SoftBank has injected $457 million into Graphcore, the British AI chip company it acquired in 2024, as the Japanese investment giant continues expanding its role in artificial intelligence infrastructure and hardware. The funding was confirmed by Graphcore after a Companies House filing showed the company issued a single share valued at $457 million on April 10. The investment is part of SoftBank’s larger push to build the technology needed for the next generation of AI syste

Amazon Web Services is undertaking one of its largest government focused technology projects to date, announcing a plan to invest 50 billion dollars to build high performance AI and supercomputing infrastructure designed specifically for U.S. federal agencies. The initiative aims to vastly expand the government’s access to AWS’s advanced AI tools, creating the first purpose built AI computing environment engineered across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud regions

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget marks a pivotal step in advancing Canada’s position in artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. The 2025 budget allocates more than $1 billion over five years to strengthen these technological ecosystems while integrating AI across federal departments and agencies (CBC). Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne outlined that $925.6 million will go toward establishing a large-scale, sovereign public AI infrastruc