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Ukrainian drones struck data center infrastructure belonging to Yandex, often described as “Russia’s Google.” According to Ars Technica, one of the damaged facilities houses supercomputers used to train Yandex’s AI model.
AI compute is increasingly treated as strategic infrastructure, on a par with energy and telecommunications. An attack on a training facility shows that large data centers have become potential military targets — a factor that now weighs on where and how AI infrastructure is built and protected.
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Sequoia and DCVC participating. Its model, Jev, launched on September 15 and does not generate text: it outputs calibrated probabilities — “decisions” — for automation tasks. The company says about a third of Fortune 500 companies already use it.
Amazon says it will no longer use non-disclosure agreements when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move by Microsoft earlier this year, according to TechCrunch. The secrecy around such deals has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure.