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Lambda’s £2.1bn pre-IPO talks put neoclouds back into focus
Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider Lambda is reportedly in talks to raise as much as £2.1 billion ($3 billion), weeks after securing a separate £678 million ($926 million) debt financing to... Read More
Anthropic’s IPO valuation is being built on $190bn revenue expectations
Anthropic’s prospective IPO valuation is being shaped by revenue expectations extending to 2028, according to Reuters, as investors attempt to price one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI market.... Read More
Quantinuum and Oracle bring hybrid quantum compute into the cloud
Quantinuum and Oracle have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy Helios, Quantinuum’s third-generation quantum computer, inside a US-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI data centre. The companies said OCI... Read More
NVIDIA and major financial firms back AI compute financing platforms
NVIDIA has announced strategic partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent compute financing platforms aimed at mobilising more than £369.7 billion ($500 billion) of... Read More
Zuckerberg turns superintelligence into a debate about access, power, and control
Mark Zuckerberg has argued that the defining question around superintelligence is not when it will arrive, but who will have access to it. In a Wall Street Journal essay, the... Read More
Microsoft and Mistral expand European AI infrastructure partnership
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership through a multibillion-dollar agreement that gives Microsoft access to part of Mistral’s Europe-based GPU infrastructure. Mistral is expanding its AI compute capacity... Read More
Can AI workloads follow renewable energy?
UK technology company Easy Compute is deploying AI computing hardware alongside renewable energy generation on farms, using electricity produced from agricultural waste to support AI workloads. The model, operated through... Read More
Apple loses challenge against EU Digital Markets Act rules
Apple has lost its challenge against key provisions of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), with the General Court upholding the company’s designation as a gatekeeper for both the... Read More
US Supreme Court Ruling Raises Questions Over Transatlantic Data Transfers
A recent US Supreme Court ruling has prompted privacy campaigners to question one of the legal assumptions underpinning data transfers between Europe and the United States. The decision in Trump... Read More
More Than Half of UK Organisations Want Greater Cloud Control
New research from UK cloud provider Civo suggests that many organisations want greater control over where their cloud infrastructure and AI workloads operate. According to the research, 66% of UK... Read More
GCHQ’s Cyber Warning Highlights the Security Risk Most Organisations Still Overlook
GCHQ Director Anne Keast-Butler’s recent warning that Russia is “relentlessly targeting” UK critical infrastructure, democratic systems, and public trust reflects growing concern around how cyber threats are affecting operational systems... Read More
Trust, Threats, and the Limits of Preparedness
Day 2 of the Cloud, AI & Cyber Security keynote track at Tech Show Frankfurt moved away from systems and architectures and into the conditions in which those systems are... Read More