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Google to lease SpaceX/AI supercomputers for $920 million a month before IPO

by the Logistics TransportIn the the General Assembly

Google has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to lease the company's computing capacity. Google will pay €920 million per month for 32 months.

With this development, the roles were reversed; Just five years ago, Google agreed to provide SpaceX ’e computing resources to provide internet services via Starlink satellites.

However, since SpaceX acquired artificial intelligence firm xAI’ in February 2026’, both owned by Elon Musk’, it currently operates a large number of large data centers called ’Colossus’, with a total computing capacity of over 2 GW‘ in the U.S. ’, and the estimated combined value of ‘SpaceX/AI’ is now $1.25 trillion.

The deal came days before SpaceX’'s planned public offering. The company also announced a similar deal with Anthropic in May.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google’, invested in SpaceX’ in 2015, when the company was worth only $12 billion. Today, SpaceX plans to go public with a valuation of over $1.75 trillion. The Google deal is expected to further increase the IPO value.

In SpaceX's IPO file, “, which deals in computing services with third parties, wrote in the ” section, “, that we believe our computer infrastructure and related strategy provide us with significant flexibility in how we allocate capacity and monetize it.

Over a hundred thousand special processors

According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, processors and memory components deployed in SpaceX’in data centers.

The range of use will be from October 2026 to June 2029.

SpaceX’'s regulatory application

According to the agreement, SpaceX ’ “ will not be able to access the promised amount of GPU’ until September 30, 2026’, Google will be able to terminate the agreement immediately or accept GPU”s provided at a discounted fee after a one-month grace period.

The Google deal represents the second major infrastructure deal announced after SpaceX ’ merged with xAI.

According to NBC’, Google aims to scale capacity to meet the growing customer demand for AI platforms and intermediaries, especially among large businesses.

While Musk’'s Grok AI model is not yet profitable, it showcases these deals with the world's richest entrepreneur, Google and Anthropic, as a valuable return on investment in large-scale data centers.

Meanwhile, deep fake pornography created through Grok triggered a global regulatory response against xAI’; The tech firm is now facing numerous lawsuits and government investigations that could result in hefty fines for non-consensual obscene content. Only in the United Kingdom’ta, United Kingdom GDPRData protection violations under ’si will result in %It can lead to fines up to 4’.

Google engineer charged with alleged $1.2 million Polymarket insider trading scheme

by the Logistics TransportIn the the General Assembly

Betting on Polymarket’ should be a fun, low-intensity gamble where you buy ‘evet’ or ‘no’ shares for the outcome of a real-world event and hope to accurately predict how it will turn out – if you feel winning at this point 1 $ It pays, and if you're feeling lost, it pays nothing.

That is, if you are not an employee at Google’ and federal prosecutors do not claim to already know the answers, this could mean insider trading; This could be one of the most aggressively investigated white-collar crimes on record, requiring a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

According to ’, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michele Spagnuolo’, a software engineer on staff at Google’, allegedly pocketed more than $1.2 million (€1.1 million) at Polymarket’ using his employer's most discreet collection of annual trend data. His nickname was “AlphaRaccoon”.

Spagnuolo is now charged with commodity fraud, electronic fraud and money laundering by federal prosecutors in ’, New York.

The Spagnuolo case is the second high-profile case filed in more than a month on the trade of insiders in a prediction market; It's part of a largely unexplored legal frontier that prosecutors are grappling with how current fraud and commodity laws apply to platforms like Polymarket, which is unlike any traditional exchange.

Google’'s ‘In the Search Year, how did ’ turn into a trading tip?

Every December, Google publishes “Year Search Trends, a polished and carefully crafted description of the year's most searched searches. It drives traffic, occupies an important place in the media, and, as mentioned in the application notes, ’, a high-profile tool that Google“ shows advertisers access to, serves as ”.

Commercially, the real issue is surprise. Google protects basic data closely and even internally; access is limited to a limited number of employees.

Spagnuolo’, who has worked at Google’ since circa 2014, allegedly accessed an internal software tool with a banner labeled ’Google Confidential “, which allowed him to see Search Results of the Year before anyone else outside the company.

Enter AlphaRaccoon’

Using the prediction market platform Polymarket’ta, users can bet on the results of real-world events such as elections, sports results, and cultural moments using cryptocurrency. October 2025’te Polymarket begins offering markets on who will be the most searched person of the year on Google’.

Around the same time, a Polymarket account called “AlphaRaccoon” also started betting.

FBI Special Agent Brandon Racz claims that between October and December 2025, Spagnuolo’ accessed Google’'s secret Annual Search data and then placed bets, sometimes within hours, that accurately reflected what he saw on Polymarket’.

Spagnuolo’ allegedly accessed the internal vehicle on or near October 15, 2025’te. The next day, the AlphaRaccoon account stated that Kendrick Lamar’ would be the number one wanted person in 2025. pproximately 403 ’ $ (373 €) and Pope Leo XIV, against ’ being in the top 10,807 $ (€10,022) wagered.

According to prosecutors, he allegedly knew this because internal data had already told him so.

Betting against the crowd

What makes the alleged plan particularly striking is how it works in practice. Allegedly, Spagnuolo knew who couldn't rank high in the rankings, so he could bet heavily against crowd favorites and collect wins when popular predictions didn't materialize.

AlphaRaccoon account, the probability of the market %At a time when he put it around 85, Bianca Censori asked ’ whether he would be the number one wanted person, and “no told ” about 937,688. $ (869,083 €) wagered.

Pope Leo XIV against ’ implied probabilities approximately 613,587 $ (€568,628) and against Donald Trump’ %Around 90 about 509,149 $ (471,741 €) bets are placed.

In total, in about 25 bets on Annual Search Results, AlphaRaccoon risked about $2.75 million (€2.55 million).

When Google released the ’te results on December 4, 2025, confirming that the top five trending people worldwide were d4vd, Kendrick Lamar, Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Robinson, and Pope Leo XIV, the account was left with a profit of about $1.2 million (€1.11 million).

Don't cover it up

After the markets were resolved, about $3.9 million (3.6 million euros) in USDC.e, a cryptocurrency tied to the value of the U.S. dollar, was released into the AlphaRaccoon account. On Dec. 10, the ’ account transferred about $5 million (€4.6 million) to a linked cryptocurrency wallet.

Polymarket used USDC.e’ as the main payment currency for trades and payments on the Polygon blockchain network.

According to the complaint, the funds went through at least two cryptocurrency swaps before being moved to a service that prosecutors said was designed to make transactions difficult to track.

Meanwhile, online communities on Discord and X’ had already begun speculating that AlphaRaccoon’ was one of Google’. Soon after, the username was quietly removed from the account and converted to an anonymous alphanumeric string.

The FBI tracked down the wallet anyway.

Prosecutors used the AlphaRaccoon account of cryptocurrency records, the Italian government's ID card, to account for a payment processor registered to the name Michele Spagnuolo, about 149,980. $ He claims to have tied it to a sending wallet (€138,916).

The accusations are

Spagnuolo faces three charges. The first is commodity fraud, which is based on allegations that prosecutors use important non-public information to transact on Polymarket’, which they consider a platform that offers commodity-linked contracts.

The second is electronic fraud related to the alleged misuse of Google’'s confidential business information for personal gain. The third is money laundering in connection with prosecutors' claims that they took steps to conceal the source and ownership of revenues after December 2025’.

The complaint was sworn in before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in the Southern District of ’, New York.

The case follows the trial of U.S. Army Special Forces Special Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke’nin, who was accused of placing lucrative bets on Polymarket’ using classified information on a U.S. military operation targeting Nicolás Maduro’ in April. Prosecutors say Van Dyke’ turned nearly $33,000 in bets into more than $400,000 in profits. He pleaded not guilty.

Google has explained: Istanbul Airport is the best in Europe

by the Logistics TransportIn the Category: Logistics

The users of US technology giant Google ⁇ chose Istanbul Airport ⁇ as the best in Europe. CNN recently announced that Istanbul Airport is the best transfer airport in the world.

Selahattin Bilgen, CEO of Istanbul Airport Operator İGA ⁇ , announced that Istanbul Airport ⁇ was selected as the best airport in Europe according to a survey conducted on Google users' comments.

Bilgen, who shared on his social media account, as seen in the ⁇ Google comments, we are deeply grateful to everyone who chose us and contributed to our success. Thank you for making Istanbul Airport the best in Europe. We are determined to continue the success. ⁇ He used his expressions.

According to the results of the survey conducted by Google users among European airports, Istanbul Airport ranked first with 4.4 points according to more than 100 thousand Google reviews. Istanbul Airport was followed by Porto, Athens, Czechia and Zurich airports in order of likes.

CNN, the US media giant, recently included the best airports in the world for connecting flights. According to CNN, Istanbul Airport (IGA) was the best airport in the world for transfer flights. CNN, which compiled the data of the aviation company Cirium ⁇ un, noted that Istanbul Airport ⁇ , which opened its doors in October 2018, has improved considerably in 6 years. According to the report, with 309 ports, Istanbul Airport has become the bridge between east and west.

In 2023, more than 76 million passengers flew. The airport, which has an annual capacity of 200 million passengers, is also distinguished by its central location between the east and west of the world. In addition, numerous services offered for the comfort of passengers are the first choice of passengers flying through Istanbul Airport.

Of course, most of these flights are made with Turkish Airlines, the company that flies to the most destinations in the world. The quality of service offered by THY ⁇ also allows passengers to have a comfortable journey through Istanbul Airport. The airport's 5 runways, which allow aircraft of all types and bodies to land and take off, are also important advantages of the airport.

İGA Istanbul Airport, which scored 95.79 points as a result of the votes of the readers in the ⁇ World's Top 10 International Airport ⁇ survey organized annually by Travel and Leisure ⁇ , the world's leading travel magazine based in New York, USA, was entitled to the title ⁇ World's Best Airport ⁇ in July.

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