The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Vir…
Two Seattle city council committees have passed a one-year moratorium and a resolution on data centers. The measures are still up for a vote in the full council, but many consider that simply as a formality.
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Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, b…
For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab gave her first major media a…
Two days. That is how long Nvidia’s latest robotics model sat at the top of the RoboArena leaderboard before a startup from Hangzhou knocked it off. On Wednesday, Spirit AI announced that its foundation model for embodied intelligence, Spirit v1.6, had…
The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep pace with the technology, using the term to defend a government-backed bill that would amend J…
One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up f…
A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations has urged the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage, warning that soaring DRAM prices and constrained supply could raise costs for consumer electronic…
Anthropic has published a report warning that the development path it’s on could eventually leave humans unable to control AI systems.
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Meta is reportedly building more tents that house expensive data centers across the U.S., as it reportedly cuts construction time from two to three years to just a few months. It’s also bringing its own power instead of re…