GE Vernova said its gas turbine order book is full through 2029, with Microsoft, xAI and OpenAI-linked data-center projects showing how AI capacity plans are moving closer to firm power supply.

#AI data centers #gas turbines #GE Vernova

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BMW i Ventures Puts $300 Million Fund Behind Physical AI Startups

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BMW i Ventures Puts $300 Million Fund Behind Physical AI Startups

BMW i Ventures launched Fund III with $300 million for physical AI, agentic AI, industrial software, manufacturing technology and advanced materials, lifting total capital under management to $1.1 billion.

#venture capital #physical AI #BMW i Ventures

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Microsoft Puts Agentic Cloud Ops Behind Azure Copilot And FinOps Tools

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Microsoft Puts Agentic Cloud Ops Behind Azure Copilot And FinOps Tools

Microsoft said Azure Copilot observability agent is generally available and Azure Resource Manager MCP Server is in public preview, tying agentic cloud operations to governance, cost visibility and human approval.

#Azure Copilot #agentic cloud operations #FinOps

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Google Cloud Adds Agent-Level Perimeters For Enterprise AI Workloads

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Google Cloud Adds Agent-Level Perimeters For Enterprise AI Workloads

Google Cloud has added VPC Service Controls features for agentic AI, including agent identities in perimeter rules, MCP attribute controls and native protection for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform instances.

#Google Cloud #VPC Service Controls #agentic AI

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs Add Stateful Sandboxes For AI-Generated Code

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs Add Stateful Sandboxes For AI-Generated Code

AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs for isolated, stateful execution environments, giving developers Firecracker-backed sandboxes for user- or AI-generated code with runtime, region and resource limits.

#AWS Lambda MicroVMs #Firecracker #serverless compute

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FCA Links Agentic Finance To Tokenisation And Third-Party Risk

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FCA Links Agentic Finance To Tokenisation And Third-Party Risk

FCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi said AI is moving financial markets faster than traditional rulemaking, with agentic systems, tokenisation and third-party model dependence reshaping supervision.

#FCA #AI regulation #agentic finance

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Tipalti Targets Future IPO As AI Tools Pressure Finance Teams

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Tipalti Targets Future IPO As AI Tools Pressure Finance Teams

Tipalti president Rob Israch said the finance-automation company expects sustained profitability by early 2027, while customers push for AI tools inside payments, procurement and expense workflows.

#Tipalti #finance automation #AI tools

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OpenAI IPO Talk Runs Ahead Of Investor Meetings And Timetable

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OpenAI IPO Talk Runs Ahead Of Investor Meetings And Timetable

OpenAI has confidentially filed with the SEC, but people familiar with the company say it has not held pre-IPO investor meetings or set an official listing timetable.

#OpenAI #IPO pipeline #Anthropic

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Apple Seeks US Clearance For CXMT Memory As Chip Prices Rise

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Apple Seeks US Clearance For CXMT Memory As Chip Prices Rise

Apple is seeking US clearance to buy memory chips from CXMT, a Chinese supplier on a Pentagon blacklist, after higher memory and storage chip prices pushed up costs for several Macs and iPads.

#memory chips #CXMT #Apple

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Unconventional AI Tests Oscillator Models Before Power-Efficient Chip Proof

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Unconventional AI Tests Oscillator Models Before Power-Efficient Chip Proof

Unconventional AI has released the Un-0 model series to test oscillator-based image generation, but the work still runs on simulated oscillators rather than a physical AI accelerator.

#Unconventional AI #oscillator computing #AI accelerators

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IBM, Red Hat And Deloitte Put Lightwell On Regulated Open-Source Patch Work

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IBM, Red Hat And Deloitte Put Lightwell On Regulated Open-Source Patch Work

Deloitte is joining IBM and Red Hat’s Lightwell initiative to map open-source components, validate patches and support regulated software supply chains, backed by IBM and Red Hat’s $5 billion commitment.

#cybersecurity #IBM #Red Hat

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Zhipu GLM 5.2 Pressures Frontier AI Labs As Access Limits Bite

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Zhipu GLM 5.2 Pressures Frontier AI Labs As Access Limits Bite

Zhipu’s open-source GLM 5.2 is being pitched as a lower-cost enterprise alternative after landing near Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on an agentic benchmark while frontier model access faces government limits.

#Zhipu #GLM 5.2 #open source AI

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