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Big Tech locks in about $1.09 trillion in uncommenced AI data-center leases, Reuters finds

Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Oracle, Amazon, and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom, Reuters reported from company filings. The commitments show a substantial pa…

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August 2026 6 events
  1. CoreWeave expands into Indonesia with three data centers, first Asia-Pacific sites
  2. Anthropic signs a $10bn compute deal with a week-old cloud startup
  3. Snap beats Q2 revenue estimates on World Cup ads; shares jump 13%
  4. White House finalizes voluntary AI cyber tests; Meta and Anthropic invited to briefings
  5. Amazon market value tops $3 trillion as AI lifts cloud demand
  6. DeepSeek V4-Flash is cheapest well-known model to run on Artificial Analysis tests, firm says
July 2026 28 events
  1. Google pauses AI image generation in Google Earth after policy violations
  2. Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
  3. Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
  4. Over 1,100 tech employees urge U.S. backing for global AI development pacing effort
  5. Meta and BlackRock form $14 billion El Paso data-center venture
  6. Yoodli Appoints Former Meta and Coalition Product Leader Kartik Murthy as VP of Product
  7. Elio raises $21 million Series A for AI-native optical sensors
  8. Meta launches new app 'Seller' to provide sales tools for merchants
  9. Meta AI Doesn't Just Think, It Acts
  10. Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
  11. Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters
  12. Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app
Show 16 earlier events
  1. Meta AI: SAM 3 and DINOv3 cut DOE Genesis Mission 3D volume labeling from ~1 month to ~15 minutes
  2. Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album
  3. Meta commits $50B to Louisiana data center, surrounding region
  4. Anthropic is Keeping Free Claude Fable 5 Access Longer Than Planned
  5. Anthropic's $19B TeraWulf Deal Fuels the Neocloud Boom
  6. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
  7. Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers
  8. Adobe Advertising Just Launched Its Own Custom Algorithms Product
  9. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
  10. Muse Spark 1.1
  11. Meta AI app adds image generation, also powering WhatsApp and Instagram features
  12. Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
  13. Meta launches Muse Image AI image generator from Superintelligence Labs
  14. Bespoke Labs Announces $40M to Build the Environments That Train Reliable Agents
  15. OpenAI proposes US government own 5% stake to address political blowback
  16. Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026 8 events
  1. Magnificent 7 lose $2.3 trillion in June market value as AI spending fears mount
  2. Zuckerberg directs Meta to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi while building prediction markets app
  3. Qualcomm forecasts $15 billion data center chip sales by 2029, shares soar
  4. Qualcomm rolls out AI data center CPU, signs Meta as major customer
  5. Only 16% of Americans see positive AI societal impact per Pew
  6. Meta reports Threads reaching 500 million monthly active users
  7. AI Collaborations, From Strategic License to Strategic Acquisition
  8. Instagram alerts users targeted in ongoing Meta AI chatbot account takeover attacks
May 2026 21 events
  1. Hackers exploit Meta AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts
  2. Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale raises $250M climate/physical economy fund
  3. Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
  4. Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
  5. How AI Data Centers Are Reshaping Electronic Component Supply in 2026
  6. Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions with more to come including AI plans
  7. Human Archive taps Indias gig economy to collect data for physical AI
  8. DuckDuckGo installs up 30% as users reject Googles AI search
  9. AI Guardrails Stripped From Meta and Google Models in Minutes
  10. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
  11. Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user
  12. Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
Show 9 earlier events
  1. Can Companies Insure Against AI's Growing Risks?
  2. Meta Ends Instagram Encryption, Canvas Hit by Ransomware Attack
  3. Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage
  4. Threads finally brings messaging to the web
  5. NVIDIA Fast-Forwarded Co-Packaged Optics Five Years Ahead of Schedule, Arriving First With Its Feynman GPUs
  6. New Mexico Seeks Sweeping Changes to Meta Platforms in Public Nuisance Trial
  7. Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup Assured Robot Intelligence for Humanoid Push
  8. Replit CEO Masad says company will try to stay independent amid rival Cursor sale talks
  9. Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
April 2026 87 events
  1. Meta threatens to withdraw apps from New Mexico over state age-verification demands
  2. Amazon and Meta lobby India payments regulator over Google Pay and PhonePe dominance
  3. Meta has lost $83.5 billion on Reality Labs since 2021
  4. Apple researchers unveil LaDiR framework that uses parallel diffusion to improve LLM reasoning
  5. EU says Meta fails to keep children under 13 off Facebook and Instagram
  6. Paragon Said to Be Uncooperative With Italian Spyware Investigation
  7. More Than 700 Meta AI Contract Workers in Ireland Face Layoffs
  8. Australia proposes 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok unless they pay news publishers
  9. Meta signs deal for space-based solar power to fuel data centers
  10. China orders Meta to unwind $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
  11. Italian Spyware Firm IPS Linked to Fake-App Android Surveillance Campaign
  12. Meta sued in class action over scam ads, internal docs cited
Show 75 earlier events
  1. Meta and Microsoft cut more than 23,000 jobs as AI spending rises
  2. Thinking Machines Lab hires talent from Meta as AI talent war escalates
  3. Meta and Microsoft cuts of more than 20,000 jobs renew fears of AI-driven labor disruption
  4. Meta to Cut 10% of Workforce, About 8,000 Employees
  5. Meta to cut 8,000 jobs in latest restructuring push toward AI
  6. Meta to lay off 10% of staff, about 8,000 workers, in May
  7. Meta installs employee tracking tool to train AI agents
  8. Gas-Powered Data Center Projects Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
  9. Tencent Launches International Beta for QClaw AI Agent
  10. Meta to capture employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training
  11. Consumer Federation of America sues Meta over scam advertisements
  12. Homeland Security developing smart glasses with facial recognition for ICE agents
  13. Jeff Bezos close to $10B funding for AI lab Project Prometheus
  14. Instagram bug turned HDR photos black and white for some users
  15. Tech CEOs explore AI avatars and direct-report systems to expand managerial presence
  16. Dubai police arrest airline worker after accessing private WhatsApp group with bomb damage photos
  17. Developer tooling startup Expo raises $45M Series B for React Native framework
  18. Meta preparing to add direct messaging to Threads web version
  19. Three senior OpenAI executives depart as company shuts down Sora and other 'side quests' in enterprise pivot
  20. OpenAI executive departs as company restructures scientific research division
  21. Hacker who breached US Supreme Court filing system gets probation
  22. Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
  23. Nas Daily's AI Platform Nas.com Raises $27 Million Series A Led by Khosla Ventures
  24. European Governments Shift from WhatsApp to Local Messaging Apps
  25. Google Partners with Gucci on AI Smart Glasses for 2027 Launch
  26. Age verification technologies face privacy and accuracy challenges
  27. Meta raises Quest VR headset prices due to RAM shortage
  28. Snap cuts 1,000 jobs, citing AI advancements for workforce reduction
  29. Meta captures 70% of social media ad revenue as Facebook, Instagram dominate market
  30. AI data center startup Fluidstack reportedly in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation
  31. NAACP sues xAI over unpermitted gas turbines at AI data center
  32. Hacker breaches A16Z-backed AI startup Doublespeed, attempts to post memes calling VC firm 'antichrist'
  33. Civil Rights Groups Demand Meta Halt Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Plans
  34. North Korean APT37 Uses Facebook to Deliver RokRAT Malware
  35. Apple Testing Four Smart Glasses Designs to Rival Meta Ray-Bans
  36. IBM pays $17 million to settle DOJ allegations over DEI practices
  37. Apple and Meta challenge Texas social media age verification laws in court brief
  38. Estonia opposes EU-wide child social media bans, citing enforcement concerns
  39. Three OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart for Meta
  40. CoreWeave Stock Rises 11 Percent on Anthropic Partnership for Claude AI Infrastructure
  41. Lumentum AI Demand Backfills Orders Through 2028
  42. Meta Releases New AI Model, Positioning for Competition
  43. Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave for AI infrastructure through 2032
  44. CoreWeave Signs $21 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With Meta
  45. Meta Outlines Long-Term Strategy for Custom AI Training Chips
  46. Meta Launches Muse Spark, Its First Proprietary AI Model From Superintelligence Labs
  47. Major tech stocks rally following U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement
  48. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
  49. EU Parliament Blocks Extension of Mass Chat Scanning Program
  50. Meta employees compete on internal AI token usage leaderboard
  51. Bezos' Project Prometheus recruits xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI
  52. Meta to release first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang
  53. Meta pauses Mercor partnership after LiteLLM-linked data breach
  54. Meta pauses work with Mercor after $10 billion AI staffing startup confirms security breach
  55. EU CSAM scanning legislation expires, leaving tech firms in legal limbo
  56. Meta suspends Mercor partnership following security breach
  57. Meta suspends AI data operations after training secrets exposed in breach
  58. Mark Zuckerberg Returns to Writing Code After Two Decades, Submits Diffs and Uses Claude Code Heavily
  59. Meta's 'Project Walleye' Ohio Data Center Campus Seeks $3 Billion in Loans Covering Building and Power
  60. Anthropic Forms AnthroPAC, a Bipartisan Employee-Funded Political Action Committee
  61. Meta, Microsoft, and Google Are Betting Big on Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers
  62. H.264 Video Streaming License Fees Jump From $100,000 Cap to $4.5 Million in Restructured System
  63. Arm Architecture on Track to Power 90% of AI Server Custom Silicon by 2029
  64. AI Cited as Cause of 25% of US Job Cuts in March as Tech Layoffs Accelerate
  65. Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled as Power and Parts Shortages Bite
  66. Meta and Google Face Legal Challenges as Court Cases Begin to Erode Section 230 Protections
  67. Unable to Access Top Chips, Researchers Embrace 'Frugal AI' Built on Smaller Open Models
  68. Lawsuit Claims Perplexity's Incognito Mode Shared Private Chats With Google and Meta
  69. US Electrical Equipment Shortage Threatens AI Data Center Buildout as Imports Stall
  70. Meta Tells Oversight Board It May End Funding After 2028, Sources Say
  71. Flipboard Launches Surf, a Fediverse Client and Custom Feed Reader for the Open Social Web
  72. Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
  73. UK Social Media Users Are Posting Less as Passive Video Consumption Rises, Ofcom Reports
  74. SpaceX Confidentially Files for IPO Targeting $1.75 Trillion Valuation
  75. Jury Verdicts Against Meta and YouTube Target Platform Design, Not Just Content -- and That Changes the Legal Picture
March 2026 37 events
  1. Meta Faces Thousands More Lawsuits Over Teen Harm After First Major Accountability Ruling
  2. Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
  3. Big Tech's $635 Billion AI Spending Plans Face Energy Supply Test, S&P Global Warns
  4. Babel Audio Pays Strangers $17 an Hour to Record Conversations for AI Training Data
  5. Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
  6. Mistral AI Raises $830 Million to Expand Nvidia GPU Data Center Capacity
  7. Your Photos Are Leaking Your Location. Here's What the Metadata Contains
  8. Solar Is Winning the Global Energy Race
  9. Bluesky Launches Attie, an AI App for Building Custom Feeds
  10. The Texas Lawyer Who Beat Meta and Google. and Said Zuckerberg Was 'Rattled' on the Stand
  11. California State Court Jury Find Meta and Google Liable for Teen Addiction
  12. Mark Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk to Offer Help With DOGE
Show 25 earlier events
  1. Meta Agrees to Fund Natural Gas Plants to Power Its Louisiana Data Center
  2. Arm Builds Its Own Chip for the First Time, for AI, and Meta Gets Dibs
  3. Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
  4. Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout
  5. Meta Hires Dreamer AI Team, Hugo Barra Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs
  6. OpenAI Hires Meta VP Dave Dugan to Lead Ad Sales
  7. Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over after ~$80 billion and a company rename
  8. Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him be CEO
  9. Meta removes E2E encryption from Instagram DMs; experts warn first major domino
  10. Accel partner says AI bubble tendencies forming, fewer winners ahead
  11. OpenAI targets 8,000 employees by end of 2026 to counter Anthropic
  12. Goodwin advises Octane AI on Moltbook acquisition by Meta
  13. US committee demands Big Tech share private comms with EU officials
  14. Mamba-3
  15. Meta commits up to $27B to Nebius in AI infrastructure deal
  16. Quantinuum uses AI agents to discover new quantum optimization algorithms
  17. Handle Closes $6M Funding Round to Expand AI Agent Platform for Enterprise Operations
  18. Meta Plans Layoffs Affecting Up to 20 Percent of Workforce
  19. A "diff" tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models
  20. Sequoia partner and ex-Meta CRO raising $1B+ to build AI-powered holding company
  21. Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Viral AI Agent Social Network
  22. Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
  23. Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this 'Stargate Norway' startup hits $14.6B valuation
  24. OpenAI hardware exec Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
  25. President Trump Secures Historic Commitment to Keep Electricity Costs Down Amid Data Center Boom
February 2026 13 events
  1. OpenAI hires ex-Meta/AI researcher Ruoming Pang in talent war
  2. NASA rolls back Artemis II SLS rocket to Vehicle Assembly Building for helium flow repairs
  3. In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried
  4. CES 2026 highlights industrial Physical AI and robotics as mainstream business reality
  5. Microsoft's new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with 'endless AI slop'
  6. Taalas raises $169M for model-specific AI chips
  7. Meta scoops up more of Nvidia's AI chip output
  8. Meta signs multigenerational AI infrastructure pact with Nvidia
  9. Meta to deploy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs plus Grace CPUs for hyperscale AI data centers
  10. SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers
  11. [News] US Reportedly Mulls Tariff Exemptions for Amazon, Google, Microsoft on TSMC-Made Chips
  12. NASA and partners conduct Crew-12 Flight Readiness Review
Show 1 earlier events
  1. Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics
January 2026 2 events
  1. Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
  2. The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected