Prysmian and Molex signed a ten-year optical cable agreement worth up to 5.5 billion euros on 20 July 2026, with 550 million paid upfront. The upfront payment is the part that changes your lead times.
Z.ai has finished a gigawatt-class AI data centre running entirely on Chinese-made chips, and bought the software layer that makes one model run across them. The second part is the news.
Microsoft will run AMD Helios racks and MI455X accelerators on Azure. A second source for AI compute only cuts your bill if your stack is portable.
SK hynix customers want 60 to 100 percent more AI memory in 2027. The chairman wants prices lower. That combination tells a European operator what to contract now.
Alibaba's T-Head opened its SAIL software stack to challenge Nvidia's CUDA lock-in. For a European operator the useful lever is not the chip but your own framework layer.
Meta hired Dave Brown, who ran AWS compute for nearly 19 years, to scale its data centres. For the first time a fourth hyperscaler is plausible, and here is what that would change for owners.
Anthropic, valued near a trillion dollars, is in talks to rent about 10 billion dollars of compute from Meta over two years. Why the shortage is structural and what owners should budget for.
TSMC reported second quarter 2026 profit up 77.4% on revenue up 36.0%, with operating margin of 60.3% above the top of its own guidance. The gap between those two numbers is the price rise moving through your hardware.
ASML raised its 2026 outlook and said 2027 EUV capacity is nearly sold out, with big 2028 orders already in. The AI chip supply pipeline is committed years ahead.
Oxylabs raised 130 million dollars at a 3.6 billion valuation on one bet: AI agents will read the web through paid data infrastructure, not the free open web.
A botched key rollover took .AL off the internet, ten weeks after the same thing hit .de. Both times the fix was resolvers switching DNSSEC validation off.
Meta says its Hyperion campus in Louisiana will cost more than 50 billion dollars, five times the first plan. The real driver is a 20-year tax break and private credit, and Europe can match neither.
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