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Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI TechCrunch · 6 days ago · 49

The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry TechCrunch · 1 month ago · 28

US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 TechCrunch · 1 month ago · 28 Japan doubled defense spending to counter China. Now it wants AI, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories Fortune · 25

October 2026

• 14 Oct Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI

September 2026

◆ Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned after warning that frontier AI could pose an existential risk, including a more-than-10% chance of human extinction within the decade Executive move

• 15 Sep The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry
• 15 Sep US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035

August 2026

• 31 Aug Japan doubled defense spending to counter China. Now it wants AI, underwater attack drones and government-owned weapons factories

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Competition

• Competes with China · 1 source

Products & technology

• Scimplify deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source