Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 that it would pour $1bn into a new Forward Deployed Engineering unit. […]
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The Japanese group plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The companies that built batteries for electric cars are discovering a new and hungrier customer: the data centre. Panasonic plans to localise production of data-centre battery cells in the United […]
David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered’s former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture […]
Northern Virginia is where the internet physically lives, and a large piece of it just changed hands. Digital Realty has agreed to buy Blackstone’s majority stake in three fully leased data centres in the region, in a transaction that values the assets at $7.8 billion. It is the kind of number that has become routine […]
RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of the business. It sells data, analytics, and the dull certainty of recurring revenue, and it returns the proceeds to shareholders on a metronome. The latest beat of that metronome arrived this week. The company […]
The ink was barely dry. The EU had just signed a trade deal with Washington. A day later, Trump threatened to blow a hole in it. On Friday, the president posted the threat on Truth Social. Any country that imposes a digital services tax on US firms, he wrote, would face “a 100% TARIFF on […]
Most rocket companies buy their fuel. SpaceX wants to pipe it in. Filings in Texas show the company plans to build its own natural gas pipeline, an unusual move for a space firm, and a telling one. SpaceX calls the line Starpipe. It would run eight miles, about 13km, to Starbase, SpaceX’s company town on […]
Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, starting in July. Business Insider first reported […]
For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 and roughly $1.1bn […]
