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British AI infrastructure company Nscale is making a serious push toward a U.S. IPO, securing three point three six billion dollars in convertible financing from investors including Nvidia and Third Point. The capital is earmarked for a major data center buildout, signaling that the race to own AI compute is far from over.
Meanwhile, the AI model wars heated up fast this week. Anthropic dropped Opus five point five, and OpenAI followed with GPT-six updates just ninety minutes later. But neither company grabbed the most attention. That went to Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT in early user adoption, a quiet but significant shift in who's actually winning the consumer AI race.
And Meta made another kind of infrastructure bet this week, announcing Petal, a subsea cable stretching roughly seven thousand kilometers across the Atlantic between the United States and France. Carrying a full petabit of data every second, it's projected to enter service in twenty twenty nine and would run three point three million times faster than the average American home connection.
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