Crusoe CEO cites nearly $4 billion funding, valuation near $31 billion
Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller said the AI infrastructure company has nearly $4 billion in fresh funding, lifting its valuation to almost $31 billion. He said the capital will support building data centers, cloud computing, and manag...
Ryft secures €23 million Series B for payments expansion
Manchester payments company Ryft secured a €23 million (£20 million) Series B led by Gresham House Ventures. Ryft said it will use the funding to expand in Europe and the U.S., accelerate product development and move upmarket. The...
CleanSpark plans $2.227B secured notes for Sandersville data center
CleanSpark announced a $2.227 billion senior secured notes offering due 2031 through subsidiary CSDC Finance I LLC, a private placement subject to market conditions. The company said proceeds will fund remaining construction at i...
UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics
The United Nations on Thursday announced the UN System Data Commons with Google, replacing the UNData portal with a natural-language platform that supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can query official statistics dir...
AWS adds Gemma 4 open-weight models to Bedrock in EU sovereign cloud
Amazon Web Services said Gemma 4, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model family, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS called it the first open-weight family...
AWS opens general availability of T8i burstable EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services said burstable EC2 T8i instances are generally available, using custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) that the company said are available only on AWS. AWS said the instances a...
