Riot Platforms Inc (RIOT) News & EventsRIOTRiot Platforms Inc

Anthropic Signs $9.1B Data Center Deal with Riot

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.COMPUTING DEAL:Anthropic has signed a $9.1B, 191MW data-center capacity deal with Riot Platformsthrough June 2048, with an extension option that could raise total contract value to $16.1B, Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary, citing people familiar with the matter. Riot disclosed on Monday that it had secured a 20-year deal to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a "leading frontier AI" company, and sources say that company is Anthropic.MULTI-YEAR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP:Quantinuumand Oracleannounced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Under the partnership, OCI customers will be able to directly access Quantinuum's Helios, the most accurate commercial quantum computer in the world, through OCI's quantum service, alongside OCI's high-performance computing and GPU infrastructure. Together, Quantinuum and Oracle plan to explore how hybrid quantum-AI infrastructure could address some of the most computationally intensive challenges facing enterprises and broaden access for universities and research institutions advancing scientific discovery and education. The partnership reflects a shared vision that the future of enterprise computing will be built on the convergence of AI, classical supercomputing, and quantum computing. Many complex problems across materials discovery, drug development, logistics, energy, and financial modeling already push the limits of today's computing architectures.DAYBREAK:OpenAIthat, "Earlier this year, OpenAI frontier models and Codex became generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to bring advanced AI into production. Today, we're sharing the next step in our work with AWS: making Daybreak capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock. With Daybreak Access, defenders can use frontier cyber models within their existing AWS environments. Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red access levels are both available in AWS: Daybreak Blue provides access to frontier general-purpose models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, with safeguards tailored to authorized defensive security work. Daybreak Red provides access to our purpose-trained cybersecurity models for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing. These models help accelerate vulnerability research, detection engineering, and incident response, from initial discovery through a validated fix. They also support complex workflows such as exploit reproduction and mitigation development."AI CLOUD DEALS:In ato shareholders, Nebiusfounder and CEO Arkady Volozh said that the company closed its largest AI Cloud deals on the strongest terms to date, "at prices that represent a step-change in the economics of our business." The company added that new pricing initiatives in early Q3 "such as our first-ever auction and short-term capacity deals - are showing promise. We see a price opportunity in the $40-50 million per MW range and we signed our first one this week. Overall deal economics strengthened, with 70% of deals including prepayments, covering 50-60% of the associated capex. Together, the expected payback period for the associated capex and related operating costs for Q2 deals is 1 year and 10 months, down from our two-to-three year payback period previously. We could sell our entire 2027 capacity on these terms today. We are deliberately not doing so because we see higher value in retaining some capacity for immediate customer needs."REPLACING LEGACY TOOLS:The Department of Agriculture has tapped C3 AIas it aims to replace costly legacy tools, The Information's Laura Bratton. C3's correspondence management software helped the agency use AI to sort through and respond to a backlog of roughly 2,000 unanswered in just two months.

Riot Blockchain Shares Rise 8.07% to $20.96

Moderately bullish activity in Riot Blockchain (RIOT), with shares up $1.56, or 8.07%, near $20.96. Options volume extremely heavy with 117k contracts traded and calls leading puts for a put/call ratio of 0.29, compared to a typical level near 0.68. Implied volatility (IV30) dropped 10.01 near 89.08,and above the 52wk median, suggesting an expected daily move of $1.18. Put-call skew flattened, suggesting a modestly bullish tone.The company announced earnings after the close on 2026-08-10with option markets having priced in a move of approximately 14.85%.