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Thursday • August 20, 2026
Alibaba Cloud Revenue Jumps 45%. Is the Profit Plunge and China E-Commerce Slide Cause for Concern?
The Veteran Chinese Tech Company Published Its Second-Quarter Earnings on Thursday Morning
Alibaba Group, which shot to fame and prominence as China’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink e-commerce giant, is in the midst of a long transformation. It’s reshaping itself as a leading artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services provider in the massive Asian country, and, in my view, that’s what pushed its U.S.-listed stock up on Thursday.
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Wednesday • March 11, 2026
NVIDIA and Nebius Partner to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud
Deep Engineering Collaboration on AI Factories, Powering Inference & Agentic AI, Enables Nebius to Deploy More Than 5 GWs of NVIDIA Systems by 2030
NVIDIA and Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ: NBIS) today announced a strategic partnership to develop and deploy the next generation of hyperscale cloud for the AI market, from AI natives to enterprises. NVIDIA will invest $2 billion in Nebius, reflecting NVIDIA’s confidence in Nebius’s business and unique depth of engineering expertise across the full AI technology stack.
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Monday • March 9, 2026
Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6 billion valuation
The Company is Building AI Infrastructure, including Data Centers and Cloud Access to Compute
AI data center startup Nscale has raised $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday, as the AI infrastructure boom continues. The Series C featured Nvidia and was led by Aker ASA and 8090 Industries. Founded in 2024, Nscale has emerged as a key player in the AI infrastructure buildout, developing data centers and operating cloud computing services.
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Monday • March 2, 2026
Amazon Pledges Nearly $40 Billion to Expand AI Data-Center Infrastructure in Spain
The Company is Aggressively Pushing to Expand Its Capabilities to Gain an Edge over AI Rivals
Amazon.com said it would invest 33.7 billion euros ($39.82 billion) through 2035 to bolster its cloud and data-center infrastructure in Spain, the latest commitment from the tech company as it seeks to cash in on unrelenting demand for artificial intelligence. Amazon Web Services, the group’s cloud-computing arm, made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, saying it was adding about 18 billion euros to a commitment of 15.7 billion euros that the company announced in 2024.
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Tuesday • January 20, 2026
Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Xbox Cloud Gaming
Bringing Ad-Supported Gaming to Its Cloud Service would give Brands an Entrance into Microsoft’s Premium Gaming Ecosystem
Xbox Cloud Gaming service is limited to players who have Microsoft’s game pass subscription, but the company reportedly has plans to offer non-subscribers access paid for by advertising. Although unconfirmed, ads in this tier are expected to include two-minute pre-roll video ads that are typically unskippable. The service is undergoing internal testing with Microsoft employees.
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Monday • November 24, 2025
Amazon to spend up to $50 billion on AI infrastructure for U.S. government
Amazon said It will Invest as much as $50 Billion on AI Infrastructure to Support U.S. Government Agencies
The project is slated to break ground in 2026 and will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity through new data centers designed for federal agencies, the company said in a blog. As part of the investment, agencies will have access to Amazon Web Services’ AI tools, Anthropic’s Claude family of models and Nvidia chips as well as Amazon’s custom Trainium AI chips.