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July 4, 2026: The AI infrastructure race intensifies as Together AI's $800M raise (backed by Aramco Ventures) signals Gulf capital flowing directly into the AI compute supply chain. Meanwhile, two critical Microsoft vulnerabilities — SharePoint RCE and the BlueHammer Defender exploit — are both under active attack, with ransomware gangs weaponizing the security tools meant to stop them. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 pushes frontier model economics to $2/MTok, making production AI agents viable. The EU AI Act's August 2 enforcement deadline looms for any AI product touching European markets. In MENA, Zain's $1.5B Syria license and Qatar's satellite pact with Turkey mark the largest connectivity infrastructure investments the region has seen this year.

Together AI hits $8.3B valuation, SharePoint zero-day under active attack, and EU AI Act enforcement looms


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Together AI Raises $800M Series C at $8.3B Valuation

AI neocloud Together AI closed an $800M Series C led by Aramco Ventures with participation from Nvidia and Vista Equity Partners, reaching an $8.3B post-money valuation. The funding will expand its GPU inference infrastructure and open-source AI platform.

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