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Microsoft will pump $10 billion into Japan between 2026 and 2029, covering AI data centers, cybersecurity infrastructure, and workforce training. Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the investment during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo. The deal, equivalent to roughly ¥1.6 trillion, is the company’s largest single commitment to the country and nearly four times the $2.9 billion it pledged in April 2024. Microsoft Building Inside Japan The core of the investment is physical infrastructure. Microsoft will expand in-country AI infrastructure through partnerships with SoftBank and Sakura Internet, enabling GPU-based AI computing accessible through Azure while keeping…

DeepSeek is weeks away from launching V4, its most powerful AI model yet, and the chip choice at the center of that release may be more consequential than the model itself. According to a report by The Information, cited by Reuters, DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model will run on Huawei chips rather than the Nvidia hardware that powers most large AI systems today. DeepSeek has spent recent months working closely with Huawei and domestic chipmaker Cambricon Technologies to adapt parts of the model’s underlying code and conduct testing, and is also developing two additional V4 variants, each designed for different capabilities…

On April 1, 2026, NASA launched Artemis II, the first crewed flight of the Artemis program and the first time humans have traveled beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The mission carries four astronauts on a roughly 10-day journey around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the crew. The Artemis II Crew and What They Represent Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B. Glover, Koch, and Hansen have already made history as the first Black…

The drone strikes that hit Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the Gulf region in March 2026 were not meant to only serve as a cyberattack. They were physical attacks, conveying a message that corporate infrastructure can also become a target during a military operation. Iranian Shahed drones struck two AWS data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before dawn on March 1st, and a third facility in Bahrain was also hit. AWS confirmed structural damage, power disruption, fire, and water damage from firefighting systems across the affected sites. These were the first known military strikes ever carried out…

Two of China’s biggest tech companies just put 10,000 AI chips to work in the same week, and the implications of this deployment goes beyond the country’s borders. Alibaba announced the deployment of a 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster powered by its Zhenwu AI chips and built in collaboration with China Telecom at the Shaoguan data centre in Guangdong province. The launch came shortly after Shenzhen, a city dubbed as “China’s Silicon Valley,” activated the country’s first 10,000-card cluster built entirely on Huawei’s Ascend 910C chips, which provides 11,000 petaflops of computing capacity. Together, these two deployments represent a concrete step…

When OpenAI stepped back from expanding its AI data center footprint in Abilene, Texas, Microsoft stepped right in. The tech giant’s move in Abilene, Texas is more than a lease or a buildout as it adds two new AI data center buildings and a 900-megawatt power plant to a site already central to OpenAI and Oracle’s Stargate project, bringing the campus to 10 buildings and about 2.1 gigawatts of planned capacity. The deal shows how quickly the AI arms race is turning into a contest over land, power, and compute, and not just over software and model quality. The Abilene…

The contest to lead in the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race has moved well beyond who has the best model. What separates the front-runners today is their ability to control the physical infrastructure from advanced chips to reliable electricity and power and to high-speed data networks. These three have become the pillars holding up AI infrastructure and the investments reflect just how seriously tech giants are using the pillars to lay a secure foundation for their AI ambitions. The Numbers Behind the Three Pillars Amazon has projected a rough $200 billion for its spending on AI development for 2026 alone,…

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has placed 18 major U.S. technology companies on a formal list of targets, framing them as their next targets to attack amid the ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, which is linked to the IRGC, published a list of major U.S. tech companies as potential targets, warning that as the conflict expands across infrastructure, cyberwarfare, and regional dimensions, Iran’s legitimate targets are also gradually expanding. The list names 17 American companies, including Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, J.P.…

Mistral AI is taking on a large debt package to secure chips and build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, rather than selling more of the company’s equity, a decision that says as much about today’s AI funding playbook as it does about the fast‑rising European startup. The move also highlights how capital‑intensive building AI compute and infrastructure has become and how credit markets are quickly becoming a primary way to pay for that compute. What Mistral AI Is Doing With The Money   French startup Mistral AI has secured about $830 million in its first major debt financing, backed by a consortium…

The longest service disruption from DeepSeek to date has raised fresh questions about whether the fast‑rising Chinese AI company is ready for the demands of a truly global user base. The seven‑plus‑hour outage hit both regular users and developers, cutting access to one of China’s most visible competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, especially at a time when expectations around reliability in AI tools are increasing. What Happened To DeepSeek On March 30, DeepSeek’s flagship chatbot went offline for 7 hours and 13 minutes, in what the company itself labeled a “major outage” on its public status page. The disruption had begun…