Tech in Asia · Aiko Gao Ishida
Mistral AI in early talks to raise $3.4b at $23b valuation
Mistral AI plans a data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs and 44 MW capacity.
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Tech in Asia · Aiko Gao Ishida
Mistral AI plans a data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs and 44 MW capacity.
Techpoint Africa · Sarah Laniyan
Bluechip Technologies announced the acquisition of YarnGPT, an AI text-to-speech model, at the Bluechip Data and AI Summit on Wednesday, as Africa's tech leaders gathered to define the continent's role in the AI future.
Bloomberg Technology · Yuan Gao
China bets $295 billion on AI backbone as US data center boom accelerates
MarkTechPost · Michal Sutter
Deep Research now lives inside Perplexity Computer, breaking hard questions into subtasks and routing across 20+ frontier models. The post Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards appeared first on…
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KKR Launches $10 Billion AI Infrastructure Company With Nvidia, Vistra WSJ
AI Business · Scarlett Evans
Funding from investors including Nvidia, Amazon and Qualcomm will support the vendor’s development of humanoid robots and physical AI.
The Guardian AI · Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz
There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodies There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally returning to their essential, best selves.
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry.
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Cerebras’ Massive AI Chip Outperforms Nvidia (NVDA) GPUs in Demo TipRanks
Axios · Sam Sabin
OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates over tariffs and AI data centers, the company said Wednesday.
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Humaniod robotics company raises up to $1.4 billion from Nvidia, Amazon and others CNBC
IT Brief NZ · sofiah@techday.com (Sofiah Nichole Salivio)
Rising enterprise spending on AI helped push Genesys Cloud annual recurring revenue to USD $2.8 billion, with international sales nearing 45%.
IT Brief NZ · mark@techday.com (Mark Tarre)
Investment in chipmaking tools hit a record USD $36.55 billion in the first quarter as AI demand kept factories expanding.
OpenAI
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
OpenAI
Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.
OpenAI
A new report from OpenAI details PRC-linked influence operations using AI to target U.S. tech debates, data center narratives, tariffs, and false claims about ChatGPT.
Bloomberg Technology
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna discusses IBM's significant $10 billion investment in quantum computing, a faster form of AI. Krishna also noted a $1 billion federal government commitment to build a chip fabrication facility in Albany, New York, illustrating a strong collaboration between public and private…
IT Brief NZ · seanm@techday.com (Sean Mitchell)
Sensitive data can stay off the cloud as Custodia's Sentinel gives executives and researchers a local AI appliance for private document analysis.
Axios · Dan Primack
President Trump is pursuing a Bernie-like interest in having the U.S. government take stakes in AI giants. not out of populism, but with a dealmaker's eye for profit. Why it matters: Having the government take equity in private companies.
Axios · Ben Berkowitz
Investors were confronted this past week with four difficult realities that may fundamentally change the way they think about AI the business vs. AI the technology: 💰 AI is too expensive, say CEOs and even Microsoft itself.
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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance TechCrunch
Bloomberg Technology · Sankalp Phartiyal
Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Reliance Industries Ltd. to build its first AI data center in India, adding to a wave of investment in tech infrastructure globally.
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Super Micro Computer to raise $7 billion in equity offerings to meet AI server demand Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg Technology · Andrew Pollack, Anthony Hughes
Super Micro Computer Inc. plans to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to purchase the components needed to fulfill customers’ orders for the company’s artificial intelligence servers.
Bloomberg Technology
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses why Taiwan is weighing some of its toughest restrictions yet on AI chip sales to China, and OpenAI joining its AI rivals with plans for a potential public listing later this year.