Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the p…

Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and Davi…

China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.
China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.

Hwatsing Technology, China’s leading producer of chemical mechanical polishing equipment, announced a metrology system for six-inch wafers on Thursday that can be built directly into the polishing workflow. The company describes it as China’s first six…

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpasse…

Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.
Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.

Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and strips out everything a human browser needs …

NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI

NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The compa…

AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value
AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software purchasing habits, where success is judged by login…

Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need
Samsung wants to float AI data centres in Texas. The state just froze the grid they need

The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer …

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem
WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…

Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …