Tag: Ai infrastructure

$200 million bet on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Panthalassa raised $210M for ocean-based AI computing nodes powered by wave energy. The 85-meter Ocean-3 spheres are set for Pacific testing in 2026, sea-cooled and transmitting AI outputs via satellite.

SAP acquires Prior Labs and commits €1B to European AI for structured data

SAP announced the acquisition of German startup Prior Labs and a €1 billion investment in tabular foundation models. The company simultaneously blocked OpenClaw and other unauthorized AI agents, permitting only NVIDIA's NemoClaw.

AWS and OpenAI Launch Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock

AWS and OpenAI announced Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents and limited preview access to GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4. The service eliminates the need for customers to choose an underlying model and builds on a $38 billion agreement signed in 2025.

Scout AI Raises $100M to Build the AI Brain for Autonomous Warfare Systems

Scout AI has closed a $100M Series A to develop its Fury foundation model for autonomous military systems. The company holds $11M in DoD contracts and is building the reasoning layer for unmanned fleets across air, land, sea, and space.

Pentagon Signs AI Deals with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and AWS for Classified Military Networks

The U.S. Department of Defense has signed AI deployment agreements with NVIDIA, Microsoft, AWS, and Reflection AI for its IL6/IL7 classified networks, accelerating its multi-vendor strategy in the wake of the Anthropic legal dispute.

AI Demand Is Outpacing the Scaffolding to Support It

Cloud revenue is up 35% year over year, Intel reports "tremendous" AI demand exceeding supply, and Microsoft reveals data center capacity gaps. Meanwhile, enterprise AI adoption continues to outpace governance — creating sprawling costs and security risks. A week-in-review analysis from AI Business.

Anthropic Eyes $50B Round at $900B Valuation — Potentially the Largest Private Raise in Tech History

Anthropic is in talks to raise $40–50B at an $850–900B valuation — more than double its value from three months ago. ARR has surpassed $30B. This may be its final private round before an IPO.

Teradyne Robotics Posts $91M in Q1 2026 — Fourth Consecutive Quarter of Growth

Teradyne Robotics reported $91 million in Q1 2026 revenue — its fourth consecutive quarter of sequential growth. AI-related products account for ~15% of sales. Legal proceedings against Chinese cobot maker Elite Robots continue.

ShengShu unveils Motubrain: one AI brain for every robot platform

ShengShu Technology has unveiled Motubrain, a World Action Model that unifies video generation, world modeling, and action control in a single Mixture-of-Transformers architecture. Backed by a $293M Series B from Alibaba Cloud, the model tops RoboTwin 2.0 with 96% success across 50 randomized tasks.

OpenAI Ends Microsoft's Cloud Exclusivity. Models Coming to AWS

OpenAI and Microsoft announced new partnership terms on April 27, 2026 that end Microsoft's exclusive access to OpenAI's API and products. The change resolves a legal conflict between the existing agreement and OpenAI's February deal with Amazon worth up to $50 billion.

Google Announces Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next '26 in Las Vegas

Google has announced at the Cloud Next '26 conference in Las Vegas a new platform that entirely replaces Vertex AI as the central environment for building and deploying AI agents in enterprises. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform has been available since April 22, 2026, and from that point takes over all further updates and development plans for Vertex AI.

NVIDIA i Google Cloud budują „fabryki AI”. Nowa era robotyki agentycznej

Maniformer oficjalnie startuje: chińska platforma danych dla robotów wchodzi na rynek z własną infrastrukturą

EverOS: system operacyjny pamięci dla agentów AI

Mixture of Experts (MoE) — architektura, która pozwala budować coraz większe modele AI bez proporcjonalnego wzrostu kosztów obliczeniowych

Anthropic uruchamia Claude Managed Agents. Koniec z miesiącami pracy nad infrastrukturą agentów AI

GLM-5: duży model językowy zaprojektowany do autonomicznego inżynierowania oprogramowania

Zhipu AI uderza w OpenAI. Model GLM-5.1 pracuje autonomicznie przez 8 godzin

Anthropic pręży muskuły. Gigawatowe partnerstwo z Google i Broadcom

Shenzhen uruchamia klaster AI z 10 tysiącami jednostek obliczeniowych

Tesla i SpaceX budują Terafab: Nowa era autonomii zaczyna się w Teksasie

Polska uruchamia piaskownicę regulacyjną AI: Nowy poligon doświadczalny dla technologii

EverMind przełamuje barierę 100 milionów tokenów. Nowa architektura MSA redefiniuje pamięć długotrwałą w LLM

NTT DATA i Nvidia budują „fabryki AI”: Nowy standard skalowania GenAI

Akamai wdraża tysiące układów NVIDIA Blackwell na brzegu sieci