Chips & Data Centers

Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.

Oct 20, 2026

AstraZeneca and Oracle Partner on AI for Clinical Trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle will combine clinical expertise, health data, cloud infrastructure, and AI to support trial recruitment, diagnosis, safety monitoring, and care workflows.

Oct 20, 2026

CBRE agrees to acquire Onnec for up to £760 million

CBRE agrees to acquire data center infrastructure provider Onnec for an initial £460 million in cash, plus an earnout of up to £300 million.

Oct 20, 2026

San Francisco Mall AI Data Center Plan Faces Permit Freeze

A confidential client is exploring buying the closed San Francisco Centre mall to turn its upper floors into a data center and AI lab, as the city pauses data center permits.

Oct 20, 2026

Elice Shares Plunge 33% in Seoul Trading Debut

Elice shares fell as much as 33% on their first day of trading after the AI infrastructure company raised 201 billion won in its IPO.

Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI stops pushing for China chip export limits, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pressing lawmakers for new chip export limits on China, aides and lobbyists told Politico, a shift that helps Nvidia.

Oct 20, 2026

G42 and AMI Labs Explore World Models for Physical AI

G42, AMI Labs and Analog signed nonbinding agreements covering world model research, AI infrastructure, cloud services and possible industrial applications.

Oct 20, 2026

Google to Fund Grid Upgrades for Expanded Arkansas Data Center

Google will cover new power resources and grid upgrades for its expanded West Memphis data center campus. Entergy Arkansas projects at least $500 million in additional customer savings over 20 years.

Oct 20, 2026

DeepSeek and Huawei Collaborate on Ascend AI Chips

DeepSeek plans to invest in Huawei's AI chip design and help improve Ascend processors for training large language models.

Oct 20, 2026

NVIDIA Open Sources Full Run:ai Platform

NVIDIA has released the full Run:ai platform as open source software, including four modular tools for scheduling workloads and managing GPU resources on Kubernetes.

Oct 20, 2026

AWS Adds Structured Outputs for Claude Models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs for all available Anthropic Claude models, providing JSON responses and tool parameters that conform to developer defined schemas.

Oct 20, 2026

Greece Inaugurates €58.9 Million Daedalus Supercomputer for AI Research

Greece has inaugurated Daedalus, a €58.9 million supercomputer built to support AI applications and scientific research. The system delivers measured performance of 85.69 petaflops and ranks 31st on the TOP500 list.

Oct 20, 2026

US sanctions five Chinese entities tied to Google AI trade secret theft

The US imposed sanctions on Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, MiraclePlus and three related entities following the conviction of former Google engineer Ding Linwei for stealing AI trade secrets.

Oct 20, 2026

Anthropic and Nscale Near Second $45 Billion Compute Deal

Anthropic and Nscale are reportedly nearing another $45 billion compute agreement after signing a deal of the same size in August. Discussions remain underway, and the terms could change.

Oct 19, 2026

S&P Global Warns of Hidden AI Debt at Major Tech Companies

S&P Global says major technology companies may have more liabilities tied to AI infrastructure than public disclosures show, but it does not currently plan to change their credit ratings.

Oct 19, 2026

Nova Scotia Opposition Seeks Emergency Debate on Anthropic Data Centre

Nova Scotia opposition parties want an emergency legislative sitting to examine consultation, regulation and power costs for EverWind Fuels' planned Anthropic data centre.

Oct 19, 2026

Deepgram Runs Nova-3 on AWS Trainium2 With Up to 70% More Audio per Dollar

Deepgram ported its Nova-3 speech recognition model to AWS Trainium2 for offline batch workloads. The resulting setup processed 11% to 70% more audio per dollar than its previous compute options.

Oct 19, 2026

Vanderbilt Report Proposes Defense Production Act Controls for AI Chip Demand

A Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator report proposes using the Defense Production Act to reserve scarce memory chips for industries outside AI.

Oct 19, 2026

Modal Adds Nvidia Vera CPUs for AI Agents

Modal plans to deploy Nvidia Vera CPUs for AI agents after tests showed they completed twice as much work as its current processors.

Oct 19, 2026

Wisconsin DNR to Review AI Data Center Impacts Statewide

Wisconsin regulators will conduct a statewide environmental review of AI data center growth under a settlement over permits for the $15 billion Lighthouse campus.

Oct 19, 2026

AWS Opens Trainium Chips to Existing PyTorch Code

TorchNeuron lets developers run existing PyTorch code on AWS Trainium chips with a configuration change instead of a rewrite.

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