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TechCrunch 3 weeks ago 51
Crusoe abandoned its plan to buy Boom Supersonic’s Superpower stationary power turbines for its AI data centers. The canceled deal involved $1.25 billion for 29 turbines from Boom. Crusoe confirmed it is no longer partnering with Boom, while Boom said it will deliver about 250MW next year to other sites and target 1GW in 2028.
TechCrunch 3 weeks ago 8 ● 2 sources
Akamai said Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on its cloud infrastructure. The agreement begins with no Akamai revenue in 2025 and the filing pegs expected 2027 revenue at $150 million to $300 million. Akamai will add about $5.5 billion in spending to build capacity, issue a warrant tied to Anthropic’s future cloud spending, and allow the deal to expand up to roughly $20 billion or end under certain conditions.
SiliconANGLE 3 weeks ago 48 ● 6 sources
CoreWeave expanded its full-stack AI cloud offering by completing the bring-up and validation of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave Cloud as inference demand grows. The article says the new system offers one-tenth the cost per million tokens compared with Nvidia’s previous releases. The shift moves AI infrastructure toward integrated, production-oriented stacks aimed at improving utilization and token economics and narrowing the gap between AI pilots and production deployments.
The Pragmatic Engineer 3 weeks ago 17
Companies are finding it harder to source CPUs from cloud providers as AI-driven workloads push demand up and spot pricing disappears.
GlobeNewswire News Room 3 weeks ago 47 ● 2 sources
Akamai signed a multi-year compute agreement with Anthropic to expand its distributed CPU workload capacity using Akamai Cloud infrastructure and software.
Tech Funding News 3 weeks ago 44
Tech Funding News’ Akansha Dimri moderated a panel with Michelin’s AI chief and a causaLens CEO, then judged HumanX Amsterdam’s AI startup pitch competition focused on scaling enterprise AI. Michelin’s internal generative AI platform has more than 30,000 users, but the panelists said only about a fifth of the company’s AI value comes from that “copilot” type usage. The event highlighted that enterprises must shift from copilots to custom models and redesigned workflows—because leadership and operational ROI, not just technology, determine whether AI becomes deployable and paid for.
Trending Topics 3 weeks ago 27 ● 125 sources
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the US will need to rely on fossil fuels longer than climate advocates want, arguing the power supply planning lag is being exposed as AI data-center demand accelerates. He predicted that within four or five years the country will use a lot more fossil fuel. As a result, AI-driven energy demand is pushing near-term gas generation (while funding and deploying longer-term options like renewables and nuclear) and Huang frames AI safety as a compute-and-evaluation problem rather than a reason for a slowdown.
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19 October 2026
The biggest thread today isn’t about model capability—it’s about who gets held responsible when AI agents act. Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes used his company’s new “Agentic Multiplayer Protocol” to make a blunt point: “the AI did it” can’t be an escape hatch. The idea is to keep accountability with the end user by making agent edits visible in document history, like work from a colleague whose changes you can trace. It’s a practical shift away from the consumer fantasy that an agent can operate in the dark; instead, Atlassian is building a control plane where provenance and auditability are first-class features.
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