Uday Ruddarraju to lead OpenAI compute and Stargate; Sachin Katti steps back
OpenAI named Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI and most recently its CTO of Compute, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, including Stargate. He replaces Sachin Katti, who will stay on as an adviser. OpenAI now projects about $750B of compute spending through 2030, up from roughly $600B.
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore government
Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office, in Singapore, and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The MOU covers AI safety, security and evaluation, adoption research, and responsible public- and private-sector adoption. Anthropic says more than 1,500 GovTech Singapore staff use Claude Code.
Workday uses TypeSafe AI's Jev model to power Sana
At Workday Rising 2026, Workday said Jev, a model from TypeSafe AI, lets its new Sana home experience generate forms, calendars and approval cards on demand.
Data and AI services firm Straive joined the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner, pairing OpenAI models with its data-readiness, deployment and governance services and its LLM Foundry platform (sponsored press release).
NVIDIA and Cisco introduce USFP pluggable optics form factorAnnounced
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA and Cisco jointly introduced USFP, a new pluggable optical module form factor for scaling AI factories. It offers 400 Gb/s per lane with 16 lanes (scalable to 32), about 4x the density of 200G-per-lane optics.
Chai Discovery and GSK expand collaboration after wet-lab validation
GSK will get access to Chai Discovery's protein folding and design models across its pipeline after GSK's own wet-lab tests found binders for every target tested, without target-specific training. Financial terms were not disclosed.
NTT Data reportedly in final talks to build Anthropic's first Japan data centerRumored
Nikkei reported NTT Data is in final talks to build an Osaka data center of up to 500 MW for Anthropic, with construction costs of up to ¥1 trillion (about $6.3B). Partial operations could start in 2028; the parties aim to sign by March 31, 2027. Not confirmed by the companies.
Meta adopts NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switches; Google Falcon comes to Spectrum-XAnnounced
NVIDIA said Meta will adopt Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches for its Vera Rubin deployments and that Google's Falcon transport is now supported on Spectrum-X. AMD, Google, Meta and NVIDIA also published the Open Data Center Specification v0.7, and Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA introduced an OCP Grid Resilience Specification.
TypeSafe AI's Ashby jobs board listed 10 open roles, all at its San Francisco office, including Members of Technical Staff, a Product Manager, a Founding Recruiter and a Founding Marketer. One listing is a tongue-in-cheek six-week contract role.
Meta's Muse agent reported at about 1.8 million daily users
The New York Times reported Meta's Muse AI agent has about 1.8 million daily users, in a story on Mark Zuckerberg's decision to rush out the agent. Figure from press report; not verified against the original article in this run.
Press coverage of the Series A described TypeSafe AI as having a team of just over 20 people. Approximate figure from secondary reporting, not a company disclosure.
TypeSafe AI said Jev surpassed one million users within days of launch and is used by about a third of Fortune 500 companies, which it declined to name. Company-reported figures, not independently verified.
An independent tracker reading Crusoe's applicant-tracking system counted 358 open postings. The figure may include multi-location listings and is marked illustrative.