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WeatherNext 3 brings hourly weather forecasts, 15-day main cycles and finer near-surface detail, with data available through Google Cloud and Earth Engine.

Nvidia has signed an $11.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, pending regulatory approvals and a closing expected in the first half of 2027.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic capabilities, while access delays and disputed benchmark comparisons fuel user debate.

Anthropic will be using Enterprise Frontier Safeguards that keep monitoring Claude logs in customer clouds.

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Meta has projected $130 billion to $145 billion in 2026 capital expenditure, intensifying investor scrutiny of when its AI products will generate returns.

PayPal's recent earnings beat raises the bar for a possible Stripe-Advent takeover proposal as CEO Enrique Lores keeps superior-value alternatives open.

Xbox says an outside licensing failure caused a recent 15-hour outage, blocking sign-ins and owned games; service is back, but its permanent fix is pending.

Nvidia is investeing a reported $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence and plans Vera Rubin access for a tenfold compute expansion.

Nvidia's Vera server CPU has early customers and planned volume deployments, but broad cloud adoption remains its test against Intel and AMD through 2026.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's proposed Ohio campus lease; terms remain unsettled and could shift credit risk to Nvidia.

Google Cloud's revenue has grown 82% year over year, meeting a $514 billion backlog and supply constraints as Alphabet raises its AI spending range for 2026.

Microsoft has outlined plans to deploy AMD's Helios rack-scale AI system on Azure, expanding infrastructure choice while deployment scale remains undisclosed.

Microsoft plans to end OneDrive sync-app updates and maintenance on pre-22H2 Windows 10 builds on August 15.

Meta and Anthropic reportedly discuss a two-year compute lease worth up to $10 billion, with key hardware terms remaining unresolved.

Amazon Web Services has fixed a unit-pricing glitch that showed billion-dollar billing estimates globally.

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork available worldwide on June 16, pairing completed multi-tool work with usage billing and direct administrator cost controls.

OpenAI lost its EU court challenge over the OPENAI branding after judges found the name descriptive for specified software and cloud computing services.

Elon Musk has acquired power provider APR Energy, gaining fast-deployment generation capacity, with the deal's value and intended use staying unconfirmed.

Rambus has introduced a DDR5 9600 server memory chipset reaching 9,600 MT/s, targeting AI and high-performance computing bandwidth constraints in data centers.

SpaceXAI's agentic coding CLI, Grok Build, sent tracked repositories and their full histories to cloud storage before a remote fix stopped uploads.

New York has paused environmental permits for large new data centers for up to one year while regulators set grid, water, air-quality and community rules.

Google is reportedly pitching its Tensor Processing Units to Nvidia-focused AI cloud providers.

Meta plans to expand its Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana to five gigawatts, requiring a major power buildout while the full timetable remains open.

Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business that lets outside developers rent AI compute and access models hosted on its infrastructure.

TeraWulf's Anthropic data center lease is expected to generate about $19 billion as the bitcoin miner pivots toward future Claude AI infrastructure capacity.

Former GitHub-CEO's startup Entire has launched a Git network that mirrors GitHub repositories for AI coding agents with regional cells.

Microsoft has added Windows 11 Cloud Rebuild to preview builds, letting unbootable PCs reinstall from the cloud without USB media while wiping local data.

Nvidia's reported Kyber NVL144 delay to 2028 centers on a circuit-board constraint, leaving Rubin shipments intact and rivals a possible AI rack opening.

OpenAI and Anthropic are facing tough IPOs as frontier AI costs and token-spend controls pressure their growth economics.