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Anthropic’s draft IPO filing reveals extraordinary future compute commitmentsThe draft filing reportedly lists roughly $450 billion in signed cloud and infrastructure commitments, with broader obligations exceeding $600 billion. Anthropic reported $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion accounting loss, much of it tied to financing instruments.→SWI raises €800 million to expand transatlantic AI infrastructureThe financing will support power infrastructure, compute deployments and a development pipeline across Europe and the United States. SWI said the transaction raises its total equity since March 2026 above €1 billion.→Insidepacket launches an operator-controlled on-ramp to GPU cloudsThe AI Access Platform is planned for Europe initially with Zayo Europe. It gives operators a marketplace layer for private connectivity to participating compute providers without requiring enterprises to build separate network projects.→Samsung commits $1 billion to KKR-backed Helix AI infrastructureSamsung Electronics will provide $500 million, with five other affiliates supplying the remainder. Helix combines hyperscale data centres, power generation, transmission, distribution and fibre infrastructure for AI workloads.→Anthropic IPO prospectus reveals unprecedented compute commitments and lossesThe prospectus reportedly shows Anthropic lost about $42 billion in 2025 while planning $518 billion in future cloud, compute and infrastructure obligations. The proposed listing could value the company above $2 trillion and would expose frontier-lab economics to public-market scrutiny.→Hut 8 secures $1.07 billion facility for AI infrastructure expansionThe facility provides $1.07 billion of committed liquidity and includes a letter-of-credit sublimit for interconnection deposits, site development and equipment obligations. Hut 8 said the financing supports its River Bend and Beacon Point AI data-centre projects.→PoEM predicts reinforcement-learning outcomes without rerunning trainingPoEM models post-trained policies as combinations in log-policy space and estimates new policy outcomes from existing policy outputs. Experiments across synthetic and real rewards cover both text and image modalities, potentially reducing repeated reinforcement-learning runs.→Luxor launches a full-stack AI infrastructure businessThe new Luxor AI business combines power procurement, GPU and server brokerage, compute contracts, derivatives and cloud products. Luxor says its agentic cloud has processed 1.8 million workloads year to date.→SoftBank launches $11 billion bond sale to fund OpenAI investmentReuters reported that SoftBank’s proposed bond sale would fund a planned $10 billion payment for a further OpenAI investment. If completed at the planned size, it would rank among the largest corporate bond offerings in Asia-Pacific and globally this year.→Mistral AI raises €3 billion to scale frontier models and infrastructureSamsung Electronics led the round, with ScaleUp Europe Fund and PSG co-leading. Mistral said the capital will fund frontier research, compute, infrastructure, products and commercial expansion.→India and Sweden deepen cooperation on sovereign and industrial AIThe cooperation is being pursued under the Sweden-India Transformative Innovation and Climate Action partnership. The two sides identified possible pilots, co-development and broader partnerships, but did not announce a binding commercial or procurement agreement.→Moody’s finds Chinese AI firms narrowing the physical compute gapSCMP reported that Moody’s Ratings sees US hyperscalers spending far more on AI infrastructure, but a smaller gap in physical compute because Chinese buildouts are cheaper and benefit from policy incentives and lower-cost green power. The report projects Chinese technology companies’ capital expenditure will rise from about US$65 billion in 2025 to roughly US$140 billion in 2026 and US$165 billion in 2027.→Anthropic abandoned a proposed $7 billion MatX acquisition while pursuing custom siliconAnthropic explored acquiring MatX for roughly $7 billion to accelerate its internal chip-design effort, according to people briefed on the matter. MatX is now seeking funding at an approximately $4 billion valuation, while Anthropic continues to examine multiple chip approaches.→Anthropic signs reported $45 billion compute deal with NscaleAnthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from British infrastructure company Nscale, using NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems. The reported six-year arrangement is expected to begin powering Anthropic services in late 2027.→NVIDIA backs Lancium’s gigawatt-scale AI-factory pipelineLancium says it has 4 GW of leased capacity and more than 15 GW of powered-land development pipeline. The plan uses NVIDIA’s full-stack platform and DSX reference designs, including grid-responsive power-management capabilities; the portfolio figures are company-reported.→Sharon AI accepts the first phase of a US$950 million Australian AI-cloud contractSharon AI says the acceptance completes a milestone in a five-year agreement with an initial value of about US$950 million and covers NVIDIA GPU clusters across Australian data centres. It also says it has secured 212 MW of AI-factory capacity, including 120 MW under multi-year take-or-pay contracts; the customer and independent contract details were not identified in the release.→Groq raises $350 million as it pivots from AI chips to neocloudGroq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, with Disruptive leading and Nvidia planning to participate. The company said it will expand its neocloud capacity from 54 megawatts to more than 200 megawatts in 2027.→Nvidia invests $1.5 billion in SB Energy for an Ohio AI campusNvidia said it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy and secure capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus. Nvidia said the initial AI-factory deployment is expected to provide 4.25 gigawatts, with OpenAI as tenant.→Cursor officially joins SpaceXCursor says the acquisition process begun in April is complete and that it will remain focused on making advanced models useful in software development. The company says SpaceX will provide access to substantial GPU capacity and that Cursor has begun testing Grok 4.6.→