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Compute, Infrastructure & Energy
Chips, accelerators, data centres, cloud infrastructure, power, cooling and large-scale AI compute.
Oct 14, 2026 → Oct 17, 2026 · 1 story
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Briefing #6 — AI News Week of 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-13
Oct 3, 2026 → Oct 13, 2026 · 4 stories
NVIDIA and Microsoft put a petaFLOP laptop and a deskside GB300 'token factory' on Windows
NVIDIA / Microsoft
Microsoft makes its own Maia chip the default way it serves AI, at multi-gigawatt scale from 2027
Microsoft
NVIDIA hands its Vera Rubin rack design to OCP, setting an open standard for 250-kilowatt AI factories
NVIDIA (with AMD, Cisco, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Visionbay, TE Connectivity, Amphenol, Vertiv, OCP community)
NVIDIA attaches a self-valued $1 billion to US science - as compute, not cash
NVIDIA
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Briefing #4 — AI News Week of 2026-09-26 to 2026-10-02
Sep 26, 2026 → Oct 2, 2026 · 2 stories
Historical Coverage
Briefing #3 — AI News Week of 2026-09-22 to 2026-09-25
Sep 22, 2026 → Sep 25, 2026 · 1 story
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Briefing #1 — AI News Week of 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-17
Sep 10, 2026 → Sep 17, 2026 · 4 stories
Anthropic signs first Australian data-centre lease: A$32B, 2.16GW Western Downs Digital Park (Zerra DC, Dalby)
Anthropic / Zerra DC
MLPerf Inference v6.1 released with 30 submitters, Vera Rubin NVL72 debut, new E2E-RAG and Edge-Agentic workloads
MLCommons
Meta unveils MTIA 450 and MTIA 500 AI accelerator pair for gigawatt-scale in-house inference
Meta
NVIDIA, Google, Anthropic and utilities launch AI Energy Management Alliance
NVIDIA / Google / Anthropic / National Grid / AES / Constellation / NRG / RWE
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