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Ilya Sutskever’s stealth-mode venture, Safe Superintelligence, has chosen Google Cloud’s TPU chips to power its research into safe superintelligent AI. The move signals a deepening link between ex-Google AI minds and the cloud giant. With $1B in backing and a singular focus on safety, SSI is now pouring resources into scaling its vision—fueled largely by Google’s compute muscle.

InMotion Hosting has quietly overhauled its Shared Hosting plans, introducing built-in malware defense, smarter resource handling, and automated backups. With threats rising and budgets tightening, these behind-the-scenes upgrades aim to give small business owners and bloggers peace of mind without extra cost or complexity. It’s a nod to the shifting baseline of what “basic” hosting now demands in today’s web climate.

Oxford-born Lumai has raised over $10 million to scale its optical AI accelerator—a novel chip that uses light, not electrons, to compute. As data centers face soaring energy demands, Lumai’s photonic approach promises drastic power savings and outsized performance. Backed by Constructor Capital and others, the startup aims to triple its team and ramp U.S. expansion, challenging silicon’s grip on AI infrastructure.

ACS plans to invest €1.2 billion in a 150MW data center near Zaragoza as it continues shifting from construction to digital infrastructure. With potential to double capacity and future ties to Spain’s growing cloud ecosystem, the project reflects ACS’s broader 5GW pipeline and strengthens Aragon’s fast-emerging role as a key data hub in southern Europe.

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