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DeepInfra and Cerebras are adding AI inference capacity in Toronto and Europe, while a 515-startup field experiment argues that AI gains depend on workflow redesign—not merely giving teams access to tools. In this episode: Top stories: 1. DeepInfra Expands AI Inference Capacity with First International Data Center in Toronto | National Post — National Post https://nationalpost.com/globe-newswire/d...

Meta will build a C$13 billion Alberta data centre, while DeepInfra opens a Toronto inference cluster with 1,000-plus Blackwell GPUs. Canada is turning into a serious AI compute battleground, from gigawatt campuses to latency-sensitive serving. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data center, its first in Canada - The Hindu — The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/sci-t...

Anthropic and TeraWulf’s 401MW Kentucky lease leads a data-center finance day: Mels Dees at Techzine and Ana-Maria Stanciuc at The Next Web trace how AI capacity is moving through long leases, bank debt, and power delivery. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AI company signs $19 billion lease on Hancock County site | State News | thenewsenterprise.com — The News-Enterprise https://www.thenewsenterpr...

Anthropic’s $19 billion TeraWulf lease, reported by Georgia Butler at DCD, anchors a compute-heavy episode; South Korea adds GS Group and telco-scale AI data-center plans, while new Nature papers benchmark where AI methods still break. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf - DCD — Datacenter Dynamics https://www.datacenterdynam...

SK Telecom’s 15GW Korea data-center plan and Anthropic’s reported 1.4GW Australia tender show AI infrastructure scaling from clusters to national megaprojects, while IBM’s ScreenParse targets a lower-level bottleneck: screen grounding for computer-use agents. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SK Telecom targets 15GW AI data center network in Korea's biggest-ever infrastructure push - The Herald Bus...

SK Telecom’s 15-gigawatt Korea AI data-center plan leads a capital-heavy infrastructure push, with SK hynix pledging KRW 100 trillion for NAND and packaging while Nvidia, CPP Investments, and Crusoe chase new financing models for AI compute. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SK Telecom plans 15GW AI data center buildout across Korea by 2035 - The Korea Times — The Korea Times https://www.koreatimes...

SK Telecom put a $91.5 billion AI data-center plan into South Korea’s Yeongnam region, while SoftBank, China Mobile, and Microsoft added their own compute buildouts. The AI race is reading less like model hype and more like grid-scale industrial policy. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SKT to invest $91.5 bil. for 'hyperscale' AI data centers in Yeongnam - The Korea Times — The Korea Times https:/...

Anthropic’s Claude models cleared U.S. export curbs as Meta weighed selling spare AI compute and SK, National Grid, and Firmus lined up enormous power-and-data-center bets, showing the AI race moving from model demos to supply chains and grid access. In this episode: Top stories: 1. National Grid Ventures to invest $1.75bn to accelerate power solutions for U.S. data centers and AI — PR Newswire ht...

Samsung and SK Hynix are part of South Korea’s expanding AI-infrastructure bet, with Heekyong Yang reporting chip pledges and Gigi Onag detailing an 18.4GW data-center plan; Google, AWS and Ars fill in model-speed and AI-browser-risk moves. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Samsung and SK Hynix’s mega South Korea chips gamble tests optimism of AI cycle - The Japan Times — The Japan Times https://ww...

South Korea’s $1T AI infrastructure push leads as SiliconANGLE’s Maria Deutscher reports Samsung and SK hynix are anchoring a massive fab buildout, while CoreWeave and Nixxy add new AI data-center capacity in Europe and North Dakota. In this episode: Top stories: 1. South Korea launches $584B chip manufacturing initiative with Samsung, SK hynix - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.co...

GS Group’s 30 trillion won AI data-center plan leads a week of hard-infrastructure bets, with Amazon expanding AWS in India, AMD and Rackspace locking in 30 MW of compute, and the New York Times sharpening its Microsoft-OpenAI copyright claims. In this episode: Top stories: 1. GS Group to Invest 30 Trillion Won in Asia's Largest AI Data Center | Aju Press — Aju Press https://m.ajupress.com/view/20...

Anthropic accused Alibaba of racing to clone Claude and urged Congress to punish Chinese labs, while Valor’s Daniela Braun reports Ada Infrastructure is putting R$2.7bn into Brazil data centers. The stakes: model IP, compute supply, and what AI buildout numbers really mean. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack — Ars Technica htt...

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip, while Groq, Microsoft, Blackstone and CoreWeave pushed fresh capital and capacity into AI infrastructure. The center of gravity is shifting from model demos to inference cost, power, and buildout scale. In this episode: Top stories: 1. OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale — Ars Technica https://ars...

Meta AI reportedly plans open-source releases under Alexandr Wang as scrutiny rises over benchmark-driven “state of the art” claims; the stakes are whether builders can trust model scores and licensing strategies without independent, reproducible evidence. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Step Back: When an AI company says its new model is ‘state of the art’ because it beat a benchmark, what shoul...

Senate AI moratorium rejection leaves companies facing a patchwork of targeted state rules, while an arXiv survey of 283 LLM benchmarks flags contamination, bias, and weak process evaluation as core measurement risks. In this episode: Top stories: 1. A Survey on Large Language Model Benchmarks — arXiv https://arxiv.org/html/2508.15361v1 2. Step Back: Now that the Senate has rejected the proposed A...

Anthropic and Google DeepMind CEOs used the G7 to push for a U.S.-led AI coalition, CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz reports, raising the stakes for how frontier labs want democratic governments to coordinate on AI policy and infrastructure. In this episode: Top stories: 1. CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7 — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropi...

SpaceX and Cursor headline the AI coding market as Samuel Axon at Ars Technica reports a $60 billion all-stock deal, putting developer tools, model-training compute, and enterprise AI distribution inside Elon Musk’s newly public stack. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/spacex-will-acquire-c...

Bloomberg’s Anurag Rana reports Oracle plans to deploy 50,000 AMD MI450 chips; Menlo Ventures’ Tim Tully, Joff Redfern, Deedy Das and Derek Xiao argue enterprise AI adoption is still outrunning bubble fears. The through-line: infrastructure commitments are getting harder to dismiss as theater. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AMD Says Oracle Is Pledging Widespread Use of New AI Chips — Bloomberg h...

CoreWeave and Meta are expanding a $21 billion AI cloud agreement, underscoring how hyperscale model demand is still being converted into long-term GPU capacity commitments. In this episode: Top stories: 1. CoreWeave and Meta Expand $21B AI Cloud Deal — CoreWeave https://www.coreweave.com/news/coreweave-and-meta-announce-21-billion-expanded-ai-infrastructure-agreement Follow and rate AI Daily Brie...

Oracle’s $55.7 billion data-center spend and planned $40 billion raise frame AI’s infrastructure crunch, while Nebius expands in the UK and Colorado and Connecticut redraw state AI rules for deployers, companions, and frontier models. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Oracle spent $55.7B on data centres, plans to raise $40B more — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-q4-fy2026-capex-55-b...

TensorWave raised $350 million to scale an AMD-only AI cloud as Meta leased 168MW from Reliance in India and Nebius locked 22MW in the UK, underscoring how model demand is turning into hard power, cooling and GPU capacity. In this episode: Top stories: 1. TensorWave Raises $350M to Expand AI Infrastructure - Ventureburn — Ventureburn https://ventureburn.com/tensorwave-raises-350m-to-expand-ai-infr...

New York and Connecticut pushed AI governance from debate into enforceable rules, while Columbia and Cohere shipped long-context compression and open coding models that target inference cost and control for builders. In this episode: Top stories: 1. NY FAIR News Act Passes in State Legislature — TheWrap https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-policy-legal/new-york-fair-news-act-ai-disclosure/...

Trump’s NSPM-11 orders faster military AI adoption as Washington tightens controls on frontier models, while Moonshot’s $30 billion target and SK Telecom’s Nvidia buildout show the capital-and-compute race accelerating across China and Korea. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Trump signs NSPM-11 to rush AI into military, block China — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-orders-the-milita...

SoftBank, Nebius and Naver are stacking up multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure bets across France, the UK and Korea, while DeepProve pushes verifiable LLM inference and Generalist AI raises $400 million for robotics foundation models. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SoftBank Group to Build 5 GW of AI Data Center Capacity in France | SoftBank Group Corp. — SoftBank Group Corp. https://group.soft...