Last week, Meta Platforms announced it is increasing its investment in its El Paso data center from $1.5 billion to more than $10 billion. The massive expansion aims to transform the site into a 1-gigawatt powerhouse, making it one of the largest AI-optimized facilities in the world. According to the report, the facility will now support over 4,000 construction jobs at its peak and roughly 300 permanent operational roles when it comes online in 2028. However, the sixfold incr

Microsoft is reportedly considering legal action against its long-term partner OpenAI and rival Amazon following the announcement of a massive $50 billion cloud and investment agreement. The dispute, first reported by the Financial Times on March 18, 2026, centers on whether the new deal violates Microsoft's exclusive rights to host OpenAI’s most advanced models on its Azure platform. The tension stems from the launch of OpenAI Frontier, a new enterprise platform designed to

Shares of Figma fell as much as 12% over a two-day trading period this week following a major product reveal from Google Labs. The search giant has officially pivoted its experimental design tool, Stitch, into an AI-native "vibe design" platform, a move investors fear could disrupt the professional UI/UX market. "Vibe design" represents a shift away from traditional manual layout work. Instead of starting with a blank canvas and wireframes, users describe a project's "intent,

NVIDIA has announced a strategic $2 billion investment in Nebius Group, an Amsterdam-based AI cloud provider, marking one of the largest infrastructure partnerships of 2026. The deal, structured as a private placement of pre-funded warrants, grants NVIDIA a roughly 8.3% stake in the company and ties the two firms together in a massive multi-year expansion of global computing power. The partnership is centered on the deployment of more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially launched Amazon Connect Health in a perfectly timed move ahead of the upcoming HIMSS healthcare conference. This is the company's first industry-specific "agentic" platform, designed to act as a digital teammate that can autonomously execute complex clinical and administrative tasks that typically "drown" healthcare workers in paperwork. The suite is already being deployed by major providers including UC San Diego Health, One Me