NVIDIA is hand-delivering its first custom CPU, Vera, to top AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI, featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and 50% faster per-core performance designed for agentic AI workloads, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure set to deploy hundreds of thousands of units at hyperscale starting in 2026.
NV Energy is cutting power to 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents by 2027, driven by surging data center demand in Nevada, leaving Liberty Utilities scrambling for a new energy source amid a growing national backlash against AI infrastructure.
Google and SpaceX are in active talks to launch orbital data centers in space, though current analysis suggests terrestrial data centers remain far more cost-effective once satellite construction and launch costs are factored in.
Modal slashes GPU cold start times from over 2,000 seconds to just 50 seconds using a breakthrough combination of cloud-buffered idle GPUs, lazy-loading filesystems, CPU memory snapshotting, and CUDA checkpoint/restore, delivering 4-10x faster serverless inference for LLM workloads across hundreds of organizations.
Anthropic's Claude Platform is now live on AWS, offering full API feature parity, native IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and unified billing, giving developers powerful AI tools while a separate Amazon Bedrock option keeps data within AWS infrastructure for stricter compliance needs.
An Intel executive warns that cloud-only AI is economically and infrastructurally unsustainable, calling for a major industry shift toward hybrid on-device and edge AI systems that prioritize affordability, energy efficiency, and user privacy across laptops, phones, and beyond.
Akamai stock surges over 25% to its highest level since 2000 after Anthropic is confirmed as the customer behind a massive seven-year, $1.8 billion cloud deal, as the AI company aggressively expands its compute infrastructure through multiple partnerships to combat usage limits and rival OpenAI.
Anthropic signs a massive $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud computing deal with Akamai Technologies as the AI company races to meet surging demand for its artificial intelligence software.
AWS launches 'Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments,' enabling AI agents to autonomously execute USDC stablecoin transactions through partnerships with Coinbase and Stripe, marking a major Big Tech push into the emerging agentic economy.
Agentic AI is crashing cloud storage systems in real time, as autonomous AI agents generate extreme I/O spikes that legacy infrastructure like AWS EBS cannot handle, causing catastrophic latency surges, platform failures, and AI hallucinations — forcing engineers to urgently rethink storage architecture before the AI inference tsunami hits.