Sapiom reportedly raised $35 million with Anthropic backing to route AI agents to lower-cost models, targeting a major barrier to enterprise deployment.

Reports from The Straits Times and The Business Times link Chinese AI demand to rising Hong Kong data centre prices, raising costs for AI builders.

NVIDIA is positioning open world models and Cosmos 3 as an adaptable base for physical AI, from robot training to autonomous vehicles and vision systems.

Anthropic is securing six years of AI compute from Volta, a new Nvidia-backed cloud startup, deepening infrastructure ties and concentration risk for builders and buyers.

HCLTech and Sarvam plan a $1.48 billion AI data center in Odisha, signaling bigger domestic bets on compute, jobs, and enterprise AI capacity.

Corridor Ventures has invested in Carbice, highlighting rising investor interest in cooling technology as AI infrastructure pushes data centers harder.

Reuters reports AMD may invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, which would in turn buy up to 2 GW of AI chips, tightening key supply links.

A VentureBeat survey suggests enterprises are ramping AI infrastructure and vendor changes faster than they can track GPU use or true compute costs.

NVIDIA says ICML 2026 papers show open models and open AI infrastructure are now central to research, with implications for robotics, biology and enterprise AI.

NVIDIA’s DAQIRI launch underscores why AI agents need real-time data pipelines, not just models, to act reliably on fast-changing inputs at scale.

Venice AI raised a $65 million Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, underscoring continued investor demand for AI platform bets.

Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to monetize excess AI computing power and models, directly competing with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Omen AI secured a $31 million Series A to deploy AI-powered sensors that track chip coolant health and prevent bacterial contamination in data centers.

The rapid AI data center buildout is colliding with escalating climate risks, as extreme heat and severe weather events threaten infrastructure reliability.

A planned 600MW AI data centre in Fife, Scotland, spanning 150 acres, has sparked fierce local opposition over environmental and community impact.

Naveen Rao, formerly head of AI at Databricks, launched Unconventional AI, which promises to make inference processing vastly more power-efficient using novel hardware.

Amazon announced an additional $13 billion investment to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India through 2030, lifting its total planned commitment to $48 billion.

a16z led a $33 million seed round in Ornn, a compute marketplace startup building a venue to trade the power and processing capacity that drives AI workloads.

SoftBank Group is pursuing an investment in Tokyo Electric Power to secure electricity supply needed to scale its artificial intelligence infrastructure ambitions.

Amazon workers who publicly backed data center regulations say they were called into HR meetings and face termination for their activism.