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Heavily Shorted Rumble Soars After Landing “Largest Customer Commitment To Date” In 0M AI Cloud Deal

Heavily Shorted Rumble Soars After Landing “Largest Customer Commitment To Date” In $270M AI Cloud Deal

Published by Jenni Sidey

Shares of the free-speech video platform and cloud-services company Rumble soared in premarket trading after it announced in an 8-K filing that it had signed a multi-year, $270 million deal with a third-party cloud customer for dedicated GPU cloud capacity powered by Nvidia Blackwell B300 systems. The deal, announced Thursday morning, is Rumble’s largest customer commitment to date and signals the video platform’s push deeper into AI infrastructure and cloud computing services. “Rumble entered into a multi-year, $270 million agreement with a third-party cloud customer, representing Rumble’s largest customer commitment to date,” the company wrote in the filing. The filing continued, “Under the agreement, the customer has committed to purchase dedicated GPU cloud capacity from Rumble powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B300 systems,” adding, “The agreement includes potential for greater value and extended length based on market success.” Rumble went public through a SPAC merger with CF Acquisition Corp. VI, a Cantor Fitzgerald–backed blank-check company. The deal closed in mid-September 2022, and the shares began trading on Nasdaq. Since then, shares have traded sideways, unable to …

EU unveils technological sovereignty package to accelerate AI, chips and cloud independence

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The European Commission has launched a sweeping new policy framework to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty. The EU is introducing legislation and strategic initiatives designed to reduce dependence on foreign technology providers and expand the continent’s capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, and open-source software. This package combines two major legislative proposals with broader digital and energy strategies. Central to the initiative are the proposed Chips Act 2.0 and Cloud and AI Development Act, alongside a new Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitalisation and AI in the energy sector. If adopted, the measures could significantly reshape Europe’s digital landscape by boosting domestic technology production, tripling data centre capacity, expanding AI deployment and creating new funding mechanisms to support strategic technology projects. The move marks one of the EU’s most ambitious efforts yet to achieve technological sovereignty and strengthen economic resilience. Ursula von der Leyen, Commission President, echoed the importance of the EU securing technological sovereignty and advancing domestic capabilities: “We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals …

Lovable signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

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Lovable and Google announced an expanded multi-year collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long been a Google Cloud user. Under the new agreement, it will be a much bigger one. While the companies did not disclose the dollar figure, a person with knowledge of the deal tells TechCrunch it involves a fivefold increase in Lovable’s footprint on Google Cloud, including AI usage. As part of the deal, this individual tells us, Lovable will gain expanded access to both Anthropic’s Claude — the AI model widely used for coding tasks — and Google’s own Gemini models. The Anthropic piece in particular is interesting. Google invested $10 billion in Anthropic in cash and compute credits in April, promising another $30 billion if Anthropic hits certain performance targets. It made that investment at a $350 billion valuation — just one month before Anthropic raised a staggering $65 billion round that valued the company at nearly $1 trillion. This deal stands to help Anthropic hit those targets, because Lovable is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups …

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs

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Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed to let software developers run large AI models on their desks instead of paying for cloud computing — a move that directly challenges the per-token pricing model that has defined the AI industry’s economics since ChatGPT launched three and a half years ago. The device, announced at Microsoft Build 2026, packs Nvidia’s new Blackwell-architecture RTX Spark processor and 128 gigabytes of unified memory into a small-form-factor chassis, delivering what Nvidia rates at one petaflop of AI compute. In practical terms, that means a developer can load, run and interact with AI models exceeding 120 billion parameters without sending a single API call to the cloud. “These class of devices, we think, will get to about 100 billion parameter model running,” Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s executive vice president of Windows and Devices, said during a press briefing ahead of the event. He emphasized that raw model size is only part of the equation: “The model size is one thing, but for the …

Euphoria Season 3 Finale Pays Tribute to Angus Cloud With Unseen Footage

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season three finale of Euphoria.] “Moments like these are rare. This season we lost Angus. Many of you loved him the way I did. He deserved more time, a longer, fuller life, ” Sam Levinson said while speaking about Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco and died in real life from an accidental overdose, at a screening of Euphoria season three Sunday night that The Hollywood Reporter attended. “But he was taken, like far too many people in this country, by fentanyl.” After the season three premiere of Euphoria opened with a tribute to Eric Dane, who played Nate’s father, Cal, and died in February after battling ALS, some fans wondered why Cloud wasn’t given a tribute as well. The answer is that, in the series, Fezco lived on. In a tearful post-show segment following the premiere, Levinson explained that “Angus didn’t make it in real life, so at least in the made-up world of Euphoria, he’s still alive.” It was revealed in the episode that Fez was …

I turned off cloud typing on my Android keyboard and gained back my privacy

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I often wonder what my phone knows about me. Contacts, location, and browsing history are all obvious. But only after checking my Gboard settings did I realize my keyboard had been sending data to Google the entire time I’ve used my Pixel. Not my actual words, exactly. But close enough to make me uncomfortable. Cloud typing features process keystrokes online to improve keyboard predictions. The catch is that your layout habits and custom vocabulary leave your device. Once I realized how much data was being sent to Google’s servers, I turned it off. Here’s what I found and how you can do the same. Related I tried an open-source keyboard to stop Google from learning my typing habits I gave up Gboard after learning what really happens to your typing data What cloud typing sends to Google (and why it matters) How Gboard’s usage statistics work Gboard, Google’s keyboard app and the default on Pixel phones, includes several great features, many that sync (copy data between devices via the internet) or share your data with …

I tried Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC on MacOS, Android, and iOS – here’s what it’s like

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Ed Bott/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The Windows 365 Cloud PC lets you use Windows 11 on any device – PC, Mac, iPad, or phone. It’s a subscription-based service, and the costs are still relatively high. The biggest benefit: no worries about repairing and replacing hardware. My newest PC is the thinnest and lightest I’ve ever had. It’s literally a pixel thick, it weighs absolutely nothing, and it’s powerful enough to get me through a full day’s work without ever needing a recharge. I am talking, of course, about my new Windows 365 Cloud PC. It’s a subscription-based service that Microsoft is currently offering for 20% off, and I’m halfway through my one-month trial. I’ve been running my Cloud PC on every device I can get my hands on, including multiple PCs, a MacBook, a five-year-old iPad, and even a Samsung phone. Here it is, running in a Google Chrome tab on a Windows PC. This Windows 365 Cloud PC is running in a tab in my Google …

Inside the rise of digital embassies – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Sharing the AI load As Europe wakes up to its dependence on private tech from the U.S. and China, some countries are weighing whether building a digital embassy is better than relying on a private cloud service. Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, who says the principality has become a trusted digital partner, at a technolgoy summit in Lisbon in November 2024. | Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images “When we speak about digital sovereignty, we don’t need to send them to the States or to Asia, we can do it in Europe,” said Bettel. “It’s not against someone, it’s just in favor of sovereign Europe.” The idea is also sparking the curiosity of countries that want to supercharge artificial intelligence development and data processing but don’t have the resources to do it in their own country. Earlier this month, the World Economic Forum launched a global framework for bilateral agreements to establish such digital embassies. The framework touches on things like access rights, data disclosures, jurisdiction, privacy laws, dispute resolution and the interoperability of infrastructure. As AI …

These cloud backup companies seemed bulletproof until they weren’t — here’s what happened

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You may have been sold the idea that your files are safe as long as they are in the cloud. This assurance is why most people rely on services like Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud to keep their most valuable data. Many assume other storage methods are more likely to fail. However, history has shown that the cloud is not permanent. Some of the biggest, seemingly infallible names collapsed. The shutdowns were often followed by traffic surges, stalled transfers, and failed downloads, with users scrambling to retrieve their data. The lessons are fresh in the minds of many, and these examples are a reminder that if your files only exist on someone else’s hardware, you don’t actually own them. Copy.com People trusted it because Barracuda owned it Screenshot by Alvin Wanjala — no attribution required This was one service few would have expected to disappear, especially since the company behind it was Barracuda Networks, a cybersecurity company with an established enterprise reputation. It ran a very successful referral program that rewarded several customers heavily for …

cloud condition pushes solar panels OVER 100%

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One Redditor got a big surprise this week, when they checked their rooftop solar app and saw something incredible – their 880 W PV system seemed to break physics by making more than 1,050 W of power! True to their username, Redditor Full_Analysis_3392 didn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that physics was broken and the Apollo Moon landings were faked. Instead, they started in on the problem scientifically, with a quick check of their original assumptions. “I have 2x 440w double sided panels on the roof of my XLWB Sprinter and suddenly I am making more power than I thought possible,” wrote Full_Analysis_3392, giving us some critical information needed to solve the mystery. “The panels are Jinko Tiger Neo 440W Dual Glass All Black N-Type Bifacial. Any one able to explain? Are they actually 440w per side?” Another Redditor, Adorable_Wolf_8387, responded quickly, writing, “Certain atmospheric conditions can make even more light hit an area on the ground than you’d experience from just direct sunlight.” Advertisement – scroll for more content Mister-at added, “+1. Happens after rain. Combined with …