The Loop · Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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The queue exceeded the grid — Texas froze data-centre approvals on August 3 after ERCOT's interconnection pipeline hit 474 gigawatts, 5.2× the record peak
On August 3, Governor Greg Abbott ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project in the interconnection queue before any new one connects. The queue is 474 GW. Ninety per cent of it is data centres. Texas peak demand is 91.
Aug 5, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 5, 2026
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The Palantir playbook — three days apart, AWS and Microsoft stood up billion-dollar forward-deployed-engineering units, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in the trade Palantir has been running since 2003
On June 30 AWS launched a $1B Forward Deployed Engineering unit. Seventy-two hours later Microsoft unveiled Frontier Company — $2.5B, 6,000 engineers. Four of the biggest names in AI have now stood up the same business in nine weeks, close to $9B between them.
Jul 11, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 11, 2026
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The investor pulled the lever — Amazon's Andy Jassy phoned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday about a Fable 5 jailbreak, and twenty-eight hours later Anthropic's largest backer had switched off Anthropic's flagship product
WSJ reported June 13 that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised the Fable 5 jailbreak with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday June 11. The Commerce directive landed Friday. Amazon has put $13 billion into Anthropic and plans up to $20 billion more.
Jun 16, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jun 16, 2026
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Twenty-four hours — OpenAI's models hit AWS Bedrock the day after Microsoft's exclusivity ended
On April 27 Microsoft and OpenAI rewrote a contract that had quietly survived since 2019. On April 28 OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Managed Agents were live on AWS Bedrock. The pacing tells you everything.
Apr 29, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Apr 29, 2026
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Anthropic and Amazon, Round Three — $5 billion in, $100 billion out
Amazon wrote Anthropic a $5 billion cheque. Anthropic wrote Amazon a $100 billion promise. What's in between is five gigawatts, a million Trainium chips, and the clearest picture yet of how frontier-AI infrastructure gets paid for.
Apr 23, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Apr 23, 2026