CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform

In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives …

SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 2026, at a valuation of $3.65 billion. The round was led…

Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live
Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live

In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The se…

Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch

In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add…

Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips as Claude revenues surge past $30 billion run rate
Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips as Claude revenues surge past $30 billion run rate

The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. The exploration comes days after the company signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU compute starting in 2027. A compa…

Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion

In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The ne…

OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path
OpenAI pauses Stargate UK as energy costs and copyright rules block the path

In short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nsc…

Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips
Google Cloud deepens AI infrastructure partnership with Intel across Xeon and custom chips

In short: Google Cloud and Intel have announced a deepened multi-year AI infrastructure partnership covering both CPU deployment and custom chip co-development. Google Cloud will continue adopting Intel’s Xeon 6 processors across its global infrastruct…

Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally
Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally

In short: Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders, published on 9 April 2026, reveals that Amazon’s custom chip business, covering Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro, generates more than $20 billion in annualised revenue growing at triple-digit rates yea…

Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson as CFO to manage its $50 billion AI data centre push
Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson as CFO to manage its $50 billion AI data centre push

In short: Oracle has appointed Hilary Maxson, former executive vice president and group chief financial officer at Schneider Electric, as its new chief financial officer, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson reports to chief executive Clay Magouyrk and takes…