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Antimatter Launches as the World’s First Vertically Integrated Neocloud for AI Inference

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Combining over 1GW of power capacity secured through grid connection agreements and reserved sites across distributed micro-power sites in the US, Europe and GCC, Antimatter will deploy a global network of 1,000 distributed micro data centers to serve the growing AI inference market — 5 times faster and 50% cheaper than hyperscalers.

CANNES, France, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Antimatter, a new category of neocloud purpose-built for the distributed AI economy, today announced its launch through the strategic combination of three companies: Datafactory (US-based energy and power infrastructure), Policloud (modular micro data center network), and Hivenet (distributed cloud provider).

The combined entity creates the industry’s first fully integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning energy sourcing, physical hardware, and cloud software — designed to serve the explosive global demand for AI inference at a fraction of hyperscale cost and dramatically faster time to market.

Antimatter is deploying capital at an unprecedented pace to build out the first global neocloud network optimized for AI inference. The company is securing €300 million to fund the deployment of its first 100 Policloud units by 2027, representing 40,000 GPUs and over 3.6 exaFLOPS of active compute capacity.

By the end of 2030, the planned network of 1,000 Policlouds will provide more than 400,000 GPUs and over 36 exaFLOPS of distributed AI inference capacity — the equivalent of five traditional hyperscale data centers, deployed across dozens of countries with 50% lower capital spending and significantly faster time to market.

Antimatter is led by David Gurlé, the serial high-tech entrepreneur who founded Microsoft’s Real-Time Communications business (today’s Microsoft Teams), led Skype’s enterprise division and its sale to Microsoft, and founded Symphony Communication Services.

“In the age of AI, intelligence is not the bottleneck — energy is,” said David Gurlé, Cofounder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of Antimatter. “The infrastructure built for the first era of cloud and AI was designed around centralized scale. But the inference era requires a different model: more distributed, faster to deploy, and sovereign by design. That is the infrastructure Antimatter is building.”

Why AI Inference is Breaking the Cloud Model

The first wave of AI was about training massive models in centralized data centers. But the next phase — inference — is about running those models billions of times per day, across applications like copilots, agents, and real-time decision systems.

That shift changes everything. Inference requires infrastructure that is closer to users, faster to deploy, more energy-efficient, and geographically distributed. Traditional hyperscalers were not built for this. Their model relies on massive, centralized campuses that can take years to build and require enormous upfront capital.

Antimatter’s answer: bring the data center to the energy, not the energy to the data center.

The global data center capacity market is projected to grow from 55GW in 2023 to 220GW by 2030 — a 22% CAGR — yet grid connection queues and infrastructure delays are emerging as the primary bottleneck. In Europe alone, more than 12 TWh of renewable electricity were curtailed in 2023, representing over €4.2 billion in lost value. At the same time, more than 1,000GW of additional renewable capacity remains stuck in permitting and grid-connection queues across Europe and the GCC.

A Full-Stack Neocloud Built for the AI Inference Era

Antimatter is uniquely positioned as the only neocloud that controls the complete value chain:

Energy-first model

More than 1GW of power capacity secured through formal grid connection agreements and site reservations, including over 160MW already operational across Texas and Oregon, USA. Antimatter deploys Policloud units directly at or near existing power assets — including wind, solar, hydro, or biogas sites — converting stranded generation into productive AI infrastructure in a matter of months, rather than waiting years for new transmission capacity.

Decentralized infrastructure layer

A fleet of modular, containerized micro data centers, each housing up to 400 GPUs and deployable in as little as five months, compared with 24+ months for traditional hyperscale builds. Antimatter currently operates 10 units across 8 sites and has a commercial pipeline of more than 500 additional units.

Distributed software layer

A proprietary distributed computing and storage platform providing the orchestration intelligence that connects distributed hardware into a single, sovereign cloud fabric with global default Tier 3 capability — supporting billions of inference requests each day, with sub-10ms latency for edge workloads and full data sovereignty for regulated industries.

Key Competitive Advantages

Metric

Antimatter

Traditional Hyperscale

Capex per fully loaded MW

~$7M

~$35M

Deployment timeline

5 months

24+ months

Customer pricing

~50% below hyperscalers

Market rate

Edge latency

Sub-10ms

Variable

Carbon reduction

~70% lower; zero water cooling

Standard

Data sovereignty

Sovereign-by-design; local jurisdiction

Bolt-on solutions

Strong Commercial Traction

Antimatter enters the market with demonstrated commercial momentum:

$20m forward looking revenue3,344 GPUs deployed with demand for 10,000+100 Policlouds being deployed in 2027, representing 40,000+ GPUs1,000 Policlouds planned by end of 2030, representing 400,000+ GPUsDiversified customer base: Energy sector (35%), Public sector (30%), Agriculture (15%), Corporates (20%)

The company is targeting $250M+ in revenue within the next 18 months and $3.0B+ by the end of 2030.

Investor Perspectives

“AI infrastructure is now a strategic asset class, and the winners will be those who can combine hard assets with software at scale. Antimatter’s vertically integrated model — from megawatts to APIs — is exactly the kind of infrastructure we believe can define the next decade of digital growth.” — Alex Manson, CEO of SC Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank

“France and Europe need sovereign, energy-efficient infrastructure to compete in AI. What convinced us about Antimatter is not just the technology, but the ability to deploy micro data centers in months, on existing power assets, while meeting the most demanding regulatory constraints.” — Stéphanie Hospital, Founder and CEO of OneRagtime

“We are witnessing first-hand how emerging markets are leapfrogging legacy infrastructure and going straight to AI-native architectures. Antimatter’s model — distributed, capital-efficient and deeply integrated with energy — is built for these environments and for an economy increasingly shaped by AI.” — Noor Sweid, Founder and Managing Partner, Global Ventures

“At Inria, we work every day at the frontier of AI and high-performance computing. Antimatter’s approach is compelling because it reconciles cutting-edge AI workloads with more frugal, sustainable infrastructure — distributed, software-defined, and close to available energy. It is a strong illustration of the deeptech industrial story we want to see emerge in Europe.” — Bruno Sportisse, Chairman and CEO of Inria

About the Founder

David Gurlé is a French entrepreneur, engineer, and Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. He has founded seven companies, including Symphony Communication Services ($1.4B valuation), and held senior leadership roles at Microsoft (where he founded the Real-Time Communications business), Thomson Reuters, and Skype (VP & General Manager, Enterprise). He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Telecommunications from EFREI Paris.

About Antimatter

Antimatter is the distributed neocloud for AI inference. By vertically integrating energy, modular infrastructure, and orchestration software, Antimatter deploys enterprise-grade AI compute infrastructure faster, cheaper, and more sustainably than traditional hyperscale providers. Headquartered in Cannes, France, with major operations in the United States, Antimatter serves enterprises, governments, and AI companies worldwide.

www.antimatter.com

Note on exaFLOPS calculation: RTX 5090 = ~90 TFLOPS FP32. 40,000 GPUs x 90 TFLOPS = 3,600 petaFLOPS = 3.6 exaFLOPS. For 400,000 GPUs = 36 exaFLOPS.

CONTACT: Ariane Forgues, aforgues@mantu.com 

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OceanaGold Reports Voting Results from its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

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VANCOUVER, BC, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – OceanaGold Corporation (TSX: OGC) (NYSE: OGC) (“OceanaGold” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the voting results from the Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the “AGM”) held today.

A total of 184,072,822 common shares of the Company were represented in person or by proxy at the AGM, representing 82.06% of common shares outstanding as at the record date. Shareholders voted in favour of each of the items of business at the AGM.

Election of Directors

Each of the director nominees listed in OceanaGold’s Management Information Circular dated April 23, 2026 was elected as a director of the Company to hold office for the ensuing year or until their successors are elected or appointed. Detailed results of the vote for each director are set out in the table below:

Directors

Votes For

%

Votes Withheld

%

Paul Benson

132,452,772

77.70

38,003,874

22.30

Ian M. Reid

169,552,116

99.47

904,530

0.53

Craig J. Nelsen

169,280,303

99.31

1,176,343

0.69

Sandra M. Dodds

167,057,565

98.01

3,399,081

1.99

Alan N. Pangbourne

170,267,931

99.89

188,715

0.11

Linda M. Broughton

170,153,528

99.82

303,118

0.18

Stefanie E. Loader

169,432,122

99.40

1,024,524

0.60

Gerard M. Bond

170,272,112

99.89

184,534

0.11

Appointment of Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was appointed as the auditor of the Company to hold office until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until its successor is appointed, at a remuneration to be fixed by the directors of the Company.

Votes For

%

Votes Withheld

%

180,933,130

98.29

3,139,692

1.71

Advisory Vote on the Approach to Executive Compensation

A non-binding resolution on the Company’s approach to executive compensation was approved.

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

165,775,649

97.25

4,680,997

2.75

Virtual-Only Annual General Meetings

A resolution to hold the Company’s 2027 annual general meeting of shareholders in a virtual-only format was approved.

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

106,379,295

62.41

64,077,351

37.59

About OceanaGold

OceanaGold is a global intermediate gold and copper producer committed to safely and responsibly maximizing the generation of Free Cash Flow from our operations and delivering strong returns for our shareholders. We have a portfolio of four operating mines: the wholly-owned Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America; the wholly-owned Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand; and the 80%-owned Didipio Mine in the Philippines.

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AI Engines Trust Hermès, Rolex, Chanel and Ferrari Most — 5W and Haute Living Release The AI Luxury 25

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First ranking of the twenty-five luxury houses defining the AI era, scored by citation share across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

MIAMI, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 5W, the AI Communications Firm, and Haute Living, today released The AI Luxury 25, the first ranking of the world’s leading luxury houses by how clearly the AI engines describe them. Twenty-five houses, five engines, five equal dimensions, one composite score. Hermès leads at 98.6. Rolex, Patek Philippe, Chanel, and Ferrari complete the top tier.

More than a third of luxury buyers now begin product research with AI, not Google. The first impression a buyer forms is the answer an engine returns when asked about a house — and certain houses surface, cleanly and consistently, while others blur. The AI Luxury 25 measures that gap and ranks the houses most deeply embedded in AI-generated answers.

The study scores each house on archival depth, citation density, entity clarity, editorial consistency, and retrieval stability. Hermès posts the cleanest entity profile in consumer commerce. Rolex records the only perfect entity-clarity score in the index. Aman, founded in 1988, is the modern house rising fastest — proof that retrieval authority can be built on purpose, not just inherited.

“In the AI era, the answer is the first impression,” said Ronn Torossian, Founder and Chairman of 5W AI Communications. “The houses at the top of this index earned it the only way it can be earned — a century of saying the same thing, consistently, until the machine learned it cold. That consistency is the modern form of brand equity. Everyone else now has to build it on purpose.”

“For two centuries the great houses competed for the cover, the window, the front row,” said Kamal Hotchandani, Founder and CEO of Haute Living. “The new front row is the answer a machine returns when a buyer asks. Hermès and Rolex didn’t set out to win it — they earned it with a century of discipline. This index measures who owns that answer.”

The full study, ranked tables, and methodology are available at https://www.5wpr.com/ai-visibility-index/ai-luxury-25-2026/

About Haute Living

Haute Living is the luxury lifestyle media brand covering the people, places, and brands defining the global luxury economy. Learn more at hauteliving.com.

About 5W AI Communications

5W is the AI Communications Firm, building brand authority across the platforms where decisions now happen — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — alongside earned media, digital, and influencer channels. 5W combines public relations, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and proprietary AI visibility research, helping clients measure and grow their presence in AI-driven buyer research.

Founded more than 20 years ago, 5W has been recognized as a top U.S. PR agency by O’Dwyer’s, named Agency of the Year in the American Business Awards®, and honored as a Top Place to Work in Communications in 2026 by Ragan. 5W serves clients across B2C sectors including Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, and Nonprofit; B2B specialties including Corporate Communications and Reputation Management; as well as Public Affairs, Crisis Communications, and Digital Marketing, including Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, GEO, and SEO. 5W was also named to the Digiday WorkLife Employer of the Year list.

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Hut 8 Closes $4.25 Billion of Investment-Grade Senior Secured Notes for Beacon Point Data Center Project

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Hut 8’s second investment-grade data center construction bond — fully amortizing, non-recourse, and non-dilutive — rated Baa2 and priced 20 basis points inside the River Bend notes issuance spread

Substantially oversubscribed, broadening Hut 8’s institutional credit investor base and bringing cumulative project-level, investment-grade data center construction financing to $7.5 billion

MIAMI, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) (“Hut 8” or the “Company”), an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive technologies, today announced the closing of a $4.25 billion offering (the “Offering”) of 6.129% senior secured notes due 2042 (the “Notes”) issued by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Beacon Point DC LLC (the “Issuer”). The Notes are rated Baa2 by Moody’s Ratings, one notch above the BBB− assigned by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings to Hut 8’s River Bend financing in April 2026.

The Issuer intends to use the proceeds from the Offering to (i) finance (1) the development and construction of a turnkey data center, comprising six data halls with a combined total of 352 megawatts of critical IT capacity, to be built on an approximately 521-acre property in Nueces County, Texas and (2) the construction of the substation located on the property, which data center facility will be leased to a tenant that is a high-investment-grade company (i.e., rated AA− or higher) as of the date hereof pursuant to the data center lease agreement, (ii) fund debt service reserves, and (iii) pay fees and expenses in connection with the Offering.

Offering Highlights

Demonstrates the repeatability of an investment-grade financing model that preserves balance-sheet strength: The Offering marks the second execution of a financing model that is non-recourse to Hut 8, fully funded at the project level, and non-dilutive to existing shareholders, with no expected equity issuance by Hut 8 to fund the project. The fully amortizing structure eliminates refinancing risk at the project level, while its non-recourse profile allows Hut 8 to maintain zero recourse debt at the parent level, leaving its balance sheet unconstrained.Reflects disciplined, first-principles execution marked by improved rating, pricing, and scale: The Offering improves upon the first execution of the model at River Bend across rating and spread. At T+165 basis points, the Notes priced 20 basis points inside the River Bend notes issuance spread. These terms establish the Offering as the largest, tightest-priced, and highest-rated investment-grade bond issued to date in a single-sponsor data center construction financing. Across successive executions, this progression supports Hut 8’s pursuit of a corporate investment-grade profile.Confirms broadening institutional endorsement of Hut 8’s development financing model: Investor demand validates Hut 8’s model of financing investment-grade, construction-stage development. The Offering was substantially oversubscribed and attracted both repeat investors and new investors who did not participate in the River Bend offering, broadening Hut 8’s institutional credit investor base. Together, River Bend and Beacon Point represent $7.5 billion of investment-grade capital raised for construction-stage data center development, a credit standard rarely achieved prior to commercial operations.

Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “The investment-grade market has historically not been available to finance project-level data center construction. Together with our River Bend offering, this Offering establishes the ability of our data center projects to access investment-grade financing markets and demonstrates a repeatable model for funding construction-stage development. We believe this structure, which eliminates refinancing risk and protects shareholder value, can support a durable competitive advantage as we continue to scale.”

Sean Glennan, CFO of Hut 8, said: “The hallmark of this financing model is repeatability. What enables us to deliver superior outcomes over time, however, is rigor of execution. Each term of the Offering was structured from first principles rather than inherited from the prior offering. Beacon Point improves on River Bend across key financing metrics, including rating and spread. We intend to bring that same discipline to future transactions.”

J.P. Morgan acted as lead bookrunner for the Offering. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as a bookrunner for the Offering.

About Hut 8

Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive technologies such as AI, high-performance computing, and ASIC compute. The Company develops, commercializes, and operates industrial-scale energy and data center infrastructure through a power-first, innovation-driven approach. For more information, visit hut8.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This press release includes “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States securities laws, respectively (collectively, “forward-looking information”). All information, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events, or developments that Hut 8 expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including statements relating to the anticipated use of proceeds from the Offering, the development and construction of the Beacon Point project, the expected benefits and repeatability of the Company’s financing model, the Company’s pursuit of a corporate investment-grade profile, the Company’s development pipeline, and the Company’s future business strategy, competitive strengths, expansion, and growth of the business and operations more generally, and other such matters is forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is often identified by the words “may,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “will,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “allow,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “predict,” “can, “might,” “potential,” “is designed to,” “likely,” or similar expressions.

Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts, but instead represent management’s expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events based on certain material factors and assumptions at the time the statement was made. While considered reasonable by Hut 8 as of the date of this press release, such statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, but not limited to, risks relating to the construction of new data centers, including cost overruns, delays, supply chain issues, permitting or regulatory hurdles, unexpected technical challenges, and dependency on contractors; risks relating to the financing of new data centers, including the potential dilutive impact of equity issuances (if any), access to capital markets, timing and cost of financing, and market conditions such as increases in interest rates, declining equity valuations, volatility in credit markets, or tightening lending standards; risks impacting our ability to expand the power capacity at the River Bend campus, such as limitations of transmission and/or generation resources; failure of critical systems; geopolitical, social, economic, and other events and circumstances; competition from current and future competitors; risks related to power requirements; cybersecurity threats and breaches; hazards and operational risks; changes in leasing arrangements; Internet-related disruptions; dependence on key personnel; having a limited operating history; attracting and retaining customers; entering into new offerings or lines of business; price fluctuations and rapidly changing technologies; predicting facility requirements; strategic alliances or joint ventures; operating and expanding internationally; hedging transactions; potential liquidity constraints; legal, regulatory, governmental, and technological uncertainties; physical risks related to climate change; involvement in legal proceedings; trading volatility; and other risks described from time to time in Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the Company’s recent and upcoming annual and quarterly reports and other continuous disclosure documents, which are available under the Company’s EDGAR profile at sec.gov and SEDAR+ profile at sedarplus.ca. Information in this press release is as of the dates and time periods indicated herein, and neither the Company nor the Issuer undertake to update any of the information contained in these materials, except as required by law.

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