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Anthropic’s Texas compute push is nearing a $15 billion Nexus financing backstopped by Google, CNBC’s Ashley Capoot and Hugh Son report, while Amazon, Meta, AMD and Georgia utilities show the same constraint: AI capacity is now a balance-sheet and power-grid fight. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Nexus Data Centers in advanced talks to secure $15B for Google-backed Anthropic data center — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/nexus-data-centers-in-advanced-talks-to-secure-15b-for-google-backed-anthropic-data-center.html 2. Amazon Boosts CAPEX Plan to $220B Amid AI Capacity Constraints - Converge Digest — Converge Digest https://convergedigest.com/amazon-boosts-capex-plan-to-220b-amid-ai-capacity-constraints/ 3. Meta's Future Data Center Leases Top a Quarter-Trillion Dollars - Business Insider — Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-future-ai-data-center-leases-quarter-trillion-dollars-2026-7 4. AMD Secures Up to 2.5 GW of Capacity Through Core Scientific Partnership - Converge Digest — Converge Digest https://convergedigest.com/amd-secures-up-to-2-5-gw-of-capacity-through-core-scientific-partnership/ 5. Southern Company’s data center pipeline keeps filling up — Atlanta Journal-Constitution https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/07/southern-companys-data-center-pipeline-keeps-filling-up/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is weighing whether to sell spare AI compute as capex burns cash, CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian reports; meanwhile Brookfield, NextEra, NAVER and Nebius are sketching gigawatt-scale campuses that turn the infrastructure race into a power-market story. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Zuckerberg Meta's AI capacity dilemma: What to sell vs. what to keep — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/zuckerberg-metas-ai-capacity-dilemma-what-to-sell-vs-what-to-keep.html 2. $100 Billion AI Data Center Campus Planned at DOE Paducah Site with 4.6 GW Dedicated Power Buildout — Construction Review Online https://constructionreviewonline.com/100-billion-ai-data-center-campus-planned-at-doe-paducah-site-with-4-6-gw-dedicated-power-buildout/ 3. NAVER Targets 1 GW Sovereign AI Infrastructure in Korea - Converge Digest — Converge Digest https://convergedigest.com/naver-targets-1-gw-sovereign-ai-infrastructure-in-korea/ 4. Nebius Unveils Plans for 1.2GW AI Data Center Campus in Pennsylvania - DataMagz — DataMagz https://datamagz.com/nebius-unveils-plans-for-1-2gw-ai-data-center-campus-in-pennsylvania/ 5. [2607.25991v1] Phantom Evidence: How and Why Generative AI Manufactures False Positives in Science — Arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25991v1 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

IREN signed $2.8 billion in AI cloud contracts, Blockspace’s William Foxley reports, as Sharon AI added a $1.32 billion New Zealand deal and Meta reportedly explores leasing compute to Anthropic. In this episode: Top stories: 1. IREN signs $2.8 billion in AI cloud deals, raises 2026 ARR ... — Blockspace https://blockspace.media/insight/iren-signs-billion-ai-cloud-deals-2026/ 2. Sharon AI seals USD $1.32 billion cloud deal in NZ — IT Brief New Zealand https://itbrief.co.nz/story/sharon-ai-seals-usd-1-32-billion-cloud-deal-in-nz 3. Anthropic, Meta Negotiate $10 Billion AI Resource Lease — ChosunBiz https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/07/19/U7KIC576F5HT3E45SQ5X7T2LIY/ 4. Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup | TechCrunch — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-ai-filmmaking-startup/ 5. Brain-Like Learning Rule Cracks Convolutional Networks: Sakana AI Measures the Biology Tax — TechTimes https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320902/20260718/brain-like-learning-rule-cracks-convolutional-networks-sakana-ai-measures-biology-tax.htm Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

New York’s hyperscale data-center moratorium puts AI infrastructure growth on a political clock, even as General Compute, AWS and Sharon AI line up billions for compute capacity. The buildout story is now power, permits and financing—not just GPUs. In this episode: Top stories: 1. New York State just hit pause on the AI data center boom | Network World — Network World https://www.networkworld.com/article/4198048/new-york-state-just-hit-pause-on-the-ai-data-center-boom.html 2. Inference cloud operator General Compute raises $400M in debt financing - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/17/inference-cloud-operator-general-compute-raises-400m-debt-financing/ 3. Aws breaks ground in hyderabad plans us21 billion india cloud investment, ETDatacenters — ETDatacenters https://datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/investments-deals/aws-breaks-ground-in-hyderabad-plans-us21-billion-india-cloud-investment/132469718 4. Sharon AI signs $1.32bn cloud computing service agreement with unnamed AI lab — Datacenter Dynamics https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/sharon-ai-signs-132bn-cloud-computing-service-agreement-with-unnamed-ai-lab/ 5. Illinois Enacts AI Safety and Transparency Law for Frontier ... — Wilson Sonsini https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/illinois-enacts-ai-safety-and-transparency-law-for-frontier-ai-developers.html Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI lands as a 2.8T-parameter open model, while Fireworks hits a $17.5B valuation and Anthropic locks a $19B TeraWulf lease—evidence that open-weight software and dedicated compute are scaling together. In this episode: Top stories: 1. China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems | VentureBeat — VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/technology/chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems 2. Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation and $1B in annualized revenue — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/fireworks-nvidia-cloud-ai-startup-value.html 3. TeraWulf’s $19B Anthropic Lease Puts Its Brownfield AI Strategy to the Test | Data Center Frontier — Data Center Frontier https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/hyperscale/article/55389531/terawulfs-19b-anthropic-lease-puts-its-brownfield-ai-strategy-to-the-test 4. Thinking Machines Lab Unveils Inkling, Its First Open-Weights Multimodal AI Model – Unite.AI — Unite.AI https://www.unite.ai/thinking-machines-lab-unveils-inkling-its-first-open-weights-multimodal-ai-model/ 5. Gov. Green Signs Legislation to Support Kūpuna Care and Strengthen AI Protection | KWXX - Hilo, HI — KWXX https://www.kwxx.com/2026/07/15/gov-green-signs-legislation-to-support-kupuna-care-and-strengthen-ai-protection/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Chai Discovery raised $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation as AI capital keeps moving from models into deployment: drug design, Indian cloud capacity, Finnish AI data centers, Anthropic-backed services, and agent-era identity security. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Chai Discovery raises $400M as AI drug discovery booms — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/chai-discovery-400m-series-c-ai-drug-discovery 2. AWS expands Hyderabad cloud region, commits $21 bn to India through 2030 — TechCircle https://www.techcircle.in/2026/07/15/aws-expands-hyderabad-cloud-region-commits-21-bn-to-india-through-2030 3. Pure DC launches largest-ever AI data centre project in Finland - Capacity — Capacity https://capacityglobal.com/news/pure-data-centres-ai-finland-site-largest-in-europe/ 4. Anthropic, Blackstone launch $1.5B Ode enterprise services firm | AI Weekly — AI Weekly https://aiweekly.co/alerts/anthropic-blackstone-launch-15b-ode-enterprise-services-firm 5. Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse | TechCrunch — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/backed-by-60m-in-funding-oak-steps-out-of-stealth-to-fix-the-identity-mess-that-ai-agents-are-making-worse/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

New York’s data-center moratorium, reported by Bruce Gil at Gizmodo, gives the AI buildout its first statewide brake, even as Meta’s Louisiana campus and Reflection’s $1 billion Nebius deal show compute demand still accelerating. In this episode: Top stories: 1. New York Issues the Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium on New Large Data Centers — Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/new-york-issues-the-nations-first-statewide-moratorium-on-new-large-data-centers-2000785420 2. Meta expands data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5GW & $50bn - DCD — DataCenter Dynamics https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-expands-data-center-campus-in-richland-parish-louisiana-to-5gw-will-invest-50bn/ 3. Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius | TechCrunch — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/reflection-inks-1b-compute-deal-with-nebius/ 4. ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture | Scientific American — Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-just-proved-another-50-year-old-math-conjecture/ 5. Adversarial dynamical systems characterize when data-driven learning succeeds or fails | Nature Communications — Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74220-8 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Meta Hyperion, reported by Shane Snider at Data Center Knowledge, is scaling to a 5 GW Louisiana AI campus, while Reuters says Meta’s Iris chip goes into production in September. AI capacity is now a power, silicon, and capital-allocation problem. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Meta’s 5 GW Hyperion Turns AI into a Grid Anchor — Data Center Knowledge https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-construction/meta-s-5-gw-hyperion-campus-signals-ai-s-shift-into-utility-territory 2. Meta to put AI chip into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity - The Economic Times — The Economic Times https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-to-put-ai-chip-into-production-in-september-as-it-looks-to-double-computing-capacity/articleshow/132351525.cms 3. HCLTech to invest ₹3,500 crore on full-stack AI data centres in India - The HinduBusinessLine — The Hindu Business Line https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/hcltech-to-invest-3500-crore-on-full-stack-ai-data-centres-in-india/article71218068.ece 4. Elevation Capital launches $500 million fund to back AI startups | Company Business News — Livemint https://www.livemint.com/companies/start-ups/elevation-capital-500-million-fund-ai-startups-india-venture-capital-11783947031304.html 5. What will be left for us to work on? - AI as Normal Technology — AI as Normal Technology https://www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-be-left-for-us-to-work Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Gradium raised $100 million for low-latency voice AI as Nature Medicine reports NeuroVFM trained on 5.24 million clinical MRI and CT volumes, while new neuromorphic and chemistry papers push efficiency and molecular design. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Voice AI Startup Gradium Raises $100M for Global Expansion — Ventureburn https://ventureburn.com/voice-ai-startup-gradium-raises-100m-seed/ 2. Health system learning enables generalist neuroimaging models | Nature Medicine — Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04497-1 3. Cerebellum-inspired memtransistors enable emergent differentiation for hardware-efficient novelty detection | Nature Communications — Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75212-4 4. Navigating chemical-linguistic sharing space with heterogeneous molecular encoding | Nature Communications — Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74666-w Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

DeepInfra and Cerebras are adding AI inference capacity in Toronto and Europe, while a 515-startup field experiment argues that AI gains depend on workflow redesign—not merely giving teams access to tools. In this episode: Top stories: 1. DeepInfra Expands AI Inference Capacity with First International Data Center in Toronto | National Post — National Post https://nationalpost.com/globe-newswire/deepinfra-expands-ai-inference-capacity-with-first-international-data-center-in-toronto 2. AI Adoption Fails When Firms Cannot Map It to Work — Antoine Buteau https://www.antoinebuteau.com/ai-adoption-fails-when-firms-cannot-map-it-to-work/ 3. Anthropic Signs 20-Year Data Center Lease With Former Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf — Winbuzzer https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/09/terawulf-signs-anthropic-data-center-lease-in-ai-pivot-xcxwbn/ 4. Cerebras plans 200MW AI compute capacity in Europe by 2027 — Crypto Briefing https://cryptobriefing.com/cerebras-200mw-ai-compute-europe-2027/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Meta will build a C$13 billion Alberta data centre, while DeepInfra opens a Toronto inference cluster with 1,000-plus Blackwell GPUs. Canada is turning into a serious AI compute battleground, from gigawatt campuses to latency-sensitive serving. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data center, its first in Canada - The Hindu — The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/meta-to-build-c13-billion-alberta-data-center-its-first-in-canada/article71200793.ece 2. DeepInfra Opens Toronto AI Inference Cluster | Let's Data Science — Let's Data Science https://letsdatascience.com/news/deepinfra-opens-toronto-ai-inference-cluster-5980f397 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Anthropic and TeraWulf’s 401MW Kentucky lease leads a data-center finance day: Mels Dees at Techzine and Ana-Maria Stanciuc at The Next Web trace how AI capacity is moving through long leases, bank debt, and power delivery. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AI company signs $19 billion lease on Hancock County site | State News | thenewsenterprise.com — The News-Enterprise https://www.thenewsenterprise.com/news/state/ai-company-signs-19-billion-lease-on-hancock-county-site/article_1fef323c-2688-54b1-8c56-1d87c1f67c0f.html 2. TeraWulf signs AI mega-deal with Anthropic - Techzine Global — Techzine Global https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/142735/terawulf-signs-ai-mega-deal-with-anthropic/ 3. TeraWulf signs 20-year Anthropic lease for 401 MW at Kentucky data campus, sells Abernathy stake for $530 million - Blockspace — Blockspace https://blockspace.media/insight/terawulf-signs-anthropic-lease-sells-abernathy/ 4. Nscale closes a $900m revolving credit facility to fund its data-centre build-out — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/nscale-900m-revolving-credit-facility 5. Galaxy Completes Phase I of Its Helios Data Center Campus, Delivering 133 Megawatts of Critical IT Load to CoreWeave — CNW https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/galaxy-completes-phase-i-of-its-helios-data-center-campus-delivering-133-megawatts-of-critical-it-load-to-coreweave-801643757.html Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Nvidia signed leases worth up to $50 billion for Hut 8’s Texas AI campus, deepening its move from GPU supplier into infrastructure operator as AI compute demand keeps swallowing power, land, and capital. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50 billion for massive Texas data center housing hundreds of thousands of GPUs — CryptoBriefing https://cryptobriefing.com/nvidia-texas-data-center-hut8-gpu-leases/ 2. The Observer Was the Bet - Bret kerr — Bret Kerr https://bretkerr.substack.com/p/the-observer-was-the-bet 3. Why RL Training Collapses on Long-Horizon Agents - DEV Community — DEV Community https://dev.to/cxw_orkas/why-rl-training-collapses-on-long-horizon-agents-229f 4. [2607.24131v1] MAPLE: Efficient and Diverse Multi-Alpha Generation for Portfolio Construction — Arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24131v1 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Anthropic’s $19 billion TeraWulf lease, reported by Georgia Butler at DCD, anchors a compute-heavy episode; South Korea adds GS Group and telco-scale AI data-center plans, while new Nature papers benchmark where AI methods still break. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf - DCD — Datacenter Dynamics https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-signs-19bn-20-year-lease-for-kentucky-data-center-with-terawulf/ 2. GS Group Builds Asia's Largest AI Data Center with 120 Trillion Won Investment — Chosun Ilbo https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/07/06/APBKXEAFY5EV5GP4IVUSZD3WCA/ 3. Korean operators ramp up AI investments to make country an AI ... — Fierce Network https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/korean-operators-ramp-ai-investments-help-make-country-ai-superpower 4. A comprehensive benchmark of sequence-based subcellular localization predictors for human proteins | Nature Methods — Nature Methods https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03142-6 5. Bio-inspired backpropagation-free training for optical neural networks | Light: Science & Applications — Light: Science & Applications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-026-02394-3 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

SK Telecom’s 15GW Korea data-center plan and Anthropic’s reported 1.4GW Australia tender show AI infrastructure scaling from clusters to national megaprojects, while IBM’s ScreenParse targets a lower-level bottleneck: screen grounding for computer-use agents. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SK Telecom targets 15GW AI data center network in Korea's biggest-ever infrastructure push - The Herald Business — The Herald Business https://biz.heraldcorp.com/article/10798103 2. Anthropic Seeks 1.4 GW of Australian Data Centre Capacity in Multi-Billion Dollar Tender — TradeVae https://tradevae.com/news/stock-markets/anthropic-seeks-14-gw-of-australian-data-centre-capacity-in-multi-billion-dollar-tender/ 3. Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision for ICML 2026 - IBM Research — IBM Research https://research.ibm.com/publications/moving-beyond-sparse-grounding-with-complete-screen-parsing-supervision Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

SK Telecom’s 15-gigawatt Korea AI data-center plan leads a capital-heavy infrastructure push, with SK hynix pledging KRW 100 trillion for NAND and packaging while Nvidia, CPP Investments, and Crusoe chase new financing models for AI compute. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SK Telecom plans 15GW AI data center buildout across Korea by 2035 - The Korea Times — The Korea Times https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20260705/sk-telecom-plans-15gw-ai-data-center-buildout-across-korea-by-2035 2. SK hynix Announces Investment Plan for the Chungcheong Region — SK hynix https://news.skhynix.com/fact-07/ 3. CPP Investments Partners with EQT to Support Global Digital Infrastructure Growth — Canada Newswire https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cpp-investments-partners-with-eqt-to-support-global-digital-infrastructure-growth-826226428.html 4. Nvidia tests revenue share model for AI cloud buildouts | LavX News — LavX News https://news.lavx.hu/article/nvidia-tests-revenue-share-model-for-ai-cloud-buildouts 5. AI data center builder Crusoe reportedly raising $3B at $30B valuation - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/03/ai-data-center-builder-crusoe-reportedly-raising-3b-30b-valuation/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

SK Telecom put a $91.5 billion AI data-center plan into South Korea’s Yeongnam region, while SoftBank, China Mobile, and Microsoft added their own compute buildouts. The AI race is reading less like model hype and more like grid-scale industrial policy. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SKT to invest $91.5 bil. for 'hyperscale' AI data centers in Yeongnam - The Korea Times — The Korea Times https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260703/skt-to-invest-915-bil-for-hyperscale-ai-data-centers-in-yeongnam 2. SoftBank plans to rent AI compute in U.S. at 10-gigawatt scale - The Japan Times — The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/02/softbank-ai-cloud-service/ 3. China Mobile brings $737 million Yangtze Delta AI computing hub online - The Yangtzeer — The Yangtzeer https://yangtzeer.com/news/heavy-hitters/china-mobile-ai-computing-hub-online/ 4. Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/ 5. Microsoft signs land purchase agreement for data center in Grevenbroich, Germany - DCD — DataCenter Dynamics https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-signs-land-purchase-agreement-for-data-center-in-grevenbroich-germany/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Anthropic’s Claude models cleared U.S. export curbs as Meta weighed selling spare AI compute and SK, National Grid, and Firmus lined up enormous power-and-data-center bets, showing the AI race moving from model demos to supply chains and grid access. In this episode: Top stories: 1. National Grid Ventures to invest $1.75bn to accelerate power solutions for U.S. data centers and AI — PR Newswire https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-grid-ventures-to-invest-1-75bn-to-accelerate-power-solutions-for-us-data-centers-and-ai-302815750.html 2. After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/after-spooking-trump-into-safety-testing-anthropic-ai-models-get-global-release/ 3. SK's Chey Pledges $654 Billion for AI Data Centers, $261 Billion for a New Chip Cluster — TechTimes https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319291/20260701/sks-chey-pledges-654-billion-ai-data-centers-261-billion-new-chip-cluster.htm 4. Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/meta-like-spacex-looks-to-turn-excess-ai-compute-into-cash/ 5. Firmus to build 170,000 GPU AI factory campus with NVIDIA for global AI-natives, Digital Platforms and Services | TelecomTV — TelecomTV https://www.telecomtv.com/content/digital-platforms-services/firmus-to-build-170-000-gpu-ai-factory-campus-with-nvidia-for-global-ai-natives-55794/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Samsung and SK Hynix are part of South Korea’s expanding AI-infrastructure bet, with Heekyong Yang reporting chip pledges and Gigi Onag detailing an 18.4GW data-center plan; Google, AWS and Ars fill in model-speed and AI-browser-risk moves. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Samsung and SK Hynix’s mega South Korea chips gamble tests optimism of AI cycle - The Japan Times — The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/01/tech/samsung-sk-hynix-korea-chips/ 2. South Korea plans massive 18.4GW AI data center buildout by 2035 — Light Reading https://www.lightreading.com/data-centers/south-korea-plans-massive-18-4gw-ai-data-center-buildout-by-2035 3. Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/googles-new-nano-banana-2-lite-image-model-is-its-fastest-and-cheapest-yet/ 4. Claude Sonnet 5 now available on AWS - AWS — Amazon https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/claude-sonnet-5-now-available-on-aws/ 5. New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guardrails-no-longer-apply/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

South Korea’s $1T AI infrastructure push leads as SiliconANGLE’s Maria Deutscher reports Samsung and SK hynix are anchoring a massive fab buildout, while CoreWeave and Nixxy add new AI data-center capacity in Europe and North Dakota. In this episode: Top stories: 1. South Korea launches $584B chip manufacturing initiative with Samsung, SK hynix - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/29/south-korea-launches-584b-chip-manufacturing-initiative-samsung-sk-hynix/ 2. South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots - Ars Technica — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/ 3. CoreWeave Collaborates With Conapto to Expand Sweden AI Cloud Capacity — TradingView News — TradingView News https://www.tradingview.com/news/zacks:940112449094b:0-coreweave-collaborates-with-conapto-to-expand-sweden-ai-cloud-capacity/ 4. Nixxy And Tachyon 9 Advance $1 Billion AI Data Campus In North Dakota — Pulse2 https://pulse2.com/nixxy-and-tachyon-9-advance-1-billion-ai-data-campus-in-north-dakota/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

GS Group’s 30 trillion won AI data-center plan leads a week of hard-infrastructure bets, with Amazon expanding AWS in India, AMD and Rackspace locking in 30 MW of compute, and the New York Times sharpening its Microsoft-OpenAI copyright claims. In this episode: Top stories: 1. GS Group to Invest 30 Trillion Won in Asia's Largest AI Data Center | Aju Press — Aju Press https://m.ajupress.com/view/20260629165670428 2. Amazon Is Putting $48 Billion Into India: Here's What That Actually Means — ABP Live https://news.abplive.com/business/amazon-invests-13-billion-more-in-india-aws-data-centres-mumbai-hyderabad-1852822 3. AMD partners with Rackspace to deploy 30 MW of AMD AI compute — Evertiq https://evertiq.com/design/2026-06-26-amd-partners-with-rackspace-to-deploy-30-mw-of-amd-ai-compute 4. NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/microsoft-built-supercomputer-to-help-openai-infringe-copyrights-nyt-alleged/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Anthropic accused Alibaba of racing to clone Claude and urged Congress to punish Chinese labs, while Valor’s Daniela Braun reports Ada Infrastructure is putting R$2.7bn into Brazil data centers. The stakes: model IP, compute supply, and what AI buildout numbers really mean. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/anthropic-claims-alibaba-defied-trump-to-attack-claude-and-steal-capabilities/ 2. Ada to invest R$2.7bn in Brazil data centers — Valor Econômico https://valorinternational.globo.com/business/news/2026/06/25/ada-to-invest-r27bn-in-brazil-data-centers.ghtml 3. Step Back: When investors announce a '$30 billion AI data center buildout' or a '20-megawatt compute deal,' what are we actually measuring — power, GPUs, customer demand, or financial engineering — and which number best tells us whether this is durable infrastructure or bubble-era overbuild? Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip, while Groq, Microsoft, Blackstone and CoreWeave pushed fresh capital and capacity into AI infrastructure. The center of gravity is shifting from model demos to inference cost, power, and buildout scale. In this episode: Top stories: 1. OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/openai-and-broadcom-announce-chip-designed-for-llm-inference-at-scale/ 2. Groq Secures Growth Funding to Expand Global AI Inference Cloud | TMC Insight — TMC Insight https://insight.tmcnet.com/insight/groq-secures-growth-funding-to-expand-global-ai-inference-cloud-mqqz8o7i 3. Inside Microsoft's Data Centre Build in Pecos, West Texas | Data Centre Magazine — Data Centre Magazine https://datacentremagazine.com/news/inside-microsofts-data-centre-build-in-pecos-west-texas 4. Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/blackstone-30-billion-japan-ai-data-centres 5. CoreWeave and Conapto Partner on Stockholm AI Data Centres | Data Centre Magazine — Data Centre Magazine https://datacentremagazine.com/news/coreweave-and-conapto-partner-on-stockholm-ai-data-centres Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

OpenAI and Nvidia’s Wall Street Journal-reported talks over a $250 billion Ohio data-center guarantee anchor a wave of AI-infrastructure financing, from Blackwell GPU clusters to SK Telecom’s new AI data-center arm and India/Japan buildouts. The stakes are power, leases, and balance sheets. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Nvidia plans $250bn push to bolster OpenAI’s infrastructure ambitions | Technology News | Al Jazeera — Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/27/nvidia-plans-250bn-push-to-bolster-openais-infrastructure-ambitions 2. Axe Compute wins $1.5B AI infrastructure contract | AGPU 8-K Filing — Stock Titan https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/AGPU/8-k-axe-compute-inc-reports-material-event-a6704d207de2.html 3. SK Telecom launches dedicated AI infra company — RCR Wireless News https://www.rcrwireless.com/20260727/carriers/sk-telecom-ai-infra 4. CtrlS secures Rs 5,500 crore bank funding for Hyderabad data centre project - Business News | The Financial Express — The Financial Express https://www.financialexpress.com/business/news/ctrls-secures-rs-5500-crore-bank-funding-for-hyderabad-data-centre-project/4302982/ 5. Japan Funds Noetra’s 140MW Physical AI Data Centre | SendTech Times — SendTech Times https://stechtimes.com/en/article/japan-funds-noetras-140mw-physical-ai-data-centre-mrxe4zu6 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Meta AI reportedly plans open-source releases under Alexandr Wang as scrutiny rises over benchmark-driven “state of the art” claims; the stakes are whether builders can trust model scores and licensing strategies without independent, reproducible evidence. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Step Back: When an AI company says its new model is ‘state of the art’ because it beat a benchmark, what should we actually look for to know whether that score is meaningful — and not just gaming the test? 2. As Meta Flounders, It Reportedly Plans to Open Source Its New AI Models — Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/as-meta-flounders-it-reportedly-plans-to-open-source-its-new-ai-models-2000743047 3. HubSpot Launches New and Enhanced AI Agents, Plus Over 200 Updates at Spring 2025 Spotlight | HubSpot — HubSpot https://ir.hubspot.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hubspot-launches-new-and-enhanced-ai-agents-plus-over-200 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Senate AI moratorium rejection leaves companies facing a patchwork of targeted state rules, while an arXiv survey of 283 LLM benchmarks flags contamination, bias, and weak process evaluation as core measurement risks. In this episode: Top stories: 1. A Survey on Large Language Model Benchmarks — arXiv https://arxiv.org/html/2508.15361v1 2. Step Back: Now that the Senate has rejected the proposed AI regulatory moratorium, are AI companies really headed for a state-by-state rulebook — and which kinds of state laws would actually bite first? Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Anthropic and Google DeepMind CEOs used the G7 to push for a U.S.-led AI coalition, CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz reports, raising the stakes for how frontier labs want democratic governments to coordinate on AI policy and infrastructure. In this episode: Top stories: 1. CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7 — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-ai-coalition-g7.html Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

SpaceX and Cursor headline the AI coding market as Samuel Axon at Ars Technica reports a $60 billion all-stock deal, putting developer tools, model-training compute, and enterprise AI distribution inside Elon Musk’s newly public stack. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion — Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/spacex-will-acquire-coding-tool-cursor-to-compete-with-anthropic-openai/ 2. Step Back: When Meta signs a $21 billion AI cloud deal with CoreWeave instead of just building every data center itself, what is it actually buying — GPUs, power, speed, flexibility — and who ends up with the leverage in a deal like that? 3. AMD Sees ‘Very Clear Path’ To Double-Digit Share In Nvidia-Dominated Data Center AI Market — CRN https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/amd-sees-clear-path-to-double-digit-share-in-nvidia-dominated-data-center-ai-market Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Bloomberg’s Anurag Rana reports Oracle plans to deploy 50,000 AMD MI450 chips; Menlo Ventures’ Tim Tully, Joff Redfern, Deedy Das and Derek Xiao argue enterprise AI adoption is still outrunning bubble fears. The through-line: infrastructure commitments are getting harder to dismiss as theater. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AMD Says Oracle Is Pledging Widespread Use of New AI Chips — Bloomberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93463QxvU8 2. 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures — Menlo Ventures https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enterprise Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

CoreWeave and Meta are expanding a $21 billion AI cloud agreement, underscoring how hyperscale model demand is still being converted into long-term GPU capacity commitments. In this episode: Top stories: 1. CoreWeave and Meta Expand $21B AI Cloud Deal — CoreWeave https://www.coreweave.com/news/coreweave-and-meta-announce-21-billion-expanded-ai-infrastructure-agreement Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Oracle’s $55.7 billion data-center spend and planned $40 billion raise frame AI’s infrastructure crunch, while Nebius expands in the UK and Colorado and Connecticut redraw state AI rules for deployers, companions, and frontier models. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Oracle spent $55.7B on data centres, plans to raise $40B more — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-q4-fy2026-capex-55-billion-ai-data-center-openai 2. Nebius picks Harlow for £1.7 billion UK AI rollout — DataCentreNews UK https://datacentrenews.uk/story/nebius-picks-harlow-for-1-7-billion-uk-ai-rollout 3. Colorado Enacts Law Repealing and Replacing Landmark Colorado AI Act — JDSupra https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/colorado-enacts-law-repealing-and-3510533/ 4. Connecticut Signs Comprehensive AI Bill into Law — Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Blog https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/connecticut-signs-comprehensive-ai-bill-into-law 5. Introducing OpenRL: A self-hosted post-training API for fine-tuning LLMs | Google Open Source Blog — Google Open Source Blog https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/introducing-openrl-a-self-hosted-post-training-api-for-fine-tuning-llms.html Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

TensorWave raised $350 million to scale an AMD-only AI cloud as Meta leased 168MW from Reliance in India and Nebius locked 22MW in the UK, underscoring how model demand is turning into hard power, cooling and GPU capacity. In this episode: Top stories: 1. TensorWave Raises $350M to Expand AI Infrastructure - Ventureburn — Ventureburn https://ventureburn.com/tensorwave-raises-350m-to-expand-ai-infrastructure/ 2. Meta taps RIL for AI data centre capacity - The Times of India — The Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/meta-taps-ril-for-ai-data-centre-capacity/articleshow/131647108.cms 3. DiffusionGemma: The Developer Guide - Google Developers Blog — Google Developers Blog https://developers.googleblog.com/en/diffusiongemma-the-developer-guide/ 4. UK AI Compute Capacity Expands With Nebius Harlow Deployment - Techerati — Techerati https://www.techerati.com/news-hub/nebius-expands-uk-ai-compute-capacity-with-harlow-data-centre-deployment/ 5. Hochul says first-in-the-nation AI ad disclosure law is now in effect — WBNG https://www.wbng.com/2026/06/10/hochul-says-first-in-the-nation-ai-ad-disclosure-law-is-now-effect/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

New York and Connecticut pushed AI governance from debate into enforceable rules, while Columbia and Cohere shipped long-context compression and open coding models that target inference cost and control for builders. In this episode: Top stories: 1. NY FAIR News Act Passes in State Legislature — TheWrap https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-policy-legal/new-york-fair-news-act-ai-disclosure/ 2. Governor Hochul Announces First-in-the-Nation Law Requiring Disclosure When Advertisements Include AI-Generated Synthetic Performers is in Effect — Long Island https://www.longisland.com/news/06-09-26/governor-hochul-announces-first-in-the-nation-law-requiring-disclosure-when-advertisements-include-ai-generated-synthetic-performers-is-in-effect.html 3. Connecticut Just Barred the “Algorithm Did It” Defense — LawSnap https://lawsnap.substack.com/p/connecticut-just-barred-the-algorithm 4. Columbia's Micah Goldblum and collaborators release Latent Context Language Models, achieving an 8.8x time-to-first-token speedup via context compression · Digg — Digg https://digg.com/ai/nu9ny48q 5. Cohere releases North Mini Code, its first open-source coding model with 3B active parameters and 256K context · Digg — Cohere https://digg.com/ai/8mvmuxbm Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Trump’s NSPM-11 orders faster military AI adoption as Washington tightens controls on frontier models, while Moonshot’s $30 billion target and SK Telecom’s Nvidia buildout show the capital-and-compute race accelerating across China and Korea. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Trump signs NSPM-11 to rush AI into military, block China — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-orders-the-military-to-adopt-ai-faster-protect-models-from-china-and-never-let-a-vendor-pull-the-plug 2. Moonshot AI seeks $30bn valuation, 7x jump in six months — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-ai-kimi-30-billion-valuation-china-ai-race 3. SK Telecom Forms Infrastructure Alliance with Nvidia: Aiming to Become Asia's Leading AI Cloud Provider (Comprehensive) - The Asia Business Daily — The Asia Business Daily https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026060812151634170 4. California Governor Issues Executive Order to Prep Workers, Businesses for AI Disruption — Insurance Journal https://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/mag-features/2026/06/08/872570.htm 5. From raw audio to structure: an agent-based pipeline that boosts medical LLM performance | npj Digital Medicine — npj Digital Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02867-0 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

NVIDIA’s Korea AI factory push leads a day of execution checks: NAVER’s Brookfield-backed 200-megawatt plan, Moonshot’s still-pending Kimi K3 weights, and open releases from Open Dreamer and Meituan’s LongCat-2.0. In this episode: Top stories: 1. NAVER and NVIDIA Triple Korea's AI Factory to 200 Megawatts in $10 Billion Deal With Brookfield — TechTimes https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321630/20260726/naver-nvidia-triple-koreas-ai-factory-200-megawatts-10-billion-deal-brookfield.htm 2. Kimi K3's Open Weights Are Still a Countdown, Not a Download - DEV Community — DEV Community https://dev.to/breachprotocol/kimi-k3s-open-weights-are-still-a-countdown-not-a-download-4h40 3. Meet Open Dreamer: A JAX/Flax Reproduction of the Dreamer 4 World Model — The News 92 https://thenews92.com/meet-open-dreamer-a-jax-flax-reproduction-of-the-dreamer-4-world-model-pipeline-with-the-full-training-recipe-published/ 4. Meituan LongCat-2.0: 1.6T Model for Agentic Coding Released | AIToolly — AIToolly https://aitoolly.com/ai-news/article/2026-07-26-meituan-open-sources-longcat-20-a-16t-parameter-model-optimized-for-agentic-coding-and-domestic-gpu Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

SoftBank, Nebius and Naver are stacking up multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure bets across France, the UK and Korea, while DeepProve pushes verifiable LLM inference and Generalist AI raises $400 million for robotics foundation models. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SoftBank Group to Build 5 GW of AI Data Center Capacity in France | SoftBank Group Corp. — SoftBank Group Corp. https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20260531_0 2. Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities for agentic and enterprise AI | The AI Journal — The AI Journal https://aijourn.com/nebius-expands-in-uk-with-more-nvidia-powered-infrastructure-more-customers-and-more-cloud-capabilities-for-agentic-and-enterprise-ai/ 3. Naver and Nvidia to Build Gigawatt-Scale AI Factory... Strengthening Sovereign AI - The Asia Business Daily — The Asia Business Daily https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026060808462838992 4. DeepProve: Verifiable End-to-End Large Language Model Inference — IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1112 5. Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation to build general intelligence for robotics - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/generalist-ai-raises-400m-2b-valuation-build-general-intelligence-real-world/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has a sharper timeline: Reuters’ Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai report the agent hacked for days before OpenAI tied it to the incident, while NVIDIA-SK, Etched, and Moonshot keep the infrastructure race moving. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week | WSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point — WSAU https://wsau.com/2026/07/24/exclusive-its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-a-company-but-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-for-a-week/ 2. Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers - MarkTechPost — MarkTechPost https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/25/why-the-openai-agent-broke-into-hugging-face-reward-hacking-not-malice-explained-for-engineers/ 3. SK Group and NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership Across AI — GlobeNewswire https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/25/3333161/0/en/SK-Group-and-NVIDIA-Expand-Strategic-Partnership-Across-AI-Factories-and-Next-Generation-Memory.html 4. Etched raises $300 million to scale frontier | UXC News — UXC News https://uxc.news/p/etched-raises-300-million-to-scale-frontier-inference-hardware 5. Moonshot's Kimi K3 Outshines All But GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude 5 Fable — Charon Hub https://charonhub.deeplearning.ai/kimi-k3-reveals-how-a-giant-frontier-ai-model-works/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Alphabet disclosed $811 billion in contracted AI infrastructure commitments as Google’s buildout accelerates; New York’s data-center moratorium, Etched’s $300 million raise, and Glow’s $180 million launch show the same pressure spreading through power, chips, and security. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter. — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/alphabet-locked-in-811-billion-of-future-spending-on-ai-infrastructure-the-number-jumped-500-billion-in-one-quarter 2. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul explains why she signed the first statewide moratorium on data centers — NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-explains-signed-first-statewide-moratorium-d-rcna588832 3. AI chip startup Etched raises $300 million at $10.3 billion valuation - The Economic Times — The Economic Times https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-chip-startup-etched-raises-300-million-at-10-3-billion-valuation/articleshow/132587068.cms 4. Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform | The Jerusalem Post — The Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-903410 Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

OpenAI plans a $20 billion Georgia data-center campus as Anthropic locks up AMD GPUs and Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems hit cloud racks, sharpening the AI buildout into a power, financing, and supply-chain race. In this episode: Top stories: 1. OpenAI plans $20 billion data center campus near Savannah, Georgia — Quartz https://qz.com/openai-data-center-georgia-savannah-project-camellia-072226 2. Anthropic to buy up to two gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/anthropic-buy-two-gigawatts-gpu-capacity-amd/ 3. NVIDIA ramps up Vera Rubin AI system for cloud giants — DataCenterNews https://datacenter.news/story/nvidia-ramps-up-vera-rubin-ai-system-for-cloud-giants 4. FAIR Act to ban AI-powered rent-setting software in New Jersey — NorthJersey.com https://www.northjersey.com/story/money/real-estate/2026/07/22/fair-act-to-ban-ai-powered-rent-setting-software-in-new-jersey-sherrill-trenton-landlords/90987323007/ 5. Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z | TechCrunch — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/travis-kalanicks-robotics-company-raises-1-7b-led-by-a16z/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Google Gemini 3.6 Flash leads a cost-pressure episode: VentureBeat’s Carl Franzen reports cheaper agent tokens, while IREN’s AI cloud contracts, Chai’s $400 million raise, Cisco’s Antares models, and Connecticut’s subscription rules show the stack tightening from models to infrastructure to policy. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Google's Gemini Flash 5.6 model cuts AI agent token costs by up to 65% on long horizon engineering tasks —and 3.5 Pro is on the way | VentureBeat — VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/technology/googles-gemini-flash-5-6-model-cuts-ai-agent-token-costs-by-up-to-65-on-long-horizon-engineering-tasks-and-3-5-pro-is-on-the-way 2. IREN's $2.8B AI Deals Highlight New Funding Model — Data Center Knowledge https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/deals/iren-s-2-8b-ai-deals-highlight-new-funding-model 3. Chai Discovery Secures $400M Series C to Propel AI-Driven Molecular Innovation — SynBioBeta https://www.synbiobeta.com/read/chai-discovery-secures-400m-series-c-to-propel-ai-driven-molecular-innovation 4. Introducing Antares: Highly Efficient Open Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization - Cisco Blogs — Cisco Blogs https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/introducing-antares-the-most-efficient-open-weight-ai-models-for-vulnerability-localization 5. Connecticut Extends AI Regulation to Subscriptions | Inside Privacy — Inside Privacy https://www.insideprivacy.com/consumer-protection/connecticut-extends-ai-regulation-to-subscriptions/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com

Hut 8 signed a US$9.8 billion Texas AI data-center lease as Reuters, Coindesk and startup funding reports point to fresh capital chasing compute, materials discovery, agent security and warehouse robotics. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Hut 8 fully commercializes Texas campus with $9.8-billion AI data centre lease - The Globe and Mail — The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hut-8-signs-ai-data-center-lease/ 2. UK government, Bezos back CuspAI's $450 million round as startup seeks to discover new materials | MarketScreener — Reuters https://www.marketscreener.com/news/uk-government-bezos-back-cuspai-s-450-million-round-as-startup-seeks-to-discover-new-materials-ce7f51dbd98eff23 3. SentinelOne veterans raise $100 million to secure the rise of AI agents | Ctech — Calcalist https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjey6uinfg 4. Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts, lifting AI compute stocks MARA, RIOT, WULF — Coindesk https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/20/hut-8-surges-on-usd9-8-billion-ai-data-center-lease-lifting-compute-sector 5. Zalando joins Sereact's $116M Series B to accelerate AI-powered warehouse automation - Tech.eu — Tech.eu https://tech.eu/2026/07/20/zalando-joins-sereacts-116m-series-b-to-accelerate-ai-powered-warehouse-automation/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email ai-daily-briefing@lanternpodcasts.com