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$7B AI Data Deal Secured

Applied Digital signed a $7 billion, 15-year lease with CoreWeave to provide 250MW of AI data center capacity in North Dakota. Two centers will go live by mid-2026, with a third planned. CoreWeave can scale to 400MW. This shows how AI demand is reshaping infrastructure - and why access to power, not compute, may soon be the real bottleneck.

→ More details about CoreWeave’s new deal

Musk’s xAI Seeks $5B in Debt

Elon Musk’s xAI is raising $5 billion through Morgan Stanley to fund its Memphis data center, now running 200,000 GPUs. The money supports broader AI compute plans, including scaling to 1 million GPUs nearby. The move signals growing capital needs in AI infrastructure - watch how access to financing will shape who wins in enterprise AI buildouts.

→ More details about xAI’s new fundraising

Microsoft Launches Free AI Video Tool

Microsoft has added a new AI video generator - Bing Video Creator - into its Bing app using OpenAI’s Sora model. Users can create short, vertical videos from text prompts at no cost, with a cap of 10 clips before redeeming Microsoft Rewards points. The tool is mobile-only for now. This move makes generative video more accessible and nudges marketers to rethink content workflows.

→ More details about Microsoft’s new video tool 

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• From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms (link)

• Report: Artificial Intelligence agents can organize themselves and create their own social norms (link)

• Driving AI adoption in wealth and asset management - with Deep Srivastav of Franklin Templeton (link)

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• Chalk raised a $50M series A for its AI inference data platform.

• Rillet raised $25M in series A for its AI-based ERP platform.

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• Staff machine learning engineer at Spotify (Remote)

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