Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea
Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea

As data centres run into unhappy neighbours and water limits on land, Samsung wants to float them offshore. Samsung Heavy Industries plans to launch its first floating data centre by 2028, Seoul Economic Daily reported. It would be a purpose-built barg…

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it
Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm…

ChatGPT Live could make talking to AI feel straight out of the movies

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new voice model for ChatGPT Voice that can listen and speak at the same time to make AI conversations feel faster and more natural.

Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic
Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and…

Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back
Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, …

Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows
Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. H…

OpenAI’s new GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time
OpenAI’s new GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time

OpenAI wants you to talk to ChatGPT, not type at it. On 8 July it launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models. The company says they make talking to AI feel much closer to a real conversation. Two versions, GPT-Live-1 and a smaller GPT-Live-1 m…

ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs
ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

The ALL-IN Podcast took its live show to the Louvre this week for the RAISE Summit. It put ElevenLabs co-founder and chief executive Mati Staniszewski in the hot seat. Host Jason Calacanis opened where it stings: revenue, competition, and whether a voi…

Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code
Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

Perplexity wants a piece of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco search startup has built an internal coding tool, codenamed “Teammate,” and may launch it publicly later, a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Its own engineers have …

Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs
Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

At RAISE Summit in Paris on Wednesday, “Shark Tank” investor Mark Cuban made the case for AI coding tools like Lovable and Replit, Business Insider reports. They can hold their own against the big AI labs, he argued. The reason: they now bundle service…