Nvidia to invest up to $1B in French AI startup Poolside as its valuation soars to $12B 

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Nvidia is preparing to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside, whose valuation is set to leap to…

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Samsung Electronics, Nvidia to Build AI Factory in New Chip Deal

Kimberley Kao / wsj - Samsung Electronics will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia graphics processing units, embedding artificial intelligence throughout the semiconductor manufacturing flow.

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Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

Shannon Carroll / qz - AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

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Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk

Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.

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Scavenger AI raises €2.5M to make company data accessible to every employee

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Frankfurt-based Scavenger AI has raised €2.5 million in seed funding to make company data easy to access—just by asking a question. The round was led by BMH Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen (BMH), with participation from xdeck, and existing inve…

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AWS opens $11B Project Rainier data center campus built for Anthropic

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Amazon Web Services Inc. has opened a $11 billion data center campus in Indiana that will run artificial intelligence models for Anthropic PBC. CNBC reported the milestone today. The campus, which is located near Lake Michigan, was built as part of an ini…

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Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Alphabet/Google reported that it earned a net income of $35 billion on revenues of $102.3 billion in the quarter ending September 30, 2025.The post Alphabet/Google Earnings Jump 16 Percent to $102.3 Billion appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip

Shannon Carroll / qz - Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins

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China deploys wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast — $226 million project could top 24 megawatts, harnessing the cooling power of the sea

tomshardware - China has launched what it claims is the world’s first wind-powered undersea data center — a sealed, seawater-cooled cluster sitting 35 meters beneath the surface off the coast of Shanghai.

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Zurich-based Qala Raises €1.7M To Boost Enterprise Data Governance

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Switzerland-based Qala AG, a startup transforming enterprise data visibility and governance, has raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding to advance its source-level data observability and compliance platform. The round was led by QBIT Capital and Haatch, …

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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these syst…

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Rotterdam’s Builders raises €3M to scale enterprise AI startups and launch €25M fund

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Rotterdam-based venture studio Builders has raised an additional €3 million, bringing its total funding to €4.5 million. The…

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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers

Sean McLain / wsj - The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.

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Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic launches 'Claude for Excel,' a new AI tool that directly competes with Microsoft's Copilot by targeting the financial services industry with deep data integrations.The post Anthropic Challenges Microsoft Copilot with ‘Claude for Excel’ Launch ap…

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Microsoft–OpenAI: Big numbers, thin footnotes

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Microsoft buried OpenAI losses in a $4.7B catch-all line without disclosing stake size, fair value, or revenue mechanics—despite a partner now worth $500B. Investors can't map exposure or returns. The gaps are fixable and overdue.

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Nordic Capital Acquires UK Market Data Firm BMLL

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based BMLL a leading provider of harmonised historical market data and analytics, is set to be acquired by Nordic Capital, in partnership with BMLL’s management and minority shareholder Optiver. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed. Founded i…

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