Anthropic announced a $50 billion partnership with U.K.-based Fluidstack to build custom data centers in Texas and New York, slated for completion through 2026. The facilities are designed to support the compute‑intensive Claude models and reflect Anthropic’s push for dedicated infrastructure alongside existing cloud ties with Google and Amazon. The move positions Anthropic among rivals such as Meta and the SoftBank‑OpenAI‑Oracle consortium, whose infrastructure spending dwarfs the new project. Fluidstack, a rising neocloud provider, gains a high‑profile client and further credibility in the rapidly expanding AI‑hardware market. Leia mais →

Google Cloud is focusing on early‑stage AI companies, offering $350,000 in cloud credits, technical assistance, and go‑to‑market support. The firm promotes an open AI stack that spans custom TPUs, foundation models and applications, aiming to win future unicorns before they grow large. Partnerships include TPU deployments with Fluidstack and collaborations with startups such as Loveable and Windsurf, while Google also hosts Anthropic’s Claude and provides TPUs to OpenAI. The strategy reflects Google’s broader commitment to open‑source tools and comes amid regulatory scrutiny of its search dominance. Leia mais →