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Amazon Data Centre In Telangana Draws Rs 1 Lakh Crore Investment Request

Press Trust of India reported that Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy laid the foundation stone for an Amazon data centre at Bharat Future City and asked the company to invest Rs 1 lakh crore by 2034. The report lists Amazon India cloud targets, but not the site capacity, anchor customers or power arrangements.

#Amazon Web Services #Telangana #Bharat Future City

July 17, 2026Read More →

General Compute Lands $400 Million Loan For Inference Chips

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General Compute Lands $400 Million Loan For Inference Chips

TechCrunch reported that General Compute landed a $400 million Upper90 loan backed by inference-specific chips, extending chip-backed AI infrastructure financing beyond GPUs. The company did not disclose chip quantities, loan pricing, customer contracts, utilisation commitments or revenue.

#General Compute #Upper90 #AI inference chips

July 17, 2026Read More →

Hugging Face Says AI Agent Drove Production Infrastructure Intrusion

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Hugging Face Says AI Agent Drove Production Infrastructure Intrusion

Hugging Face said an autonomous AI agent system drove an intrusion into part of its production infrastructure, reaching internal datasets and service credentials. The company said public models, datasets and Spaces were not tampered with, while its assessment of partner or customer data remains unfinished.

#cybersecurity #Hugging Face #AI agent intrusion

July 17, 2026Read More →

Nvidia Japan AI Factory Plan Lists 140MW Capacity

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Nvidia Japan AI Factory Plan Lists 140MW Capacity

Tech Wire Asia reported that Nvidia’s Japan expansion includes a 140-megawatt AI factory using 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs for the METI-backed FRONTia Project. The report did not name the site, capital cost, power supplier, construction timetable or first enterprise workloads.

#NVIDIA Vera Rubin #Japan FRONTia Project #physical AI

July 17, 2026Read More →

South Korea Targets Year-End Launch For Security AI Model

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South Korea Targets Year-End Launch For Security AI Model

The Register reported that South Korea is developing a security-focused AI model for sovereign bug-finding capability, with Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon linking the work to Anthropic Mythos. The report did not disclose the training dataset, project budget, benchmarks or deployment terms.

#South Korea AI #sovereign AI #AI security model

July 17, 2026Read More →

Open-Weight AI Model Backdoor Test Costs Less Than $100

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Open-Weight AI Model Backdoor Test Costs Less Than $100

The Register reported that Katie Paxton-Fear installed a backdoor in an open-weight AI model in about an hour for less than $100. The experiment points to model-poisoning risk, but the cited public examples do not identify a widely deployed poisoned model or affected customers.

#open weight AI models #AI supply chain security #model poisoning

July 17, 2026Read More →

7-Eleven Philippines Extends Cashless Payments Past 4,000 Stores

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7-Eleven Philippines Extends Cashless Payments Past 4,000 Stores

Company records put cashless payment acceptance at more than 1,000 7-Eleven stores at the end of 2025 and more than 4,000 by the end of May 2026.

#7 Eleven Philippines #Philippine Seven Corp.#cashless payments

July 17, 2026Read More →

Xi Backs Shanghai AI Governance Body After 29-Country Deal

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Xi Backs Shanghai AI Governance Body After 29-Country Deal

CNBC reported that Xi Jinping used a Shanghai AI speech to position China as a Global South technology partner after 29 countries signed an agreement to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. The address named cooperation with ASEAN, the African Union and BRICS, but did not identify WAICO members, funding or enforcement powers.

#China AI policy #Xi Jinping #World AI Conference

July 17, 2026Read More →

US Lawmakers Seek Ban On Chinese Memory Purchases

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US Lawmakers Seek Ban On Chinese Memory Purchases

Representatives John Moolenaar and George Whitesides urged the Commerce Department to restrict US purchases from YMTC and CXMT as memory prices are expected to stay high through at least 2028.

#Chinese memory chips #YMTC #CXMT

July 17, 2026Read More →

Fireworks Raises $1.5B As AI Platform Reaches $17.5B Valuation

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Fireworks Raises $1.5B As AI Platform Reaches $17.5B Valuation

Fireworks AI raised a $1.5 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, SiliconANGLE reported. The company says it processes more than 40 trillion tokens a day, while contract values, total GPU capacity and customer commitments tied to the new capital remain outside the public record.

#Fireworks AI #AI infrastructure #Series D funding

July 17, 2026Read More →

Nebius Moves AI Cloud Expansion To Partner-Owned Data Centres

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Nebius Moves AI Cloud Expansion To Partner-Owned Data Centres

AI Business reported that Nebius plans to run its AI cloud platform in partner-owned data centres, with revenue shares, licensing fees and committed-capacity deals under discussion.

#Nebius #AI cloud #data centres

July 17, 2026Read More →

1Password Gives Claude Session-Scoped Logins Without Model Access

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1Password Gives Claude Session-Scoped Logins Without Model Access

SiliconANGLE wrote that 1Password launched a Claude browser integration that lets Anthropic’s agent use approved logins without exposing passwords or one-time codes to the model. The release starts on Mac and leaves payment-card support, personal-detail autofill and independent security validation outside the launch record.

#1Password #Claude #Anthropic

July 16, 2026Read More →