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Anthropic has signed a cloud-computing deal worth about $35 billion with Lambda, the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider, according to the Wall Street Journal, with Reuters carrying the report the same day. The WSJ reports that Nvidia holds the lease on the Texas data centre involved. Neither Anthropic nor Lambda has published the agreement on its own newsroom, and the WSJ account is attributed to a person familiar rather than to either company. Lambda separately closed a $926m senior secured term loan B facility on 27 August 2026 to fund GPU deployment for an investment-grade customer, which it did announce itself. This record is kept STRICTLY DISTINCT from the separate $35bn Anthropic CHIP FINANCING reported by Bloomberg on 9 June 2026, which concerned Google backstopping lease payments across five data centres - the identical headline figure makes the two easy to conflate and they are different events.

xAI made Grok 4.6 available on Microsoft Foundry.

xAI made Grok 4.6 available on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, extending distribution across a third major hyperscaler alongside AWS and Microsoft.

xAI made Grok 4.6 available through Amazon Bedrock.

xAI made Grok 4.6, its latest coding model, available inside GitHub Copilot.

Inception's Mercury diffusion large language model is now available on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, giving enterprise developers access to fast and high-quality generative AI.

xAI made Grok 4.5, its coding-focused model, available inside GitHub Copilot.

xAI released a Grok add-on for Google Workspace, working directly in Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Scale AI published an account of work with Mayo Clinic applying AI to clinical care, framed around "supporting clinicians, improving patient outcomes, and helping health systems operate more effectively." The post is a customer deployment disclosure rather than a new contract announcement; no contract value, start date or scope figures were disclosed.

Bloomberg reports that Nebius has agreed to sell $1 billion in AI cloud computing capacity to Reflection AI under a multi-year agreement.