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AMD’s Helios AI Rack Takes Direct Aim at Nvidia
AMD’s Helios rack-scale design combines 72 MI455X accelerators with EPYC processors and Pensando networking as it challenges Nvidia’s AI infrastructure lead.
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Topic: Infrastructure
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Analysis
Wall Street Is Building a $500 Billion Financing Machine for AI
Nvidia is recruiting six financial giants to turn computing capacity into an investable infrastructure asset.
NextTech
Analysis
Sony and TSMC Are Betting $4.7 Billion on the Future of Seeing
A new Sony-controlled venture will combine sensor design and advanced manufacturing to produce smartphone image sensors from 2029.
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Amazon’s Texas AI Campus Could Carry a 33 Million-Ton Carbon Permit
Amazon has confirmed plans for a Pecos County data-center campus tied to GW Ranch, whose state permit allows up to 33.2 million tons of greenhouse-gas emissions a year.
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Developing
Iran’s Hormuz Demands Raise New Shipping Cost Risks
Tehran’s six conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz tie commercial passage to wider military, sanctions and financial negotiations.
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Analysis
DoorDash Wants to Own the Delivery Stack, Not Just the Marketplace
DoorDash’s order volume is still growing quickly, but the more consequential shift is underneath the marketplace: a delivery network increasingly designed to choose among human couriers, robots and drones order by order.
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Analysis
The Ocean Is Not a Free Cooling System for AI
China’s underwater data centers show real gains in energy, land and freshwater use. But the case for scaling them depends on what happens to the heat, marine habitat, maintenance economics and a seafloor we still barely understand.
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Samsung and SK Hynix Evaluate Chinese Chip Tools as Export Risks Grow
Reuters reported that the memory-chip makers have tested AMEC equipment as a possible contingency for their factories in China; Samsung disputed the report.
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AI Infrastructure Boom Pushes Spending Into Chips, Power and Data Centers
Record semiconductor profits and a proposed $100 billion Kentucky data-center complex show how AI investment is expanding beyond models and software.
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Analysis
Amazon’s $220 Billion Buildout Makes AI Infrastructure the Strategy
Amazon raised its 2026 capital-spending plan by $20 billion as AWS growth accelerated, illustrating how the AI race is being fought through power, chips and long-lived physical assets.