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Google Selects 28 AI Energy Startups for Grid and Data-Center Power Accelerator

The cohort spans software that manages electricity demand and grid capacity, alongside tools for storage, renewable assets and faster power connections. The near-term test is whether technical support helps those products scale beyond their stated use cases. The companies will receive mentorship from Google’s AI and energy experts and access to its digital tools as they work to scale.

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Blue Owl Leads $2.4 Billion IREN GPU Financing Tied to Hardware Delivery

IREN has a large debt commitment for its Canadian AI-cloud buildout, but the amount becomes available alongside delivered and commissioned hardware—not as one immediate cash payment. Funds managed by Blue Owl Capital have committed $2.4 billion to IREN’s AI-cloud expansion at its Mackenzie campus. The headline sum is not an upfront payment: IREN will draw the facility as equipment is delivered and commissioned.

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SageMaker Feature Store Adds 25-Record Batch Writes and a Record-Discovery API

The new APIs replace one-record write loops and an identifier-discovery blind spot, while leaving teams to handle partial failures and non-snapshot pagination themselves. Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now has answers to two stubborn operational problems: writing features one record at a time and finding records when their identifiers are missing. Each entry can target the online store, the offline store, or both.

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Anthropic Explored $7B MatX Deal, but Keeps a Multi-Chip Route to Custom Silicon

The abandoned acquisition talks point to a costly, slow effort to gain more control over the hardware that trains Claude, without abandoning outside chip suppliers. Anthropic reportedly considered buying AI-chip startup MatX for about $7 billion, then let the negotiations end. Reuters sources said Anthropic discussed an acquisition of MatX at roughly $7 billion.

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TeamPCP’s Trivy Attack Hit 2,500 Organizations; AI Tool Backdoors Are Claimed

The LiteLLM-linked exposure shows how a poisoned dependency can yield reusable developer access. Claims of persistence in AI coding-tool settings would make cleanup harder, but they remain uncorroborated. A compromised build of Aqua Security’s Trivy scanner was used in a supply-chain attack that harvested credentials from more than 2,500 organizations through LiteLLM.

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Pennsylvania Poll Finds 79% Reject Local Data Centers as 84% Back Tighter AI Rules

The state has added local-approval and transparency conditions for developers, but the poll suggests skepticism now reaches both AI companies and the facilities behind them. Pennsylvania voters are wary of both artificial intelligence and the physical infrastructure built to support it: 79% oppose a data center in their community, and 84% favor closer federal regulation of AI companies.

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Nvidia Dynamo’s Agentic Speedups Target the Work Around the Model

The reported gains come from changing how serving systems route, retain and stream state under concurrency. The next challenge is whether these AgentX-specific improvements hold across production mixes and unfinished scheduling work. NVIDIA Dynamo’s agentic-serving optimization work treats the router, request plane and cache-ownership ledger as performance-critical infrastructure—not background plumbing.

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