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Purpose-built GPU cloud platforms serving AI labs, AI-native startups and enterprises.
IREN shares rose 5% premarket on a reported Anthropic cloud contract that neither company has confirmed. CoinShares puts miners' AI and HPC backlog above $100 billion with only about 550 MW billing, so a signature is the first of several steps to revenue.
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Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, against a valuation of nearly $4 billion in May. Decart's software eases switching between AI chips, and Amazon is pushing its Trainium3 chip against Nvidia.
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CoreWeave has announced Forge, a platform linking model training, inference and evaluation so production results improve models and agents. Buyers comparing AI clouds now have a tooling claim to test next to chip capacity.
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Verda's $189 million Series B puts its valuation above $1 billion on a $165 million annualised run rate, or about 0.28% of the AI cloud infrastructure market it says it undercuts by up to 90%.
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Crusoe confirmed on September 28 that Google is the end user of its Goodnight campus near Amarillo, a site wired to two 265.5MW wind farms. The deal takes Crusoe's power-first model past Abilene, with the same customer whose request halted a 2.7GW Crusoe build in Wyoming in June.
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The Information puts the price at about 86 times run rate. Reuters says nothing has closed. Either way, teams that pull weights by repo ID now have a silicon vendor in the artifact path.
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Operating cash flow of $2.3bn on $582m of quarterly revenue is what customer prepayment looks like from outside. That gap tells you more about 2027 compute prices than the auction Nebius says cleared 15% high.
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Nscale filed to list on the NYSE at $30bn to $35bn with one unnamed customer behind 73% of its 2025 revenue and 52% of its first half of 2026. Crypto Briefing reports that customer is ByteDance.
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The Financial Times reported that ByteDance supplied 73 percent of that revenue. Nscale's S-1 warns about customer concentration in general terms, and the customer's name sits in an exhibit to a Macquarie loan.
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CoreWeave says key custody is what keeps enterprise AI projects sitting in security review, so its new encryption service leaves the key in tooling the customer already runs and takes the provider off the decrypt list.
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CoreWeave's revenue backlog reached $66.8bn at the end of 2025, or 13.4 times the $5bn of revenue it booked for the year. The contracts are conditioned on delivery, and 2.25 GW of its contracted power is not yet live.
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NVIDIA is investing $2 billion in Amsterdam-based Nebius, and the partnership covers more than 5 gigawatts of deployment by the end of 2030 along with early access to the Rubin platform.
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Oracle's AI growth story and its slipped data center date both sit with one co-CEO, Clay Magouyrk. The founder's two senior titles are unchanged, so what the October program settles is who sells Oracle.
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CoreWeave's new Physical AI Field Engineering service opens with a workshop and a quantified ROI figure, and the compute environment arrives third. More than 100 engagements in, one customer result is named.
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Bloomberg reports the AI cloud provider is negotiating up to $3 billion at $12 billion or more, roughly 4.8 times a September 2025 Forbes estimate, ahead of a possible 2027 listing.
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A mandatory sell-to-cover accounts for roughly 0.05% of insider selling since the lockup expired. The scheduled tranches behind it moved 307,692 shares at a time.
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Management says scale is starting to show up as operating leverage. The release as supplied gives a backlog, power figures and more than $14bn of fresh capital, but no margin numbers.
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