Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition…Open AI’s gigawatt arms race is underway in Abilene, Texas…Nscale announces record-breaking $1.1 billion Series B. .. OpenAI and Databricks strike AI agent deal…Trump administration will provide Elon Musk’s xAI to federal agencies.

Sam Altman stood outside Building 2 at OpenAI, Oracle , and SoftBank’s flagship Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas. He — along with the cluster of journalists peppering him with questions — looked small against the backdrop of the sprawling 800-acre site, swarming with thousands of construction workers and dotted with spools of fiber cable, steel beams, water pipes, and heavy machinery.

As I reported on Tuesday, we were there for a media event to tout the progress of their high-pr

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