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  1. Oracle boosted its revenue backlog total by $30 billion during the February quarter.
  2. Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.
  3. Moltbook was built for OpenClaw agents, and OpenClaw's founder, Peter Steinberger, was hired by OpenAI.
  4. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, accusing the startup of concealing its AI shopping agents.
  5. Google is rolling out a feature that lets civilian and military personnel build custom AI agents for unclassified work on the Pentagon's enterprise AI portal.
  6. As part of the partnership, Thinking Machines Lab has also agreed to deploy at least one gigawatt of Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems.
  7. Amazon said AI-assisted production changes were partly to blame for recent infrastructure issues.
  8. The announcement comes on the back of a bumper start to the week for European AI companies.
  9. A prolonged U.S.-Israel war against Iran could lead to shortages of key chipmaking materials and higher energy costs which could hurt semiconductor demand.
  10. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.