AI infrastructure

Apollo Backs AI Hardware Startups to Win Future Infrastructure Financing
Apollo Backs AI Hardware Startups to Win Future Infrastructure Financing
September 17, 2026  |  Startups

Apollo Global Management is investing in startups focused on artificial intelligence and the related hardware and plans to lend them money in the future, The...

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Nvidia Says AI Agents Are Draining Its Chip Supply
Nvidia Says AI Agents Are Draining Its Chip Supply
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has moved past the hype stage, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that “AI has...

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Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
Anthropic Escalates Cloud Spending With $45 Billion Nscale Agreement
August 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic has agreed to pay $45 billion to rent cloud computing power from neocloud company Nscale’s West Virginia data center, which is set to start...

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Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand Soars
Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand Soars
August 21, 2026  |  IPO

Nscale, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, aims to raise as much as $3 billion in an initial public offering that could take...

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Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook
Grassroots Backlash Forces Big Tech to Rewrite Data Center Playbook
August 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is accomplishing what policymakers have largely failed to do: forcing technology companies, utilities and elected officials to...

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Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Billion
Nvidia Weighs Investment in Round Valuing Mercor at $20 Billion
August 19, 2026  |  Investments

Nvidia has discussed participating in a funding round that would value Mercor, a data labeling provider that supplies data that helps the chip designer develop open-source models,...

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CFTC Prepares to Draft Rules for Trading Compute Derivatives Contracts
CFTC Prepares to Draft Rules for Trading Compute Derivatives Contracts
August 19, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking comment on the listing of compute derivatives contracts as it prepares to establish the “gold standard” for...

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Goldman Sachs Says AI Spending Not Boosting Corporate Earnings
Goldman Sachs Says AI Spending Not Boosting Corporate Earnings
August 16, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A jump in corporate artificial intelligence spending has not translated into a corresponding boost in earnings. That’s according to a report Sunday (Aug. 16) by...

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US Aims to Boost Trade of AI-Related Goods With Allies
US Aims to Boost Trade of AI-Related Goods With Allies
August 12, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

The State Department has launched a program designed to speed the trade of artificial intelligence (AI)-related materials with America’s allies. The Pax Silica AI Assistance...

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