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SpaceX, Reflection AI Sign $150M Monthly Compute Deal
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.
Groq Raises $650M, Hires Execs After Nvidia Deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Nvidia's New Cooling System Reduces Data Center Water Use
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
Microsoft and Chevron's Major US Gas-Powered Data Center Project
Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.
Tesla Autopilot Investigation: What Happened in Texas Crash?
Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.
Sarvam Raises $234M, Becomes India's Newest AI Unicorn
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B in Stock to Boost AI Division
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Foundation Alloy's AI-Driven Metals for Drones, Watches, and Knives
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
Probably Raises $9M for Reliable AI Infrastructure
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
AI-Powered Geothermal Energy Startup Secures $54M Funding
SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.
Oracle Security Bug Exploited in Mass-Hacking Campaign
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.
Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus Secures $12B for Physical AI
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
AI Memory Systems May Degrade Model Performance
New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.
Starlink's India Hurdles May Impact SpaceX IPO
Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.
Top AI Firms Spend $7,500 Monthly on AI per Employee
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
Amazon Borrows $17.5B for AI Spending Amid Debt Surge
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
AI Data Centers Drive Automakers Into Energy Storage
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
Cybercriminals Breach Oracle PeopleSoft Servers at 100+ Organizations
The ShinyHunters hacking gang claims to have compromised the Oracle PeopleSoft servers of more than 100 organizations, including many universities.
xAI Engineer Sues Over Alleged AI Safety Firing
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
Anthropic Partners with TCS for Enterprise AI Deployment
The partnership will see TCS creating a business unit focused on deploying Anthropic's AI models to its customers.
Trump Eyes Equity in OpenAI for American AI Success
President Donald Trump said he's discussing deals "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."
Sriram Krishnan Exits White House AI Advisor Role for New Venture
Krishnan is reportedly starting a new institution to continue shaping Trump's AI policy.
Supabase Doubles Valuation to $10B in 8 Months, Boosted by AI
Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
GM's New Battery Facility Accelerates Electric Future
GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
Google's $920M Monthly AI Compute Deal with SpaceX
In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
IBM Whistleblower Accuses Company of Covering Up Data Breaches
IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s — a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering it up.
Waymo Repurposes Robotaxi Batteries for Grid Storage
The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.
Helion Secures $465M for Microsoft Fusion Power Plant
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.
Meta Builds Data Centers in Tents to Cut Costs
Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to Launch New AI Lab
The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
AirTrunk Plans $30B AI Data Center Expansion in India
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
GitLab Reduces Workforce by 14% to Scale AI Infrastructure
The company is reducing its workforce as it exits 22 countries, reduces management layers, and invests in its infrastructure to scale its platform.
Alphabet Raises $85B for Google's AI: Investor Interest Soars
If Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.
Uber's 500 Data-Capturing Vehicles for AI Infrastructure
The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.
Lovable Boosts AI Infrastructure with Google Cloud Expansion
Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.
Benchmark Raises $2B Growth Fund, Breaks 20-Year Tradition
The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.
Unastella Secures $24M for South Korean Rocket Development
The Seoul-based rocket startup is developing its own launch vehicles and engines.
Erin Brockovich Targets Data Center Secrecy with AI
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
AI Weather Startup WindBorne Outperforms Government Forecasts
WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time, launched from 15 sites around the globe. The advances in its current model come from improvements in how the data collected by the balloons is fed into the models.
Anthropic AI Files to Go Public, Secures Top Enterprise Customers
Anthropic, now an AI powerhouse that has landed top-tier enterprise customers, was once considered an underdog in the emerging world of large language models.
SpaceX's IPO Faces Water Access Challenges for AI Infrastructure
The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
Nvidia's AI Agent PCs: Revolutionizing the $200B CPU Market
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
Alphabet Seeks $80B for AI Expansion
"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.
XCENA Raises $135M for AI Memory Innovation
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Groq Aims to Raise $650M for AI Inference Focus After Nvidia Deal
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
SpaceX Secures $6.45B in Space Force Contracts Before IPO
SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
Thea Energy Raises $100M for Fusion Power Breakthrough
Thea Energy's pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.
Amazon and Snowflake's $6B AI Chip Deal: Boost for AWS
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
General Compute Bets on SambaNova for Next AI Chip Breakout
General Compute is betting SambaNova will be the next breakout chipmaker.
Databricks Co-Founder on Enterprise AI Safety at TechCrunch Disrupt 20
Enterprise AI is entering a different phase now, one where enterprises are no longer evaluating whether AI is exciting. They are evaluating whether it is safe to deploy broadly.