Новости за 09.04.2026

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 new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites, and is designed specifically for […]

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 Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says […]

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 infrastructure for C4 and N4 instances, while the two companies are expanding their joint development of custom Infrastructure Processing Units designed to […]

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 year-on-year. If sold on the open market like Nvidia, Jassy says, the business would be worth roughly $50 billion a […]

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 on the role at a moment when Oracle is committing $50 billion in capital expenditure for its current […]

Hospitality has long been defined by human interaction, but the systems that support those interactions have undergone continuous change. Arran Campolucci-Bordi, owner of Casa Italia, established 50 years ago in Liverpool, UK, frames this evolution through lived experience, tracing a path from handwritten reservation books to digital booking systems and now toward AI-driven operations. In […]

Coinspaid, Europe’s one of the largest blockchain payment infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with The Residency, a global community for early-stage founders and innovators. The collaboration will provide Residency startups with exclusive access to Coinspaid’s industry-leading stablecoin infrastructure solutions on preferential terms. The Residency has become known for cultivating ambitious founders in an environment […]

Mar‍c‍eu ‍Martins ‍⁠‌⁠has ‍sp‍ent ‍⁠25 ​years working in ‍par‍ts ⁠of technology ‌⁠​where ‍failure ‍​is ​not ‍abstract. In ​the ​systems ‌⁠he designs, a ⁠1% ‍error ‍is ‌not ‍a ‌minor ⁠‍defect ​‍or ​an ⁠acceptable edge ​‍case. It ‌represents ‍‌⁠systemic ​⁠exposure. Across global ‍supply chains, semic‍onduc‍tor logistics, and telecommunications infrastructure, even ​sma‍ll ​‌inconsistencies can ‍propagate across interconnected systems. […]

In short: Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Google Brain’s compute resources with DeepMind’s research culture and returning to what he called a “startup or entrepreneurial” way of working. He also […]

In short: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move strips away a C-suite title in exchange for technical proximity to the frontier, and lands […]

In short: On the day that 25% US tariffs on South Korean imports took effect, Kia held its 2026 CEO Investor Day in Seoul and presented a plan built for a changed world: a quietly reduced EV sales target for 2030, a major expansion of its hybrid range, the first confirmation of a North American electric […]

In short: Three YouTube content creators, specifically the company behind H3H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging that Amazon bypassed YouTube’s technical protections using virtual machines and rotating IP addresses to scrape their videos without consent, feeding the footage into training datasets for […]

In short: BILL has expanded its Supplier Payments Plus product to let large enterprise suppliers accept card and ACH payments from any SMB customer, including those with no BILL account, converting paper checks into digital transactions automatically and depositing card payments directly into supplier accounts. The company says the changes can shorten collection times by up […]

Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed. Canva will preview what it calls the biggest transformation in its history at Canva Create on 16 April. Canva has acquired two companies simultaneously: Simtheory, an agentic AI collaboration platform, and Ortto, […]