The AI cloud specialist aims to reach its power target by year-end even as regulators and grid operators warn the current build rate is unsustainable without urgent infrastructure reforms.
Month: June 2026
Microsoft Adds Over 4 Gigawatts of New AI Data Center Capacity in Past 18 Months
The company’s aggressive infrastructure expansion has made it one of the world’s largest operators of AI computing facilities and is placing significant stress on regional power grids.
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Pro Remains in Limited Enterprise Preview Despite CEO’s Google I/O Commitment
Sundar Pichai had committed to a June general availability window at I/O in May but Gemini 3.5 Pro has not yet shipped to the public API or to Google AI Studio.
FERC Issues Show-Cause Orders to All Six US Regional Grid Operators Over AI Data Center Power Loads
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission used show-cause orders rather than standard rulemaking to demand grid interconnection reforms for AI computing infrastructure on a fast timeline.
White House Issues Executive Order on Advanced AI Innovation and Security
The Trump administration’s directive prioritised AI innovation over regulation while directing agencies to enforce existing laws against criminal use of AI tools.
GLM-5.2 from Zhipu AI Beats GPT-5.5 on Coding Benchmarks and Is Available via Z.ai API
The open-weights Chinese model achieved coding performance that was proprietary-only six months ago available via Z.ai at $4.40 per million output tokens or through Cloudflare.
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Remain Offline on Day 10 of US Export Control Directive
Anthropic’s flagship models remained unavailable via API with the June 22 free-trial deadline now passed leaving paid subscribers without access to the models they are paying for.
China Announces $295 Billion Five-Year AI Infrastructure Investment Plan to Challenge US Dominance
Beijing’s state-directed AI spending plan at approximately $59 billion per year represents one of the largest government technology investment programmes in history.
ChatGPT Market Share Falls Below 50% for First Time as Gemini and Claude Gain Ground
Sensor Tower’s 2026 State of AI Report showed ChatGPT at 46.4% by late May with Gemini at 27.7% and Claude at 10.3% in a fast-changing AI assistant market.
Noam Shazeer Co-Author of ‘Attention Is All You Need’ Leaves Google DeepMind to Join OpenAI
The researcher behind the foundational 2017 Transformer paper left Google 22 months after returning from Character.AI and was hired by Sam Altman as OpenAI’s Lead for Architecture Research.