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• Sep 28, 2026 · Outsourcing Today

  Corporate AI spending is set to rise by 406% by 2026 compared to last year (analysis)

  This article is an analysis of Revolut Business transaction data on corporate AI spending, not a first-time corporate announcement.

  • Revolut Business AI Data analysis shows business spending on AI products rose 406% versus 2025, based on anonymized and aggregated transactions from 850,000+ business accounts globally.
  • Spending was concentrated in OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor; companies spent $416 vs $42 per user compared with consumers, while Romania’s mid-market segment saw the fastest growth at 440.2% YoY.
  • The analysis covers January 2023 to August 2026 and includes related infrastructure such as GPU-based cloud services and AI model delivery platforms monitored since January 2024.
• Sep 25, 2026

  Gleb Tsipursky: AI Infrastructure Needs Authority Budgets Before Agents Get the Keys

  Broadband Breakfast published an expert opinion arguing that AI agents should be constrained by authority budgets before they are widely deployed. It is commentary and analysis, not a first-time corporate announcement.

  • The piece argues for an authority budget for AI agents: limited delegated power, least privilege, expiring permissions, logging, monitoring, and a fast pause/kill mechanism for higher-risk actions.
  • It cites recent examples and safety positions, including Jacob Coxon leaving Anthropic, Evan Hubinger warning AI could kill all humans, OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident report, and Dario Amodei’s call for stronger regulation and third-party evaluators.
• Sep 25, 2026

  Roundup: / Trump-Xi meeting / Iran’s peace offer / Anthropic’s cloud deal

  This article is a news roundup summarizing recent developments and a reported cloud infrastructure deal, rather than announcing a new action by the publication itself.

  • It covers Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping, noting Trump called it “very productive” but gave no details on agreements involving trade, export controls, Taiwan, or AI.
  • It also summarizes Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks within seven days if conditions are accepted, and reports that Anthropic will pay Akamai Technologies at least $11.6 billion over seven years, potentially rising to about $20 billion, with Akamai expecting $1.7 billion in capex this year.
• Sep 25, 2026

  Roundup: / Trump-Xi meeting / Iran’s peace offer / Anthropic’s cloud deal

  Anthropic has announced a new cloud infrastructure agreement with Akamai Technologies, while the article also reports unrelated geopolitical developments involving the U.S., China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

  • Anthropic will pay Akamai Technologies at least $11.6 billion over seven years for cloud infrastructure and software; the deal could expand to about $20 billion.
  • Akamai said it granted Anthropic a warrant for about 7.7 million shares tied to the initial commitment and added cloud purchases, and expects the deal to add about $1.7 billion to its capital expenditures this year.
• Sep 18, 2026

  Shapiro calls on Trump to regulate artificial intelligence development

  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro called for stronger federal and international regulation of AI during remarks at the AI Horizons summit in Pittsburgh.

  • He said the U.S. should push China for “practical guardrails” and argued that industry leaders should not exclusively guide the regulatory process.
  • Shapiro also criticized the Trump administration’s hands-off approach and said the state recently signed an executive order requiring data center developers to get local approval and removing expedited permitting pathways.
  • The article is a news report/commentary from 90.5 WESA and includes reactions from industry and labor leaders at the summit, plus references to AI companies calling for slower development.
• Sep 9, 2026

  If you lost your LLM tomorrow, would you still have a business?

  The article argues that European AI companies need sovereign fallback infrastructure and should plan for model outages, supplier changes, and regulatory restrictions rather than rely entirely on foreign API providers.

  • It cites a recent Anthropic incident in which the US Department of Commerce allegedly required access restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, leading Anthropic to switch off the models for all customers and restore them 17 days later.
  • It says Europe should retain the ability to run models on internal infrastructure, use open-weight models such as Mistral, Gemma, DeepSeek, and Qwen, and it highlights constraints around funding, grid connections/data centres, and talent retention; it also references the EU’s 19 AI Factories and 13 Antennas attached to EuroHPC supercomputers.
• Sep 9, 2026

  🤖 La Machine #91: Mistral’s €3 Billion Mic Drop

  Mistral AI has announced a €3 billion funding round at a post-money valuation above €21 billion.

  • Samsung led the financing, which Mistral says is the largest private European tech equity round on record.
  • The funds are intended for frontier research, more compute, and Mistral’s own infrastructure; the article also says Mistral has nearly doubled its valuation in a year and is still positioning itself against OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • The piece is a newsletter-style news summary referencing a recent announcement rather than publishing Mistral’s original press release.
  • The article also mentions Mistral’s sovereignty pitch and says competitive models are coming “very soon.”
• Sep 4, 2026

  Self-Improving AI Could Drive Innovation – But Strain Data Centers

  The article discusses how recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could affect data center operations, but it does not announce a new project or deal.

  • The piece is analysis/commentary on RSI, focusing on implications for power, cooling, orchestration, governance, and certification in data centers.
  • It cites Anthropic saying Claude authored more than 80% of its code merged in May 2026, and references Q-CTRL, Uptime Institute, Dell’Oro, Phaidra, Emerald AI, etalytics, and Vigilent as examples or commentators.
  • No investment, contract, or funding figures are provided; the article is a forward-looking industry analysis rather than a primary announcement.
• Aug 28, 2026

  At $125 a Month, Cable TV Nearly as Expensive as Typical Monthly Home Electric Bill, Report Finds

  Gov. Morrisey is reported as being encouraged about a proposed $45 billion Nscale-Anthropic data center deal in West Virginia.

  • The item references a $45 billion data center deal involving Nscale and Anthropic in West Virginia.
  • The text is a headline-style reference to a recent or ongoing announcement, not a full primary-source release; no further project specifics are provided in the excerpt.
• Aug 26, 2026

  🤖 La Machine #89: Is Hugging Face About to Become AI’s Next $13B Prize?

  The newsletter republishes and comments on an earlier Mistral AI appearance before French lawmakers, while also summarizing a separate Mistral-HUMAIN partnership announced by Mistral AI.

  • Arthur Mensch told a French parliamentary inquiry on May 12 that Europe has about two years to secure a meaningful share of AI value creation, warning that AI is now the core of the cloud business and that Europe must focus on high-value AI services rather than low-margin commodity cloud services.
  • The issue also references Mistral AI’s separate strategic partnership with HUMAIN for sovereign AI infrastructure, localized models and enterprise applications across Saudi Arabia and the wider region, and mentions broader newsletter items including a €2bn Microsoft AI data center in Alsace and other AI and data-center-related stories.
• Aug 19, 2026

  Federal Trade Commission Chairman Sees AI Antitrust Risks Upstream

  FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the biggest competitive risks in artificial intelligence are in chips, power, and construction rather than among AI models themselves.

  • Speaking at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum in a fireside chat with Brian Sullivan of CNBC, Ferguson said competition among large language model developers appears healthy, citing near weekly releases from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta.
  • Ferguson said the main concern is input monopolies in chips, energy, and construction, warning against monopoly power upstream and acquisitions that could create a chokepoint in the AI supply chain; he also said FTC enforcement is focused on false marketing claims rather than AI uses deemed merely potentially illegal.
• Aug 19, 2026

  List of AI companies turning to old and rare books for AI training

  Amazon has been reported to be buying old, obscure and rare books and sending them for destructive scanning at its Las Vegas facility VGT3, according to an investigation by 404 Media.

  • 404 Media said it tracked a rare book with a device to Amazon facility VGT3 in Las Vegas; workers reportedly remove spines, scan pages, and discard physical copies.
  • Amazon said it buys books through commercial channels, but did not say how many books it purchases or whether it preserves rare titles; booksellers in Europe and Ireland reported suspicious bulk orders, including 5,000 obscure titles to Kennys.
  • The article also compares Amazon’s practice with similar AI-book uses by Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and Google; it cites Anthropic’s Project Panama, Meta’s discussion of buying Simon & Schuster and paying $10 per book, and Anthropic’s later $1.5 billion settlement over pirated books.
• Aug 13, 2026

  As AI power demand soars, Musk turns to natural gas

  The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX is increasingly relying on natural gas to power its expanding AI infrastructure.

  • SpaceX is building massive AI data centers and a $16.8 billion chip-manufacturing facility in Texas, and is installing its own natural-gas turbines and power plants because grid connections can take years.
  • The report says SpaceX’s data-center power capacity could rise from about 2 GW to 10 GW or even 15 GW by end-2027; it also says SpaceX and xAI have used gas turbines in Tennessee and Mississippi, and that SpaceX has secured cloud agreements with Google and Anthropic.
• Aug 5, 2026

  Essential Summer Reads #1: How Juisci Is Using AI to Save Doctors 8 Hours a Week and Fight Medical Misinformation

  Juisci has announced a €5.5 million funding round to strengthen its R&D and expand into the U.S. market.

  • The Paris-based startup says it now helps 200,000 healthcare professionals in 60 countries access scientific research, using AI to select, summarize, and recommend peer-reviewed studies.
  • The round was led by Ring Capital with Big Pi Ventures and Bpifrance; CEO Robin Roumengas said the platform saves doctors hours each week by giving them key points and links to the original source.