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Softbank's son Masayoshi presented a joint American sovereign fund for senior DC and Tokyo officials to support major technology and infrastructure projects in the United States (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 26, 2025

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AWS says that it plans to invest $ 4 billion to build its first data centers and cloud infrastructure in Chile, to open its doors in H2 2026, and will try to use a minimum of water (Fabian Cambero / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2025

Fabian Cambero / Reuters:: AWS says that it plans to invest $ 4 billion to build its first data centers…

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An AI overview is used to reduce carbon emissions: Calculate fuel economical driving models, monitoring of grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2025

Coco Liu / Bloomberg:: An AI overview is used to reduce carbon emissions: calculate fuel efficient driving models, monitoring of…

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Bytedance, which spent about $ 11 billion in 2024 on AI infrastructure, uses data from ~ 1B users of its applications as a pin at the head of its growing AI company (Meaghan Tobin / New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 12, 2025

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Nexthop AI launches with $ 110 million in seeds and series, funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, offering hardware and software for AI Cloud Infrastructure (Kyt Dotson / Siliconangle)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2025

Kyt Dotson / Silicion:: Nexthop AI launches with $ 110 million in seeds and series, funding led by Lightspeed Ventures,…

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Alibaba undertakes to invest more than $ 53 billion in IA infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2025

Bloomberg:: Alibaba undertakes to invest more than $ 53 billion in AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next…

‘Seismic shift’ to Australia’s orbit likely under new Solomon Islands PM – Radio Free Asia

The fall of Victory Day in Kazakhstan – The Diplomat

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

Pakistan and the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment in 18 occupations exposed to AI decreased by 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the US labor market as a whole increased by 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

Los Angeles-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-based cross-border banking and payments services in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, has raised a $51 million Series B round (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Electricity prices on the largest U.S. power grid, operated by PJM, jumped 76% year-over-year to an average of $136.53/MWh in the first quarter due to rampant data center demand (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Browsing: infrastructure

Softbank's son Masayoshi presented a joint American sovereign fund for senior DC and Tokyo officials to support major technology and infrastructure projects in the United States (Financial Times)

AWS says that it plans to invest $ 4 billion to build its first data centers and cloud infrastructure in Chile, to open its doors in H2 2026, and will try to use a minimum of water (Fabian Cambero / Reuters)

An AI overview is used to reduce carbon emissions: Calculate fuel economical driving models, monitoring of grid infrastructure, and more (Coco Liu / Bloomberg)

Bytedance, which spent about $ 11 billion in 2024 on AI infrastructure, uses data from ~ 1B users of its applications as a pin at the head of its growing AI company (Meaghan Tobin / New York Times)

Nexthop AI launches with $ 110 million in seeds and series, funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, offering hardware and software for AI Cloud Infrastructure (Kyt Dotson / Siliconangle)

Alibaba undertakes to invest more than $ 53 billion in IA infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years (Bloomberg)