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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.

SoftBank is setting up SB Neo to rent AI compute to U.S. companies, with a March 2028 service target and 10-gigawatt infrastructure still under development.

Alibaba Cloud's SkillWeaver framework routes AI-agent tasks to relevant tools and claims 99% lower benchmark token use, but code and production proof remain open.

AI server demand is keeping supply chains tight and is expected to pressure 2027 deliveries as analyst estimates point to packaging and component bottlenecks.

Nvidia's new AI cloud financing strategy lowers upfront GPU buildout costs while tying supported capacity to future cloud revenue, with key payment terms still unclear.

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 4 ISO downloads on GitHub, adding a local test path while the Fedora-derived preview stays Azure-focused and evaluation-only.

A rumored cloud compute plan by Meta aims to sell spare artificial intelligence compute, turning costly data centers into revenue while pressuring cloud rivals.

Microsoft reportedly plans layoffs across Xbox, sales and consulting as artificial intelligence costs intensify fiscal pressure; the plan is unconfirmed.

Microsoft's quantum-safe roadmap targets 2029 as customers face quantum-resistant cryptography planning, data-exposure risk, and migration pressure.

The US lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, restoring Fable access while keeping Mythos tied to approved partners and US review.

Big Tech's AI capex race is pushing cloud hyperscalers toward a hard cash-flow squeeze as infrastructure costs grow faster than operating cash flow.