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Nvidia pursues Perplexity investment at $30B valuation as AI search startup triples revenue

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest billions in Perplexity AI at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, marking a 50% jump from its $20 billion valuation a year ago. The AI-powered search company has tripled its annualized revenue to $750 million in eight months, driven by growth in AI agent workloads and conversational search capabilities.

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Nvidia pursues Perplexity investment at $30B valuation as AI search startup triples revenue

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Alibaba Raises $10.2 Billion in Record Share Sale to Accelerate AI Expansion

Alibaba completed a $10.2 billion share placement in Hong Kong to fund its AI infrastructure and capabilities. The record-breaking offering comes as the company reported a 75% quarterly profit decline driven by surging AI investments, with CEO Eddie Wu projecting a payback period of 2.5 years.

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Alibaba Raises $10.2 Billion in Record Share Sale to Accelerate AI Expansion

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Nvidia to raise AI server prices over 15% in early 2027 as memory costs soar

Nvidia has notified its largest customers including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle of price increases exceeding 15% on AI servers shipping from early 2027. The hikes affect systems with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips, driven by unprecedented memory chip costs that Nvidia is passing through rather than absorbing despite its 75% gross margin.

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Nvidia to raise AI server prices over 15% in early 2027 as memory costs soar

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Nscale Eyes $3B IPO as AI Data Center Builder Races to Meet Surging Infrastructure Demand

London-based AI data center builder Nscale is preparing to raise $3 billion in a US IPO as soon as September, with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase as underwriters. The company has $51 billion in contracted revenue and is expanding from 831 megawatts to 11 gigawatts of computing capacity across global sites.

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Nscale Eyes $3B IPO as AI Data Center Builder Races to Meet Surging Infrastructure Demand

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MAHA Activists Push Back Against Trump's Coal-Powered AI Data Centers Plan

Nearly 200 Make America Healthy Again activists signed a letter criticizing Donald Trump's push to use coal power for energy-hungry AI data centers. The letter marks the first major MAHA mobilization over fossil fuels and highlights growing tensions between the health-focused movement and the administration's environmental policy.

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MAHA Activists Push Back Against Trump's Coal-Powered AI Data Centers Plan

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Nvidia Invests in Cloverleaf Infrastructure to Secure AI Data Center Pipeline

Nvidia has taken a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a data center developer founded in 2024. The partnership addresses critical infrastructure bottlenecks threatening AI expansion by securing power, cooling and computing resources for next-generation facilities across the United States.

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Nvidia Invests in Cloverleaf Infrastructure to Secure AI Data Center Pipeline

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Nvidia Strikes $7 Billion Poolside Deal to Build Open-Weight AI Models Against DeepSeek and OpenAI

Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license Poolside's AI model-building software and investing another $1 billion in the startup at a $12 billion valuation. The deal includes hiring 109 Poolside engineers to strengthen Nvidia's Nemotron project as the chipmaker positions itself to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese AI leaders like DeepSeek.

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Nvidia Strikes $7 Billion Poolside Deal to Build Open-Weight AI Models Against DeepSeek and OpenAI

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Brazil Invests $444M in Dual AI Supercomputers, Balancing US and Chinese Partnerships

Brazil announced 2.3 billion reais ($444 million) for two separate AI supercomputer projects—one with China's Huawei and iFlytek worth $251 million, another expected for Nvidia at $193 million. The split strategy reflects Brazil's push for strategic autonomy and national data sovereignty while navigating geopolitical tensions between major powers.

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Brazil Invests $444M in Dual AI Supercomputers, Balancing US and Chinese Partnerships

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Ramp Launches AI Model Router After 3 Years of Internal Use, Cuts Costs by 40%

Corporate expense management platform Ramp unveiled Router, an AI model routing service that connects businesses to multiple large language models through a single API. After three years of internal use that cut Ramp's own AI costs by 30%, early customers are seeing 40% average cost reductions. The move positions Ramp to compete in the booming AI inference market.

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Ramp Launches AI Model Router After 3 Years of Internal Use, Cuts Costs by 40%

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CoreWeave Secures Multi-Year AI Cloud Deal With Hudson River Trading and Rescale Partnership

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Hudson River Trading to power AI-driven trading research using NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and HGX B200 GPU systems. The cloud infrastructure provider also expanded its partnership with Rescale to support AI and simulation workloads across aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, and manufacturing sectors.

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CoreWeave Secures Multi-Year AI Cloud Deal With Hudson River Trading and Rescale Partnership

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SharonAI Stock Plunges 11% Despite Completing $950M AI Cloud Deployment Milestone

SharonAI Holdings completed its initial AI Cloud deployment for a global technology customer under a five-year, $950 million contract, triggering escrowed cash release. But the stock fell 11.3% to $58.03 as investors sold on the news amid broader tech sector weakness, Treasury bond yield pressures, and concerns over a 26 million share secondary offering overhang.

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SharonAI Stock Plunges 11% Despite Completing $950M AI Cloud Deployment Milestone

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Eagle Point Backs $1.3 Billion Loan for Anthropic's Texas AI Data Center in Major Infrastructure Deal

Eagle Point Credit Management is lending $1.3 billion toward a massive 2,900-acre AI data center in Hubbard, Texas, that will house Anthropic as its primary tenant. The mezzanine financing sits within a roughly $16 billion project-finance package, with Google guaranteeing the safer senior debt portions of the deal.

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Eagle Point Backs $1.3 Billion Loan for Anthropic's Texas AI Data Center in Major Infrastructure Deal

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Callosum Secures $100M Seed Funding to Slash AI Workload Costs with Smart Chip Orchestration

Cambridge-based AI startup Callosum raised $100 million in seed funding led by Atomico, with backing from the UK Sovereign AI Fund, Plural, and DCVC. The company's Tailored Inference platform optimizes AI workloads by routing tasks to the most suitable models and chips, promising 7x faster performance and 75% cost reduction compared to conventional GPU setups.

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Callosum Secures $100M Seed Funding to Slash AI Workload Costs with Smart Chip Orchestration

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Germany Launches €7.4 Million AtheneKI Project for AI in Healthcare Crisis Management

Germany is building AI-driven infrastructure to transform crisis management in its healthcare system through the AtheneKI project. Led by the University of Duisburg-Essen and funded with €7.4 million, the initiative integrates hospital, pharmacy, wastewater, and weather data to enable early detection of health crises and support faster decision-making.

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Germany Launches €7.4 Million AtheneKI Project for AI in Healthcare Crisis Management

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Temporal in Talks for $500M Funding Round at $12B Valuation to Power AI Agent Reliability

Temporal Technologies is reportedly negotiating a $500 million funding round that could value the application reliability startup at over $12 billion, more than double its February valuation. The company's Durable Execution platform enables AI agents and long-running workflows to recover from crashes without restarting, addressing a critical infrastructure challenge as AI systems grow more complex.

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Temporal in Talks for $500M Funding Round at $12B Valuation to Power AI Agent Reliability

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