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Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

TrendForce: data centers will use 70% of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/memory-ram-sho

Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/857400/ford-ai-as…

Ford’s AI voice assistant is coming later this year, L3 driving in 2028
Ford announced an AI voice assistant will be coming to its cars in 2027, followed by Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

AI-generated paper? Advancements in visual prosthetics: The Visionary Bionic Model (PDF) https://www.ijraset.com/best-journal/advancements-in-visual-prosthetics-the-visionary-bionic-model Lots of rambling, references from 2027 and 2028,…

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

Big Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://

Big Tech blocked California data center legislation, leaving only a study requirement
Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the issue by 2027.

PJM trims summer 2027 peak demand forecast to ~160 GW from ~164 GW because some projects, including data centers, lack firm service or construction commitments (Naureen S Malik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai…

A profile of ASML, Europe's most valuable company, as it prepares for a transition to High NA EUV, with high-volume manufacturing expected in 2027 and 2028 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-1…

Qualcomm unveils two AI chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, based on its Hexagon NPUs, and says Humain is the first customer (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/qualcomm-ai200-ai250-ai-chips-nvidia-amd.html

Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%
The AI200, expected in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, both can come in a system that fills up a full, liquid-cooled server rack, Qualcomm said.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more (@bg2pod)
https://x.com/bg2pod/status/1984403048148713609

Bg2 Pod (@BG2Pod) on X
BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap -- (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft’s Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its Impact (05:46) Health, AI Security, and Resilience (07:50) Models, Exclusivity, and

Microsoft plans to invest CA$7.5B in Canada over two years to build AI infrastructure, coming online in 2026, taking its investment to CA$19B from 2023 to 2027 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-inv…

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2025/google-wants-…

Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
The tech giant released a paper Tuesday outlining plans to launch its AI chips into low-earth orbit, allowing them to run off solar power.

AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-unveils-new-chips-ces-event-las-vegas-2026-01-06/

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…