Aether plans two AI data-centre 'gigafactories' in Strasbourg

TechCrunch AI 18 Jul 2026

Index Ventures co-founder says AI wealth must be redistributed

Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, predicts that the historic wealth generated by AI in Silicon Valley will eventually need to be redistributed. He says this transfer of wealth could occur either voluntarily or through external pressures.

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TechCrunch AI 18 Jul 2026

Vertu’s $6,880 AI agent and foldable phone: real-world review

TechCrunch tested Vertu’s luxury foldable and its built‑in AI agent, assessing daily use across workflows, battery life, and security. The review reports practical strengths and limitations rather than dramatic breakthroughs.

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TechCrunch AI 18 Jul 2026

Agility Robotics opens Digit training center in Fremont

Agility Robotics is opening a new training center for its bipedal Digit robots in Fremont, California. The facility positions the company geographically near Tesla and aims to scale operator training and field testing for its humanoid platform.

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Data Center Dynamics 18 Jul 2026

Anthropic may lease Meta compute in potential $10bn deal

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to lease compute capacity from Meta in a deal that could be worth about $10 billion. The move would see Meta expand its role toward becoming a cloud provider for large AI workloads, according to reports.

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TechCrunch AI 17 Jul 2026

Patreon partners with Cloudflare to block AI scraping bots

Patreon is moving beyond robots.txt and working with Cloudflare to actively block bots that scrape creators’ content for AI training. The change aims to prevent unauthorized use of Patreon-hosted materials by machine-learning models.

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Data Center Dynamics 17 Jul 2026

Sharon AI inks $1.32bn five-year cloud services deal with unnamed lab

Sharon AI has signed a five-year cloud computing services agreement worth $1.32 billion with an unnamed AI laboratory, according to Data Center Dynamics. Financial terms and technical details beyond duration and value were not disclosed in the excerpt.

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Data Center Dynamics 17 Jul 2026

Power planning for AI infrastructure with Ramboll's Michael Bergstrom

Ramboll’s Michael Bergstrom discusses the evolving challenges of planning, designing, and integrating power systems for AI infrastructure in a DCD interview. He highlights how AI workloads change demand profiles and require more holistic utility and site-level coordination.

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Data Center Dynamics 17 Jul 2026

ABB guidance on OCP disaggregated power rack grounding and protection

ABB outlines grounding, protection, and compliance considerations for OCP Sidecar disaggregated 800V power racks. The guidance targets safe, scalable AI power distribution in data center environments.

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