
Anthropic's $11.6B Akamai Deal Comes With a Stake
Anthropic committed up to $20 billion to Akamai's cloud business and picked up warrants for a stake in the company as part of the same contract.
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Anthropic committed up to $20 billion to Akamai's cloud business and picked up warrants for a stake in the company as part of the same contract.

Oracle told the developer of its $165 billion Project Jupiter data center it may invoke force majeure, a move that could delay rent payments by up to three years.

Nvidia is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure, reviving circular financing fears.

PJM's board approved a plan to curtail power to data centers of 50 megawatts or larger during grid emergencies starting June 2027, unless they bring their own generation.

AMD signed a 15-year, $14B+ infrastructure deal with Core Scientific for 500+ MW of AI data center capacity, with an option to scale to 2.5 GW - its third major hosting deal in five months.

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410 million multi-year AWS compute deal with no equity stake, a rare cash-only structure in an industry built on circular financing.

Nvidia is negotiating to backstop $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, plus another $350 billion for the chips going inside it, reviving the circular financing debate.

A single transmission line fault near Virginia's data center alley triggered a synchronized 3-gigawatt disconnect that took PJM 11 minutes to stabilize, twice as bad as a similar 2024 event.

Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace will fly Nvidia Jetson modules on a lunar rover and orbiter this year, the first GPUs to run on and around the Moon.

Runway's new Media Router auto-selects the best video, image, or audio model for each API request by cost, quality, or speed - the first preference-based router built for generative media instead of text.

Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation, doubling its price tag in seven months, even though its transformer-only Sohu chip has yet to ship in volume.

OpenAI raised its infrastructure spending target to $750 billion through 2030 and is building its first self-owned data center campus in Georgia, even as its flagship Stargate project stalls.