AI09/24/2026@TechDesk
Aramco and Microsoft Sign an Industrial AI MoU in Riyadh
Riyadh, Riyadh governorate, Riyadh Region, 12643, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 02/10/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE226 days agoStated as firm by the signing photo Arab News^[3] carries, whose backdrop reads "MoU Signing Ceremony between Aramco and Microsoft, February 10, 2026, Riyadh"; aramco.com^[1] announced it two days later ("DHAHRAN|FEBRUARY 12, 2026").
A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.
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AI09/23/2026@TechDesk
Lux AI Supercomputer Arrives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Third Street, Oak Ridge, Roane County, Tennessee, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise…
Starts 06/17/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE99 days agoThe Lux page shows the photo 'The Lux supercomputing system arrives at ORNL^[1][3][4][6]' without a date; that photo's own OLCF page dates it: 'Lux supercomputing system on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The delivery marks the beginning of the system's installation and deployment.' No time given, so all day.
DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.
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Semiconductors09/24/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI's First AI Chip
3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United StatesBroadcom…
Starts 06/24/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE92 days agoThe release is dated "June 24, 2026" and says OpenAI and Broadcom^[1] "today unveiled" Jalapeño; Nasdaq's^[4] GlobeNewswire copy is stamped "Jun 24, 2026 9:00am EDT" (13:00 UTC).
OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, an inference accelerator it designed and Broadcom implemented, went from design to tape-out in nine months; Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas handed it to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
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AI09/20/2026@OddsDesk
The Top AI Model of 2026 Is Decided
Starts 12/31/2026 SCHEDULED 75% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysThe market is settled on the ranking as it stands on December 31, 2026 and expires that day at 15:00 UTC, so the date is fixed by the market’s own terms.^[1]
Kalshi
Kalshi
Kalshi settles its year-end ranking market on which lab holds the top AI model on December 31, 2026 — the exchange’s biggest AI book at 11.5M contracts. On 20 September 2026 Claude led at 71.5%, ahead of ChatGPT at 13.6%, Gemini at 8.9% and Grok at 4.1%.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Signs $3.7 Billion in Deals With French Companies in Paris
Saudi AramcoParis, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, France
Starts 08/24/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE31 days agoStated as firm, per aramco.com^[1]'s release dated "DHAHRAN|AUGUST 24, 2026": Aramco "today announced agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a potential combined value of more than $3.7 billion with French companies".
At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.
$3.7B
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Finance09/24/2026@TechDesk
Broadcom Launches $35B AI XPV Platform With Apollo and Blackstone
Broadcom…3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United States
Starts 06/09/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE107 days agoThe release is dated "June 9, 2026" and says Broadcom^[1] "today announced" the platform, which "launches today"; PR Newswire^[4] stamps it "Jun 09, 2026, 09:00 ET" and Apollo's^[5] IR copy "June 09, 2026 9:00am EDT".
A financing platform for more than 20 GW of Broadcom XPU compute for frontier AI labs through 2028, opening with a $35 billion tranche led by Apollo with Blackstone to fund Anthropic's 1 GW-plus expansion at Fluidstack sites.
$35B
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Semiconductors09/24/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI and Broadcom Agree to Deploy 10 GW of Custom AI Accelerators
Broadcom…3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United States
Starts 10/13/2025 1:00PMCONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE346 days agoThe release is dated "Oct. 13, 2025" and says OpenAI and Broadcom^[1] "today announced" the collaboration; GlobeNewswire's^[3] copy is stamped 2025-10-13T13:00:00Z (9:00 a.m. ET), and OpenAI's podcast announcing it went up the same minute.
OpenAI will design its own AI accelerators and Broadcom will develop and deploy them in racks built on Broadcom Ethernet, 10 gigawatts in all, starting in the second half of 2026 and finishing by the end of 2029.
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Broadcom…Venetian Expo, Sands Avenue, Paradise, Nevada 89109, United States
08/31/2026 - 09/03/2026CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE24 days agoBroadcom's^[1][3][4][6] 17 August release says Explore 2026 is "taking place August 31-September 3 at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas", and VMware's^[5] Day 1 recap (31 August) says "Day 1 of VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas is officially in full swing" at the Venetian.
Broadcom's VMware conference ran 31 August to 3 September at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center, where it launched VMware Private AI Cloud and VMware AI Factory and said Explore moves to Resorts World in May 2027.
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Conference09/23/2026@TechDesk
AWS re:Invent 2026 Opens in Las Vegas
Amazon…The Venetian Las Vegas, 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Paradise, NV 89109, United States
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Electronics09/14/2026@GameDesk
Apple Mac mini (M6 or M5 Pro)
Cupertino, California, USAApple…
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Compact desktop with new Apple silicon promising up to 4x faster AI performance.
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Energy09/23/2026@TechDesk
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch the AI Energy Management Alliance
NVIDIA…NVIDIA Endeavor, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, United States
Starts 09/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE8 days agoNVIDIA's^[1][5] blog post is published 2026-09-16T13:00:33Z and says "Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance"; MT Newswires via Yahoo^[2] Finance also reports the launch as Wednesday.
A coalition for AI data centers that throttle their grid draw when the power system is stressed, in exchange for faster and larger grid connections; its backers say flexibility could unlock 100 GW on the existing US grid.
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Conference09/23/2026@TechDesk
HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026
Venetian Expo, Sands Avenue, Paradise, Nevada 89109, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise…
06/15/2026 - 06/18/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE101 days agoThe conference has happened. HPE's^[1][4] on-demand page carries no dates, so the dates come from NVIDIA's^[2] event page for it: "Venetian Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada June 15–18, 2026". HPE's own releases are datelined "LAS VEGAS – HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026 – June 16, 2026" (and June 15 for the quantum release), and HPE's lasvegas.html page still marks the event up as starting June 15, 2026 though its text has moved on to "June 21-24, 2027". All day, 15 June to the exclusive 00:00Z after 18 June.
HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.
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Stated as firm, per newsroom.ibm.com^[1][3]: "May 5, 2026 - Aramco (2222.SE) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced their intended collaboration ... The announcement was made at THINK Boston".

Start: May 5, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Aramco and IBM Unveil an Industrial AI Collaboration at Think 2026

Announced on stage at IBM's Think 2026 in Boston, the planned collaboration would pair IBM's AI, hybrid-cloud and consulting capabilities with Aramco's operations and data on agentic AI, automation and materials science, extending a partnership dating to 1947.

On 5 May 2026, at IBM's Think conference in Boston, Aramco and IBM announced an intended collaboration on artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, materials science and other agreed industrial domains^[1][2].
It was announced in the presence of IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna and Aramco SVP of Digital & Information Technology Sami Al Ajmi, who appeared together on the Think stage^[1].
The two plan to explore AI, hybrid cloud and other technologies in industrial and energy systems, including AI for mission-critical environments, combining IBM's platforms, consulting and research with Aramco's operations and data^[1][2].
Al Ajmi said the work would test how industrial AI can improve operational excellence and resilience, particularly in reliability and safety^[1].
Aramco and IBM have worked together since 1947; the collaboration is subject to definitive agreements^[1].
Think 2026 ran from 4 to 7 May in Boston^[3].

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newsroom.ibm.com/2026-05-05-ibm-and-aramco-explore-collaboration-to-accelerate-ai-and-innovation-across-saudi-arabia
newsroom.ibm.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts May 5, 2026 ✓· 46% of score
Stated as firm, per newsroom.ibm.com^[3]: "May 5, 2026 - Aramco (2222.SE) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced their intended collaboration ... The announcement was made at THINK Boston".
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IBM, Aramco explore AI collaboration in Saudi Arabia (TradeArabia)
tradearabia.com· Published May 6, 2026· 27% of score
Report of the collaboration: "The announcement was made at THINK Boston, IBM's^[1][3] event, in the presence of Arvind Krishna ... Sami Al Ajmi"; covers AI, hybrid cloud and mission-critical industrial use cases.
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Think 2026 newsroom (IBM)
newsroom.ibm.com· Published May 5, 2026· 27% of score
IBM's^[1] Think 2026 news page: "Think 2026, 4 - 7 May in Boston, MA", listing the Aramco announcement among the event's 5 May releases.

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AI09/24/2026@TechDesk
Aramco and Microsoft Sign an Industrial AI MoU in Riyadh
Riyadh, Riyadh governorate, Riyadh Region, 12643, Saudi ArabiaSaudi Aramco
Starts 02/10/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE226 days agoStated as firm by the signing photo Arab News^[3] carries, whose backdrop reads "MoU Signing Ceremony between Aramco and Microsoft, February 10, 2026, Riyadh"; aramco.com^[1] announced it two days later ("DHAHRAN|FEBRUARY 12, 2026").
A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.
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AI09/23/2026@TechDesk
Lux AI Supercomputer Arrives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Third Street, Oak Ridge, Roane County, Tennessee, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise…
Starts 06/17/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE99 days agoThe Lux page shows the photo 'The Lux supercomputing system arrives at ORNL^[1][3][4][6]' without a date; that photo's own OLCF page dates it: 'Lux supercomputing system on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The delivery marks the beginning of the system's installation and deployment.' No time given, so all day.
DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.
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Semiconductors09/24/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI's First AI Chip
3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United StatesBroadcom…
Starts 06/24/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE92 days agoThe release is dated "June 24, 2026" and says OpenAI and Broadcom^[1] "today unveiled" Jalapeño; Nasdaq's^[4] GlobeNewswire copy is stamped "Jun 24, 2026 9:00am EDT" (13:00 UTC).
OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, an inference accelerator it designed and Broadcom implemented, went from design to tape-out in nine months; Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas handed it to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
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AI09/20/2026@OddsDesk
The Top AI Model of 2026 Is Decided
Starts 12/31/2026 SCHEDULED 75% CONFIDENCEin 98 daysThe market is settled on the ranking as it stands on December 31, 2026 and expires that day at 15:00 UTC, so the date is fixed by the market’s own terms.^[1]
Kalshi
Kalshi
Kalshi settles its year-end ranking market on which lab holds the top AI model on December 31, 2026 — the exchange’s biggest AI book at 11.5M contracts. On 20 September 2026 Claude led at 71.5%, ahead of ChatGPT at 13.6%, Gemini at 8.9% and Grok at 4.1%.
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Energy09/24/2026@EnergyDesk
Aramco Signs $3.7 Billion in Deals With French Companies in Paris
Saudi AramcoParis, Ile-de-France, Metropolitan France, France
Starts 08/24/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE31 days agoStated as firm, per aramco.com^[1]'s release dated "DHAHRAN|AUGUST 24, 2026": Aramco "today announced agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a potential combined value of more than $3.7 billion with French companies".
At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.
$3.7B
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Finance09/24/2026@TechDesk
Broadcom Launches $35B AI XPV Platform With Apollo and Blackstone
Broadcom…3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United States
Starts 06/09/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE107 days agoThe release is dated "June 9, 2026" and says Broadcom^[1] "today announced" the platform, which "launches today"; PR Newswire^[4] stamps it "Jun 09, 2026, 09:00 ET" and Apollo's^[5] IR copy "June 09, 2026 9:00am EDT".
A financing platform for more than 20 GW of Broadcom XPU compute for frontier AI labs through 2028, opening with a $35 billion tranche led by Apollo with Blackstone to fund Anthropic's 1 GW-plus expansion at Fluidstack sites.
$35B
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Semiconductors09/24/2026@TechDesk
OpenAI and Broadcom Agree to Deploy 10 GW of Custom AI Accelerators
Broadcom…3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, United States
Starts 10/13/2025 1:00PMCONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE346 days agoThe release is dated "Oct. 13, 2025" and says OpenAI and Broadcom^[1] "today announced" the collaboration; GlobeNewswire's^[3] copy is stamped 2025-10-13T13:00:00Z (9:00 a.m. ET), and OpenAI's podcast announcing it went up the same minute.
OpenAI will design its own AI accelerators and Broadcom will develop and deploy them in racks built on Broadcom Ethernet, 10 gigawatts in all, starting in the second half of 2026 and finishing by the end of 2029.
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Conference09/24/2026@TechDesk
VMware Explore 2026 Las Vegas
Broadcom…Venetian Expo, Sands Avenue, Paradise, Nevada 89109, United States
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Broadcom's VMware conference ran 31 August to 3 September at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center, where it launched VMware Private AI Cloud and VMware AI Factory and said Explore moves to Resorts World in May 2027.
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Conference09/23/2026@TechDesk
AWS re:Invent 2026 Opens in Las Vegas
Amazon…The Venetian Las Vegas, 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Paradise, NV 89109, United States
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Electronics09/14/2026@GameDesk
Apple Mac mini (M6 or M5 Pro)
Cupertino, California, USAApple…
Starts 09/22/2026CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE2 days agoAvailability date from Apple's^[1][2][3] own newsroom announcement (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/): pre-orders from August 25, 2026, and it 'will begin arriving to customers, and in Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Resellers, starting September 22'. September 22, 2026 is the shipping/on-sale day.
Compact desktop with new Apple silicon promising up to 4x faster AI performance.
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Energy09/23/2026@TechDesk
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch the AI Energy Management Alliance
NVIDIA…NVIDIA Endeavor, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, United States
Starts 09/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE8 days agoNVIDIA's^[1][5] blog post is published 2026-09-16T13:00:33Z and says "Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance"; MT Newswires via Yahoo^[2] Finance also reports the launch as Wednesday.
A coalition for AI data centers that throttle their grid draw when the power system is stressed, in exchange for faster and larger grid connections; its backers say flexibility could unlock 100 GW on the existing US grid.
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Conference09/23/2026@TechDesk
HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026
Venetian Expo, Sands Avenue, Paradise, Nevada 89109, United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise…
06/15/2026 - 06/18/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE101 days agoThe conference has happened. HPE's^[1][4] on-demand page carries no dates, so the dates come from NVIDIA's^[2] event page for it: "Venetian Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada June 15–18, 2026". HPE's own releases are datelined "LAS VEGAS – HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026 – June 16, 2026" (and June 15 for the quantum release), and HPE's lasvegas.html page still marks the event up as starting June 15, 2026 though its text has moved on to "June 21-24, 2027". All day, 15 June to the exclusive 00:00Z after 18 June.
HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.
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