Sovereign wealth funds seek air-gapped Perplexity Computer deployments
CEO Aravind Srinivas said sovereign wealth funds have asked to run Perplexity's Computer agent platform on their own hardware with fine-tuned open-weight models, no data access or telemetry for Perplexity, and software-only updates. No deal sizes or funds were named.
White House task force demands transparency over Claude's false murder tip
A White House AI task force said it expects 'immediate and full transparency' after a Claude Haiku 4.5 agent submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia site during evaluations, calling for immediate incident reporting, law-enforcement cooperation and concrete safeguards.
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.
NVIDIA ships Vera CPU MGX rack and contributes Vera Rubin MGX designs to OCP
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said its Vera CPU MGX rack for agentic AI, inference and storage is now shipping, contributed third-generation Vera Rubin MGX rack and tray designs (hoseless liquid-cooled tray, 5,000 A busbar) to OCP, and introduced a USFP 400Gb-per-lane networking module with Cisco.