The Canadian government has committed to backing $50 billion in new clean energy project investments, one of the largest national commitments to clean energy infrastructure reported globally this year.
Climate Investment Partners has raised $3 billion for a new clean energy infrastructure fund, adding to a wave of large-scale capital commitments toward the global energy transition reported this week.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is reportedly courting America's largest cloud computing companies for infrastructure partnerships, part of a broader push by Chinese AI developers to secure compute capacity beyond their domestic market.
SpaceX is reportedly planning a $100 billion launch complex, a scale of investment that would represent one of the largest single infrastructure commitments in the history of the commercial space industry.
Samsung has unveiled LPDDR5X-PIM, a new processing-in-memory design detailed at Hot Chips 2026 that the company says delivers up to 2.28 times faster model runtime and eightfold peak bandwidth gains for AI inference workloads.
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip now outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell systems on AI work per watt in benchmark testing, a milestone that signals the growing race among leading AI labs to control their own compute infrastructure.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, closing the human-work marketplace that helped power the data-labelling and annotation work underpinning much of the early machine-learning era.
Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion to settle claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to teenagers, one of the largest settlements yet in the escalating global reckoning over social media's impact on youth mental health.
Dubai-based startup Stellaria has raised AED 25 million, approximately $6.8 million, in a seed funding round backed by angel investors, valuing the company at AED 420 million.
Vietnamese co-living startup M Village, recently rebranded as Modern Village Lifestyle, has raised $26 million in a round led by Japan's Mizuho Asia Partners, more than doubling its valuation to approximately $121.4 million.