The Top AI News Stories Today

Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist famous for her legal battles against corporate polluters, has turned her attention to data centre secrecy. Ms Brockovich is pushing for greater transparency around the environmental and water-use impacts of large computing facilities built to power artificial intelligence systems, raising concerns about the industry's opacity in disclosing its operational footprint.

SoftBank said it will invest up to €75 billion to build data centers in France, with the goal of developing and operating up to 5 gigawatts of additional capacity. The Japanese conglomerate is betting on French infrastructure to support artificial-intelligence workloads as demand for computing power surges across Europe. Source Microsoft's Github Copilot is moving

Groq, a chipmaker, is raising $650 million in internal funding as it pivots away from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining how AI models respond to prompted requests. The round comes after Nvidia announced a $20 billion deal that was characterised as a not-acquisition of AI talent. Source A South

Anthropic has closed a Series H funding round of $65 billion at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what the startup describes as its final private fundraise before a highly anticipated initial public offering. The artificial-intelligence company, which competes with OpenAI and Google on large language models, has now secured substantial capital ahead of its

Snowflake has signed a five-year deal with Amazon worth $6 billion to secure chips for AI workloads. The data-platform company will procure artificial-intelligence processors from AWS, putting further pressure on Nvidia's dominance in the market for specialised silicon. Source Remote, a payroll-service provider, surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved cash-flow positivity by