According to Bloomberg, AI infrastructure company Verda completed a US$189 million financing round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Super Micro Computer and others, at a post-financing valuation of at least US$1 billion.
According to reports, Anthropic is in early talks with Stream Data Centers to directly lease up to 1GW of data center capacity; the deal's scale remains undecided and it may not be completed.
Alibaba announced that it will establish its first cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland, and the Netherlands within the next 12 months, while expanding data centers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Jensen Huang advocates addressing AI risks through pre-release product validation and traditional engineering methods; the report says the Trump administration’s AI safety stance is increasingly echoing this view.