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Two AI infrastructure launches from 8 October 2026: Goodfire's "inside-out" monitors, which read a model's internal signals to catch harmful agent sessions, reach Baseten customers (all performance figures are Goodfire's own), and Upscale AI unveils Token Fabric, a networking platform for AI data centres with general availability planned for early 2027.

Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar, that nuclear startup Atlas Atomics has raised about $400 million in a Series A at around a $1.9 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst with Andreessen Horowitz. The company has not confirmed it. Who Atlas is, what its own letter says, and what is not known.

Three big data-centre plans from 8 October 2026: Sesterce's planned "over €10 billion" AI campus at a former paper mill in Jämsä, Finland; a 7 trillion won, 360 MW memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Sejong, South Korea (reported); and ReNew's MOU with the government of Maharashtra for a proposed ₹70,000 crore, 750 MW green data-centre park (reported). All three are plans, not finished deals. Here is what each says and what it leaves open.

Samsung's third-quarter guidance points to about ₩107.4 trillion in operating profit on ₩195 trillion of sales, up from ₩12.17 trillion a year ago, with AI data-centre memory demand credited. AWS becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, with a board seat. What the numbers say and what they leave out.

CoreWeave plans 240 MW in Navi Mumbai, Bell Canada's Regina campus could reach 1.2 GW with its own gas plant, and Applied Digital reported $341.9 million in quarterly revenue alongside $6.4 billion of debt. Meanwhile the bond financing Meta's Louisiana data centre hit a record low, and Entergy's CEO let slip that the site will draw 4,500 MW. What each company confirmed, and what is reported.

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have filed a North Carolina settlement that makes big data centres pay upfront, sign 10–15 year contracts and accept some power cuts. Indiana approved Google paying the full cost of serving a 390 MW site, and a bipartisan Senate bill would make data centres pay for the grid upgrades they trigger. And gas equipment is being shipped straight to AI projects: a 380 MW Doosan turbine for SpaceXAI and 282 MW of Wärtsilä engines. What is agreed and what still needs approval.

AirTrunk is adding $1B to its 300MW+ TOK1 campus in Japan for liquid-cooled AI, backed by a green loan. In Finland, the regulator has told Google's subsidiary to stop groundwork at two data-centre sites until environmental reviews finish. What each confirms and what it shows about where AI infrastructure can be built.

Minerva Humanoids’ company release says it raised about $10 million in pre-seed funding led by General Catalyst to build Roger, a semi-autonomous VR-teleoperated humanoid aimed at hazardous energy and public-safety work, with paid pilots launching in the fall.

Black Hills Corp. says it signed definitive agreements through 2048 to serve a planned Google data centre in Cheyenne, Wyoming, investing $1.8bn in 564 MW of company-owned natural gas generation. Company-reported.

Google says a new power purchase agreement with Constellation will finance uprates at six US nuclear plants, adding 890 MW of firm clean capacity to PJM before end-2032. Figures are company-reported.