Sources said NScale will supply computing capacity from a data center in West Virginia and plans to spend $71 billion to develop the project.

Market sources report Putin plans to escalate the situation in Ukraine and believes negotiations have produced no results.

Google Cloud has added a cost-control pricing option for GEMINI Enterprise, introducing pay-as-you-go billing with no fixed subscription and user-set monthly spend caps that pause AI agents when budgets are exhausted. Committed-use discounts run 10–20% and scheduling tasks in non-peak periods can cut costs by up to 50%. Google (GOOG.O) says the measures aim to lower the cost barrier for enterprise AI trials and expand the enterprise AI market; it will continue frontier AI R&D and compete with OpenAI and ANTHROPIC.