announced general availability of Confidential Computing on G4 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Availability covers 36 zones, with multiple consumption models on Compute Engine virtual machines and GKE nodes; the geographic figure refers to zones, not regions.
Google Cloud announced three OpenAI models in Model Garden: GPT-6 Astra for demanding coding, computer use, professional work, and scientific research; GPT-6.1 Sol, described as offering near-Astra intelligence at lower cost; and GPT-6 Luna for fast, cost-efficient everyday workloads. These workload and relative-cost descriptions are Google’s product positioning, not independently supplied benchmark results.
ZenteiQ is a startup spun out of the Indian Institute of Science and selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build sovereign scientific foundation models. Its models address physical laws, governing equations, and numerical solvers across fields including thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and electromagnetics.
Anthropic introduced Claude Duet as a proactive agent built on its Opus 5.5 model. Access remains a research preview requiring a waitlist, rather than unrestricted general availability.
PHP and Wiz Research disclosed CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two core-runtime vulnerabilities associated with unauthenticated remote code execution and memory disclosure. Each received a Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score of 9.2, classified as Critical; Google says its cloud platform itself is not vulnerable, but customer PHP applications running on it may be.
NVIDIA announced the general availability of cuDSS, a library within its CUDA-X software portfolio. The supplied description says it shifts a critical part of engineering and scientific simulations onto GPUs, rather than claiming that entire simulation workflows run exclusively on GPUs.
