AI Compute Land Grab Hits France, UK and Korea — June 08, 2026

SoftBank, Nebius and Naver are stacking up multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure bets across France, the UK and Korea, while DeepProve pushes verifiable LLM inference and Generalist AI raises $400 million for robotics foundation models. In this episode: Top stories: 1. SoftBank Group to Build 5 GW of AI Data Center Capacity in France | SoftBank Group Corp. — SoftBank Group Corp. https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20260531_0 2. Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities for agentic and enterprise AI | The AI Journal — The AI Journal https://aijourn.com/nebius-expands-in-uk-with-more-nvidia-powered-infrastructure-more-customers-and-more-cloud-capabilities-for-agentic-and-enterprise-ai/ 3. Naver and Nvidia to Build Gigawatt-Scale AI Factory... Strengthening Sovereign AI - The Asia Business Daily — The Asia Business Daily https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026060808462838992 4. DeepProve: Verifiable End-to-End Large Language Model Inference — IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1112 5. Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation to build general intelligence for robotics - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/generalist-ai-raises-400m-2b-valuation-build-general-intelligence-real-world/ Follow and rate AI Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts. Feedback? Email [email protected]