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Anthropic Signs $45B Compute Deal With British Infrastructure Firm Nscale
Matched: AI, OpenAI
Anthropic has signed a $45 billion, six-year compute deal with British AI infrastructure firm Nscale, which will supply capacity built on Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips from a West Virginia data center, with services expected to begin in late 2027. The agreement is part of Anthropic's aggressive recent expansion, which has also included deals with Volta, AMD, SpaceX, Amazon, Google, and Broadcom over the past eight months.
AI Infrastructure Race Accelerates As OpenAI Unveils Jalapeño Chip Results And Redefines Agentic Product Design
Matched: AI, ChatGPT, OpenAI
OpenAI revealed benchmark results for Jalapeño, its Broadcom-developed inference chip, showing it outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell system on tokens per user and throughput per kilowatt. Small-volume deployment is expected by end of 2026. The company also showcased ChatGPT Work, a $20/month agentic product extending automation to general white-collar workflows, though adoption remains largely internal.
Hugging Face Approached For Acquisition At $13B Valuation, Report Says
Matched: AI, OpenAI
Hugging Face has received acquisition approaches valuing the AI developer platform at $13 billion or more, per Business Insider. No deal has been reached and the parties involved are unclear, though the company has engaged banks to evaluate bids. Hugging Face last raised at a $4.5 billion valuation in 2023 and earlier this year declined a $500 million Nvidia investment worth $7 billion over concerns about single-investor influence.
Top U.S. States for AI Data Centers And Infrastructure Growth
Matched: AI, Artificial Intelligence
A TRG Datacenters study ranks Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas as the top five U.S. states for AI data center growth, weighing capacity, electricity use, and environmental pressures. Virginia topped the index despite lacking the most facilities, while Texas ranked fifth despite leading in large sites, partly because nearly 59% of its facilities sit in high water-stress areas. Ohio led in total power capacity at 1,410 megawatts. The findings highlight that resource availability increasingly determines where AI infrastructure can sustainably expand.
Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands
Matched: AI, OpenAI
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform, in a deal Reuters values at over $8 billion. OpenRouter gives developers access to 400+ models from 80+ providers through a single API, routing requests based on cost, speed, reliability, and data-handling requirements. The acquisition complements Stripe's existing token-based billing tools. OpenRouter reports processing over 10 trillion tokens daily across more than 10 million developers.
AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law
Matched: AI, OpenAI
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order requiring data centre developers to sign binding agreements accepting conditions before permits are reviewed, alongside securing local approval. The order bans NDAs for state agencies, mandates public disclosure of energy and water use, requires developers to cover grid costs rather than passing them to residents, and places data centres last in line during power curtailments. No new legislation was needed — existing permitting authority made it possible.