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Nebius cloud revenue jumps 514% to $575M

The AI compute buildout is still printing growth numbers: Amsterdam's Nebius posted another triple-digit quarter, enterprise AI's missing-context problem pulled in a $63 million bet, and the ChatGPT dog-cancer vaccine story officially became a startup. Nebius, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that carries Yandex's international infrastructure business, reported Q2 cloud revenue of $575 million, up 514% year over year — with total revenue of $582 million beating the $557 million analysts…

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Alibaba Cloud's Zhenwu M890 supernode runs 2T-parameter models

China's compute buildout just got a new centerpiece, and South Korea's flagship AI project hit an embarrassing checkpoint. Alibaba Cloud is renting out a supernode that can train trillion-scale models, while Seoul's government-backed models stumble over a two-sentence reasoning question. Alibaba Cloud has made its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 super-node instances generally available, positioning them as the first supernode in China to run models exceeding 2 trillion parameters.

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Lumentum's revenue doubles as AI data centers go optical

Optical networking is writing the AI buildout's next earnings chapter: Lumentum's quarterly revenue more than doubled as hyperscalers wire their data centers with light, and a Chinese province drew the line on how schools may use AI. Lumentum's fiscal Q4 revenue more than doubled year over year to $1.01 billion, beating estimates as AI data centers race to replace copper links with optical connectivity.

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China's biggest edge-AI unicorn ModelBest files for A-share IPO

The AI story this cycle is usually written in data centers — but two items overnight point elsewhere: China's largest on-device model maker is heading for the public market, and a new paper hands diffusion language models scaling rules of their own. Beijing ModelBest, China's biggest edge-AI unicorn, has officially started the A-share IPO process, signing a tutoring agreement with CITIC Securities that was posted to the securities regulator's website on August 12.

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Supermicro's record year shows AI server demand is still booming

Two readings of the AI buildout landed overnight: the machine that assembles the servers posted a record year and a stock surge, and a new benchmark suggested AI models still can't do original research — only optimize what humans already built. Supermicro capped fiscal 2026 with record revenue of $39.1 billion, up 78 percent year over year, and fourth-quarter revenue of $11.1 billion, up 93 percent, sending the stock up about 9 percent in extended trading.

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Alibaba Cloud's CUBE 5.0 builds AI data centers in 100 days

Two infrastructure stories frame the day: Alibaba Cloud is industrializing the AI data center — compressing builds that once took a year into 100 days — and Ryanair is handing its operations to Gemini agents. Alibaba Cloud says its CUBE 5.0 modular architecture can deliver a large-scale AI data center in about 100 days, a build that traditionally runs six to 12 months in China and 12 to 18 months in the US.

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CME to launch GPU rental futures as AI compute goes tradable

The AI buildout took two steps toward becoming a real financial market today: CME Group is turning GPU rental into a traded commodity, and Super Micro's earnings showed the demand underneath it is still accelerating. Plus, Uber and Serve Robotics — the sidewalk-delivery robot company it helped spin out — are officially done with each other. CME Group will start trading GPU rental futures on October 5, turning the cost of AI compute into a standardized, tradable commodity for the first time.

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Mojo 1.0 ships — Modular's AI-native language goes stable

Modular today released Mojo 1.0, the first stable version of Chris Lattner's AI-native programming language, three years after its debut. The release caps a roadmap laid out last December and turns a language long viewed as promising-but-moving into one the company says developers can build on for years. Mojo 1.0 is here: Modular shipped the stable version of its AI-native language on August 11 as part of the Modular 26.5 release.

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Mistral rallies ASML and partners behind 1GW European AI compute

Europe's sovereign-AI push got concrete today. Mistral turned regional inference, third-party open models, and a coalition of industrial giants into a single infrastructure play — and a coalition of more than 40 digital-asset organizations pressed AI labs to open frontier models to defenders. Mistral moved its sovereign-AI pitch from manifesto to product line, announcing generally available regional inference endpoints, an SLA-backed priority tier, and a coalition of European industrial giants…

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AI scrapers hit one site 214 times for every human visit

The AI economy's quiet cost showed up in one publisher's server logs this week: a 1.5-million-page site found bots outnumbering humans by more than 200 to one — and its analytics dashboard never saw them. A year of server logs from PatronView, a 1.5-million-page philanthropy research site, shows AI crawlers now generate more than 99% of its traffic — roughly 214 non-human page loads for every human one.

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Anthropic locks in $9.1B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot

Anthropic is buying compute from an unlikely landlord: Riot Platforms, the Bitcoin miner that is repurposing its Texas power sites for AI — and the market is cheering. Anthropic has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms, the Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

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Zankore — Indonesia builds Southeast Asia's largest AI factory

The race to build Southeast Asia's compute backbone just got a new front-runner. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA have teamed up on Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure venture that targets up to 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity — which the partners bill as one of Southeast Asia's largest AI factory platforms. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has joined Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA to launch Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure venture targeting up to 1 GW of…

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