AI is reshaping how companies raise money, hire, and operate. We cover the funding, deals, and tools that matter, with an eye on what Georgian businesses can use or learn from.
Anthropic has teamed up with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's GIC to launch Theseus Infrastructure, a venture that will build and lease US data centers dedicated to running Claude.
Read more →AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches AI models directly into silicon, aiming to boost inference speed and efficiency across its chip lineup.
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Australian AI infrastructure firm Firmus raised $2 billion from Nvidia, Blackstone, Coatue and Jane Street, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5 billion to expand AI data centers across Asia-Pacific.
Read more →Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind's chairman, handing daily operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu as veteran researcher Jeff Dean also departs.
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California now requires large AI image, video, and audio tools to watermark their output and offer a free way to check it. Here's what the law requires, and who it covers.
Read more →The European Commission started enforcing the EU AI Act's transparency rules on August 2, requiring chatbots and deepfakes to disclose AI involvement or risk fines up to 3% of global revenue.
Read more →OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20%, citing GPU efficiency gains, while adding a paid "Fast mode" for its top-tier Sol model.
Read more →AMD and Core Scientific signed a 15-year infrastructure deal worth more than $14 billion, starting with 529 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity in 2027 and room to grow to 2.5 gigawatts.
Read more →GPU cloud provider Nscale has agreed to buy Anyscale, the startup behind the open-source Ray framework, in a deal reported at roughly $1.65 billion.
Read more →The U.S. Commerce Department is giving GlobalFoundries up to $300 million to build optical links for AI chips, part of an $874 million CHIPS push across seven firms.
Read more →ChangXin Memory Technologies raised $8.6 billion in a record Shanghai IPO, then surged as much as 466% on debut, becoming China's most valuable mainland-listed firm and rattling Micron and SK Hynix shares.
Read more →Microsoft unveiled its first in-house cybersecurity AI model and Project Perception, an agentic system meant to find and fix vulnerabilities faster than human teams alone.
Read more →Meta and BlackRock formed a joint venture to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, shifting most of the roughly $14 billion project off Meta's balance sheet.
Read more →Nvidia is in talks to guarantee $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt SoftBank data center in Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.
Read more →Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 billion covering memory, chip manufacturing and packaging for AI accelerators through 2030.
Read more →Huawei Cloud unveiled a new agentic AI infrastructure stack and opened a beta of its CodeArts coding agent in Thailand, expanding its enterprise AI push in Southeast Asia.
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The AI boom shares real warning signs with the dot-com bubble — and real differences. Here's the actual debate over valuations, spending, and revenue, in plain terms.
Read more →OpenAI unveiled Project Camellia, a $20 billion data center in Effingham County, Georgia, its first self-built facility, powered by 3.2 gigawatts from Georgia Power.
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Capital expenditure — capex — is what tech giants spend building AI data centers and chips. Here's what it means when that spending pushes a profitable company's free cash flow negative.
Read more →Alphabet posted its first quarterly free-cash-flow deficit as AI spending pushed capital expenditures to a record $44.9 billion, and raised its 2026 capex outlook to $205 billion.
Read more →AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply as much as 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs, one of the chipmaker's biggest moves yet against Nvidia.
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