AI Infrastructure
Context Labs Shapes Abu Dhabi’s Next Chapter in Sovereign AI Data Infrastructure
Backed by 22/x, Context Labs plans to establish an Abu Dhabi headquarters and expand verifiable industrial AI across the Middle East. Abu Dhabi’s latest AI infrastructure investment targets a critical foundation of enterprise intelligence: data that companies can verify, control, and trust. Context Labs is bringing this approach to the Middle East with strategic backing […]
Anthropic IPO: The S-1 Reveals the Cost, Control and Risks Behind Claude’s Growth
Anthropic has filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, revealing a company growing at extraordinary speed but carrying equally unusual financial, infrastructure and governance risks. The Claude maker generated $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, up from $1.16 billion in the same period a year earlier, while reporting […]
Microsoft Leaves Essex AI Datacentre Project as Power Delays Grow
Microsoft has pulled out of an agreement to use computing capacity at Nscale’s planned AI data centre in Loughton, Essex. This means Microsoft will no longer be the site’s main announced customer. The project is also facing a major power problem. The site may have to wait much longer than expected to get enough electricity […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Builds the Full Stack From Agents to Physical AI
AI funding this week looked less like one market and more like an entire technology stack being financed simultaneously. At one end, investors wrote enormous checks for autonomous agents, cybersecurity, GPU infrastructure and physical AI. At the other, smaller rounds targeted sharply defined problems in compliance, construction, insurance, HR, industrial robotics, voice, energy and legal […]
Akamai CTO Robert Blumofe on Trusting AI Agents at Scale
AI rarely looks dangerous in a demo. A model answers a few hundred questions, an agent completes a handful of tasks, and the failure rate appears small enough to ignore. Then the same system reaches production, handles millions of interactions and begins touching real customers, infrastructure and business processes. The tiny error that disappeared inside […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
From ‘Superior Intelligence’ to an ‘AI Force’: Trump’s New AI Push
President Donald Trump is proposing changes to both the language surrounding artificial intelligence and the way his administration oversees its growth. In social-media posts on September 19, Trump first questioned whether “Artificial Intelligence” accurately describes the technology and asked users to choose among three alternatives: Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence and Supreme Intelligence. Later, he said […]
Crusoe Raises $3.9B to Control the AI Stack From Electrons to Tokens
Crusoe began with an awkward contradiction. In oil fields, natural gas was being burned because there was nowhere useful for it to go. Elsewhere, computers were consuming more and more electricity. Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness wondered what would happen if the computers went to the energy instead. They founded Crusoe in 2018 and began […]
Expanse Raises $5.3M to Turn AI’s Most Expensive Guess Into a Prediction
An AI job can wait weeks for its turn on a cluster, run for hours or days, and then disappear with an out-of-memory error because somebody guessed one number wrong. By then, the loss is larger than GPU time. Code has to be checked again. The workload returns to the queue. A researcher who thought […]
EUCLYD Raises €200M to Solve the Hidden Cost Behind Every AI Token
Every AI answer has a hidden commute. Before a model can produce the next word, enormous amounts of information must move between memory and processors. That movement consumes bandwidth, power and money. As AI shifts from models being trained occasionally to models answering requests millions of times a day, EUCLYD believes that journey is becoming […]
Nvidia in Talks to Invest Up to $10B in Anthropic IPO
Nvidia is reportedly considering an investment of up to $10 billion as an anchor investor in Anthropic’s planned initial public offering. The Claude developer is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation near $2 trillion, according to September 11 reporting on confidential discussions. The proposed terms remain under negotiation and could […]