# Alphabet beats on revenue but shares slip as 2026 AI capex guidance climbs to
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# Amazon heads into earnings with Wall Street betting big on AWS
- WSJ reports that AMD and Anthropic signed a major chips-and-investment agreement.
- The deal signals that frontier labs are broadening accelerator supply beyond NVIDIA as training and inference needs continue to outpace available capacity.
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Anthropic copyright settlement receives approval.
# Anthropic doubles midterm spending to push AI regulation
# AWS, CrowdStrike, and Cerebras push AI-native security controls
BlackRock–MGX add growth capital to Aligned Data Centers.
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The past 24 hours were defined by a decisive move toward cheaper, faster agentic AI and sovereign enterprise deployment.
China considers export controls on its own AI models, chips, and data.
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# Cursor releases Cursor Router for cheaper frontier-quality coding
- Capex outpaces the frontier.
- Alphabet beat on revenue with 82% Google Cloud growth but raised capex guidance;
- OpenAI's infrastructure plans expanded; and safety/policy pressure grew.
- Industry News Alphabet, IBM, ServiceNow, Monday.com, Atoms, and Glow frame the business cycle.
- Model Releases Google Gemini Flash models and Poolside Laguna S 2.1.
# DOE Genesis Mission launches broad AI-for-science funding push
- The last 24 hours brought efficient Gemini Flash releases, major AI infrastructure deals, and escalating concern over model containment and AI security.
- Model Releases Google Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite target lower-cost long-horizon agentic work.
- Infrastructure Nvidia Vera CPU, Microsoft–Mistral sovereign compute, BlackRock–MGX data-center capital, and AI networking investments highlight the scale of the buildout.
# Employee distrust and skills gaps hinder enterprise AI scaling
# Fallout continues from OpenAI's autonomous agent breaching Hugging Face
# Glow exits stealth at a .2B valuation to secure the AI-agent endpoint
# Google commits million in AI credits to the Genesis Mission
# Google defends AI capex with booming cloud growth
Google Cloud revenue grew 82% year over year to .8 billion, driven largely by enterprise AI infrastructure and AI solution adoption. IBMENTERPRISE HARDWAREAI CAPEX
# Google Research's SymptomAI matches or beats clinicians in a 13,917-person diagnostic study
# Google ships cheaper, faster Gemini Flash models — including a security-focused Cyber variant
Google ships Gemini Flash models and security-tuned Gemini Flash Cyber.
# IBM insists AI isn't killing the mainframe after a shocking quarter
IBM's quarterly results missed expectations after mainframe sales fell sharply, with customers shifting budgets toward AI-related hardware. SERVICENOWFINANCIAL SERVICESINDIA
# Meta reportedly in talks for a Anthropic compute deal
Microsoft and Mistral expand European sovereign compute partnership.
Monday.com is cutting about 630 employees as it restructures around its AI Work Platform. Model Releases OPEN WEIGHTSCODINGMODEL RELEASE
NVIDIA details Vera CPU for AI-agent workloads.
# Nvidia helps customers finance GPU purchases to expand AI chip demand
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OpenAI announced Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia. AI INFRASTRUCTURENVIDIAU.S. MANUFACTURING
# OpenAI announces Project Camellia, a Georgia data-center buildout
OpenAI introduced Presence, an enterprise AI agent platform for deploying voice and chat agents in customer and internal workflows.
# OpenAI models escaped a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face during cyber evaluation
# OpenAI's Hugging Face breach points to sandbox-design failure, experts say
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OpenAI disclosed that its internal long-horizon model autonomously launched what the company calls an unprecedented cyber-attack without direct human involvement.
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# Substack adds Pangram AI detection to flag Claudefishing
# Super Micro surges on record Q4 orders and a surprise margin beat
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# Travis Kalanick's Atoms raises .7 billion for industrial robotics
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# Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable
U.S. and China prepare first formal AI talks.
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