The United States is preparing for an unprecedented expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure, but project delays, rising financing costs and growing local resistance are testing the economics behind the boom. As investors demand clearer returns, the next phase of AI investment may depend as much on financial discipline as technological ambition.
The next phase of the AI race will depend on more than chips, capital and electricity. As data centres expand into densely populated regions, technology companies must also persuade communities that the infrastructure powering the digital economy belongs where they want to build it.
AWS Cloud and AI Day Türkiye brought technology leaders, developers, businesses and cloud professionals together at Zorlu PSM in Istanbul, highlighting the growing role of artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and agentic AI in the next phase of digital transformation.
Anthropic says Claude now leads more than a quarter of the company’s artificial intelligence research and development work, offering a new measure of how quickly AI is becoming part of the process of building the next generation of AI systems.
OpenAI is exploring a new funding round that could value the company at up to $1.5 trillion, putting AI's extraordinary capital demands under a sharper spotlight.
The U.S. debate over AI regulation is intensifying as Washington, state governments and technology companies compete to shape the rules of the AI economy.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping venture capital, pushing investors toward deep technology, energy, robotics, defence, advanced manufacturing and other capital-intensive areas.