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Vapi raises $50M Series B to scale voice AI platform handling over 1 billion calls

San Francisco-based Vapi has secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Peak XV to expand its enterprise voice-AI platform. The company now supports over 1 million developers and has processed more than 1 billion calls through voice agents built on its infrastructure. Major customers including Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are using the platform to automate customer service and improve satisfaction scores.

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Vapi raises $50M Series B to scale voice AI platform handling over 1 billion calls

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Amazon employees are tokenmaxxing to meet AI usage targets as pressure mounts across Big Tech

Amazon employees are using the company's internal AI tool MeshClaw to automate non-essential tasks, inflating their token consumption to meet aggressive usage targets. The practice, called tokenmaxxing, reflects mounting pressure as Amazon requires over 80% of developers to use AI weekly while tracking consumption on internal leaderboards. Similar behavior has emerged at Meta and Microsoft, raising questions about the authenticity of AI demand driving hundreds of billions in infrastructure spending.

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Amazon employees are tokenmaxxing to meet AI usage targets as pressure mounts across Big Tech

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Intel CEO confirms Intel and Nvidia collaboration on new products is actively progressing

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan publicly confirmed that Intel and Nvidia are actively developing new products together, eight months after their historic partnership announcement. The collaboration spans AI infrastructure platforms and consumer devices, with the first joint products potentially arriving by 2026. Intel's stock rose following the announcement.

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Intel CEO confirms Intel and Nvidia collaboration on new products is actively progressing

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HPE launches unified data platform to accelerate private cloud sales and cut infrastructure costs

HPE unveiled its fourth-generation private cloud featuring a unified data platform that manages VMs, Kubernetes containers, and AI workloads through a single interface. Partners predict the enhanced hybrid cloud stack with AI-ready storage updates and simplified management will supercharge private cloud sales growth while offering customers a cost-effective alternative to rising VMware prices.

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HPE launches unified data platform to accelerate private cloud sales and cut infrastructure costs

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Zelenskiy meets Palantir CEO as Ukraine expands use of AI in war with over 80 detection models

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with Palantir CEO Alex Karp to accelerate AI integration in military operations. Ukraine has launched the Brave1 Dataroom project, leveraging combat data from Russia's 2022 invasion to develop systems that intercept Russian drones. More than 100 companies are now training over 80 AI models to detect aerial targets and enhance deep strike operations.

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Zelenskiy meets Palantir CEO as Ukraine expands use of AI in war with over 80 detection models

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Shai Hulud Malware Compromises TanStack, OpenAI, and Mistral AI in Sprawling Supply-Chain Attack

A sophisticated AI supply-chain attack linked to the TeamPCP threat group has compromised hundreds of software packages across TanStack, Mistral AI, and OpenAI. The Shai Hulud malware exploited developer infrastructure to steal credentials from GitHub, cloud providers, and CI/CD systems. The self-propagating worm published 84 malicious versions with valid security attestations, exposing critical gaps in how AI companies secure their release pipelines.

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Shai Hulud Malware Compromises TanStack, OpenAI, and Mistral AI in Sprawling Supply-Chain Attack

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Nscale Secures $790M Debt Financing to Expand Narvik AI Data Centre in Norway

Nvidia-backed Nscale has secured $790 million in debt financing from major Nordic banks to expand its AI data centre in Narvik, Norway. The AI infrastructure company plans to deploy over 30,000 Nvidia Rubin processing units as part of a 115MW expansion at the Stargate Norway project site, building on its $2 billion Series C funding round from March 2025.

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Nscale Secures $790M Debt Financing to Expand Narvik AI Data Centre in Norway

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Cowboy Space raises $275 million to build orbital AI data centers and its own rockets

Cowboy Space, formerly Aetherflux, has raised $275 million at a $2 billion valuation to deploy solar-powered AI data centers in orbit. The company plans to build its own rockets due to insufficient launch capacity, with each satellite housing 800 GPUs and generating 1 megawatt of power. The first rocket launch is expected before the end of 2028.

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Cowboy Space raises $275 million to build orbital AI data centers and its own rockets

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Telus and federal government unveil AI data cluster in B.C. to strengthen sovereign computing

Telus and Canada's federal government announced plans for a major AI data cluster across three facilities in British Columbia. The project will expand an existing Kamloops data center and develop two new Vancouver facilities, requiring more than 150 megawatts of electricity by 2032. The initiative aims to strengthen Canada's sovereign computing power and support domestic innovation in artificial intelligence.

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Telus and federal government unveil AI data cluster in B.C. to strengthen sovereign computing

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MoonPay Acquires Dawn Labs to Launch AI Trading Copilot for Prediction Markets

MoonPay has acquired applied research lab Dawn Labs and launched Dawn CLI, an AI-powered trading copilot that lets users build and execute trading strategies on prediction markets using plain English commands. The tool initially supports Polymarket, with plans to expand to additional platforms as demand for automated trading tools grows.

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MoonPay Acquires Dawn Labs to Launch AI Trading Copilot for Prediction Markets

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Alphabet closes record $3.6 billion yen bond sale to fund AI infrastructure expansion

Alphabet completed a historic $3.6 billion yen-denominated bond sale, the largest ever by a foreign company in Japan. The Google parent tapped Japanese institutional investors as part of its aggressive multi-currency funding strategy to finance up to $190 billion in AI capital expenditure. The move signals how US tech companies are shifting from cash reserves to debt markets to support massive AI infrastructure investments.

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Alphabet closes record $3.6 billion yen bond sale to fund AI infrastructure expansion

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Circle launches Agent Stack to give AI agents USDC stablecoin payment powers

Circle unveiled Agent Stack, a suite of developer tools that enables AI agents to hold wallets and make autonomous USDC stablecoin payments. The announcement came alongside a $222 million Arc token presale backed by BlackRock, Apollo, and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the Arc network at $3 billion. Circle positions AI agents themselves as primary customers for its financial infrastructure.

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Circle launches Agent Stack to give AI agents USDC stablecoin payment powers

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SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centers at former Sharp factory

SoftBank Group's mobile-services subsidiary will begin manufacturing large-scale battery cells at a converted Sharp factory in Sakai, Osaka, targeting one gigawatt-hour per year. Partnering with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX, the company plans mass production from April 2026 to address surging power demands of AI data centers while avoiding Chinese supply chains.

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SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centers at former Sharp factory

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Cerebras Systems raises $5.5B in blockbuster IPO after nearly burning out with $8M monthly spend

Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO, valuing the AI chipmaker at roughly $60 billion. But the company's success story nearly ended in 2019 when it was burning $8 million monthly trying to solve a technical problem that had stumped the semiconductor industry for decades. The breakthrough came in July 2019 when the team finally cracked the packaging challenge for its dinner plate-sized chip.

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Cerebras Systems raises $5.5B in blockbuster IPO after nearly burning out with $8M monthly spend

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Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center stalls as power demands could shut down half the country

Microsoft and G42's ambitious $1 billion AI data center project in Kenya has hit a major roadblock over power capacity disputes. President William Ruto says the facility would require shutting off half the country's electricity to operate, highlighting the massive energy demands of AI infrastructure in developing economies.

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Microsoft's $1 billion Kenya AI data center stalls as power demands could shut down half the country

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