Singapore’s GIC Piles Into Anthropic at $900 Billion Valuation
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has invested in Anthropic three times in the past year, backing the AI company at a valuation that has climbed to S$1.2 trillion, about $900…
BlackRock Raises $12.3 Billion for Meta’s Data Centers
BlackRock’s capital markets unit launched a $12.3 billion bond sale on July 24 to finance Meta’s data center buildout, one of the largest single financing packages for data center infrastructure…
Intel Pulls 14A Manufacturing Forward a Year
On the same earnings call where Intel reported its fastest revenue growth in 15 years, executives delivered another piece of news that has been years in the making: the company’s…
EU Fines Google $1 Billion in First Digital Markets Act Case
The European Commission on July 22 fined Google €890 million, about $1 billion, the first penalty imposed under the Digital Markets Act since the law took effect in 2024. The…
Alphabet Raises AI Spending to $205 Billion as Cloud Orders Surge
Sundar Pichai had a number ready on Alphabet’s earnings call: $514 billion. That, the chief executive said, is the backlog of cloud orders the company is sitting on, driven by…
OpenAI Lifts Compute Spending Outlook to $750 Billion
OpenAI has raised its planned spending on computing power through 2030 to nearly $750 billion, up from roughly $600 billion at the start of the year, according to people familiar…
AMD to Invest Up to $5 Billion in Anthropic in AI Infrastructure Push
AMD announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic on Wednesday under which it could invest up to $5 billion in the AI company, and Anthropic will deploy AMD’s rack-scale Helios systems…
Nvidia Unveils Edge AI Model and Ethernet Platform for Data Centers
Nvidia on July 22 introduced two products aimed at expanding its reach beyond the training chips that made it the most valuable company in the semiconductor industry. The first, Cosmos…
SpaceX Prepares Starship’s 13th Flight as Short Sellers Press Their Bet
SpaceX was preparing to attempt the 13th flight of its Starship rocket on Wednesday from its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, after engineers re-tested Booster 20, the booster slated…
Intel Posts 22% Revenue Gain but Cuts Data Center Jobs
Intel reported second-quarter revenue up 22 percent from a year earlier on Wednesday, but the growth came with a round of layoffs in its data center and AI division, part…
