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Recursive Superintelligence Signs $410M Amazon Deal

Jul 29, 2026

Recursive Superintelligence Signs $410M Amazon Deal

AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has committed the bulk of its fundraising capital to a massive compute agreement with Amazon, signaling how aggressively new entrants are betting on infrastructure access as the core competitive advantage in the race toward advanced AI.

AI

Startups

Cloud Computing

DFINITY's Cloud Engine Makes Sovereignty a Technical Fact

Jul 27, 2026

DFINITY's Cloud Engine Makes Sovereignty a Technical Fact

DFINITY founder Dominique Williams argues that cloud sovereignty can't be achieved through contracts with hyperscalers — it requires cryptographically enforced infrastructure. With the Swiss Subnet live at Davos and Pakistan building a national deployment, the Internet Computer protocol is moving from theory to state-scale practice.

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Decentralization

AI

Google's Cloud Boom Justifies Its AI Spending Spree

Jul 23, 2026

Google's Cloud Boom Justifies Its AI Spending Spree

Google reported record profits in Q2 2026, with its cloud division emerging as the clearest evidence yet that its massive AI infrastructure bets are paying off. Enterprise adoption of Google's AI tools and cloud services is accelerating, giving the company a financial narrative to match its capital ambitions. Here's what the numbers mean for the broader AI market.

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Google

Data Centers on Track to Use 4x More Power by 2035

Jul 22, 2026

Data Centers on Track to Use 4x More Power by 2035

A new analysis projects that global data center electricity demand will quadruple by 2035, driven overwhelmingly by AI workloads. New facilities built through 2033 alone could match India's entire national power consumption — a sobering benchmark for an industry racing to scale.

AI

Data Centers

Infrastructure

AWS Billing Bug Showed Customers Bills Worth Billions

Jul 17, 2026

AWS Billing Bug Showed Customers Bills Worth Billions

A bug in AWS's billing system generated wildly inflated invoice estimates, leaving some customers staring at statements claiming they owed billions of dollars. Amazon confirmed the issue and said it is actively working on a fix. No actual charges were processed.

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Cloud Computing

Enterprise AI

Meta Wants to Sell Excess AI Compute, Rival AWS

Jul 1, 2026

Meta Wants to Sell Excess AI Compute, Rival AWS

Meta is building plans for a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to its AI compute power and models. The move would put it in direct competition with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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Cloud Computing

AI Infrastructure