SoftBank is betting that the real money in AI isn't just training models or running inference—it's keeping the lights on when the grid can't. SoftBank's mobile unit is launching large-scale battery cell manufacturing at its Sakai, Osaka plant to address surging power demand for AI data centers
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The AI chip boom is creating a macro problem no one planned for: too much money flowing in one direction. Goldman forecasts South Korea and Taiwan will hit record current-account surpluses driven by surging AI chip demand, forcing their central banks toward rate hikes later this year.
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When a Swiss wealth manager famous for caution starts moving billions into AI stocks, it's not enthusiasm—it's capitulation to where the returns are. Pictet's $3.5 billion multi-asset fund moved 30% of cash into AI stocks across Asia and US, marking a major shift from defensive positioning
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Google's parent company just opened a new funding spigot in Tokyo — because the AI arms race costs more than American debt markets want to carry alone. Alphabet is issuing yen-denominated bonds for the first time, tapping Japanese institutional investors as AI infrastructure costs mount
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The company that makes your iPhone just proved the AI gold rush is a hardware story, and the picks-and-shovels play is outpacing the miners. Hon Hai (Foxconn) posted 29.7% revenue growth in April, driven by AI server manufacturing for Nvidia and other chip partners
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The world's largest asset manager is now placing bigger bets on AI infrastructure than most hyperscalers are placing on themselves. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink announced at Milken that his firm will partner with an unnamed hyperscaler to build data centers, with details coming this week
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Moving AI inference to space to escape Earth's grid constraints sounds visionary until you remember you still have to get the answers back down. Orbital Inc., a Los Angeles startup backed by A16z, plans to launch space-based data centers for AI inference starting with a 2027 prototype
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The factory floor just became the new arms race — and the 3D printer is winning. British startup Skycutter is manufacturing interceptor drones for Ukraine using 3D printers and hand assembly, with partner factories in Ukraine producing hundreds of thousands monthly.
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When retail capital moves this fast, it's not a trend—it's a referendum on the asset class itself. South Korean crypto holdings collapsed from $83 billion to $41 billion in just over a year as investors rotated into equities
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Nvidia just bet on turning suburban garages into AI infrastructure—and if you think *you're* the customer, you haven't looked at your electric bill lately.
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The billionaires building the machines that might replace you are now debating what you'll do when they're done. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang are publicly discussing a post-work future where AI handles production and humans live in "universal high income" abundance
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A16z just bet $15 billion that the future belongs to builders who ignore the circus. Andreessen Horowitz raised $15B for its American Dynamism fund, targeting AI and crypto infrastructure while crypto markets trade sideways.
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The fight isn't over whether stablecoins can pay yield. It's over who gets to be the bank when money becomes programmable. Senate panel considering landmark digital asset bill with stablecoin provisions, banking groups pushing last-minute changes to compromise language on yield-bearing stablecoins
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Europe's biggest software company just wrote a check that says the agent wars won't be won by the labs with the most compute—they'll be won by whoever owns the enterprise connectors.
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The chip maker isn't just selling shovels in the gold rush — it's buying stakes in every mine. Nvidia has deployed $40 billion in equity stakes across AI companies in 2026 so far, positioning itself as both supplier and investor in the infrastructure layer
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The smart money isn't betting on who wins the LLM wars—they're buying the ground beneath the battlefield. Ares estimates a $900 billion opportunity for third-party data center investment, excluding what hyperscalers spend on their own infrastructure
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The market wanted an AI miracle, got a smartphone headache instead. Arm's sales forecast slightly beat estimates, driven by AI infrastructure demand, but shares dropped 9% as smartphone royalty revenue stalled
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The man who called Claude "woke" just handed Anthropic the keys to his GPU kingdom. Elon Musk's xAI is opening its data center infrastructure to Anthropic, a shocking reversal given their public feuding over AI safety and politics
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The world's most addictive app is now spending nearly $30 billion a year to build the infrastructure that will make it even harder to look away.
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The AI infrastructure gold rush just learned an expensive lesson: in Virginia, you can lose a billion-dollar data center project because someone forgot to run a legal notice in the right newspaper.
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