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Infra2026-06-05 · source-backed
One of the largest single-country infrastructure commitments to date (TechCrunch). The hyperscale buildout is escalating into South Asia as demand outruns existing capacity. Meanwhile Meta is standing up capacity in literal tents borrowed from Tesla's playbook (TechCrunch), and Kevin O'Leary halved a 40,000-acre Utah site under community pressure (The Verge). The compute land-grab is hitting physical limits: fabs, power, water, and neighbors who vote.
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The person who coined "vibe coding" and co-founded OpenAI just chose Anthropic. TechCrunch confirmed on May 19 that Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team, where he'll start a new group using Claude to accelerate pre-training research under team lead Nick Jos...
Electrek reported on a NHTSA filing for a July 6, 2025 crash in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, where a 2019 Model 3 ran a stop sign at a logged pre-crash speed of 4 mph and struck a Honda Civic turning left, killing 82-year-old Stephen Field. Tesla's report confirms driver-...
Announced July 9. The former Fed Chair and 2022 Nobel laureate joins the independent body that can appoint members to Anthropic's board and advises leadership on decisions involving AI risk and societal impact, alongside Neil Buddy Shah (Chair), Richard Fontaine, and Mariano-F...
The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
TechCrunch aggregated the compute, data center, and chip deals to roughly the GDP of Sweden (TechCrunch). It's commitments, not cash on hand, which sharpens rather than softens the question of how a company at a fraction of that revenue run rate funds it. For builders the read...
Sandhya Devanathan departs after more than a decade to run consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia, based in Singapore, reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. It follows Prabhjeet Sin...
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