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Google, Nvidia and Anthropic Back a Startup That Wants to Squeeze 100 More Gigawatts From the Power Grid
A new coalition says smarter software can let data centers pause and shift their electricity use, unlocking grid space that new power plants alone cannot provide fast enough.
Google hires a Nobel economist to figure out what AI is actually doing to jobs
Philippe Aghion, Ajay Agrawal and two new program directors join Google's AI & Economy team to track how the technology reshapes work, wages and small business.
Moonshot AI wants $2 billion in revenue by year-end, even as it faces theft allegations
The Chinese lab behind the Kimi chatbot is chasing a revenue target double its August run rate. The ambition arrives the same week Anthropic accused it of secretly feeding millions of user queries through Claude.
Google bets 13 billion euros on Finland in its biggest European investment ever
The tech giant will pour 13 billion euros into AI data-centre infrastructure in Finland, drawn by available land, a cold climate and an unusually reliable power grid.
Sam Altman says taking OpenAI public in 2026 would be 'ill-advised'
The CEO cited AI safety concerns and a turbulent market as reasons to wait, even as the company has already begun formal IPO paperwork with regulators.
Amazon is opening ChatGPT to its advertisers, and that tells you something about where shoppers are going
The world's biggest online retailer is letting brands that advertise on Amazon run ads inside ChatGPT, a sign that AI chatbots are now serious marketing territory.
d-Matrix Plugs Its AI Chips Into NVIDIA's Factory Platform
A chipmaker building specialist inference processors just found a shortcut to deploying them at scale, and the technical gap it closes is bigger than the announcement looks.
AI's doom warnings are getting louder. Are they real, or just a strange kind of bragging?
An Anthropic researcher quit over existential fears, his old employer's alignment lead said there's a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all, and an IPO is weeks away. A TechCrunch podcast asked the obvious question: does anyone actually believe this?
Oracle's AI cloud business just had its best quarter ever. What the numbers actually mean.
Revenue hit $19.35 billion, cloud infrastructure more than doubled, and the company has taken on over $100 billion in debt to build data centres for AI. Big quarter. Bigger bet.
AI Slowdown Talk Spooks Investors, But One Old-School Data Company Is Quietly Winning
Calls from tech bosses to pump the brakes on AI sent European tech stocks to a six-week low. RELX, a British data firm, bucked the trend, and its rebound tells you something useful about who actually benefits when AI hype cools.
Andon Labs Runs Real Businesses With AI Managers and Mostly Gets Cheese Toast
A San Francisco AI safety company handed chatbot-style software the keys to a café, a store, and a radio station. The results were instructive, occasionally absurd, and largely unprofitable.
What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap
Building a strong AI product is only half the battle. The harder problem is making sure it still exists as a standalone business once the big labs catch up.
Superhuman buys AI meeting notetaker Fathom to turn your calls into automatic work
The email and productivity platform is acquiring Fathom, which has 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting summaries straight into its AI tools and agents.
OpenAI Pays Over $300 Million for Camera AI Startup Glass Imaging
Two former Apple engineers whose software sharpens smartphone photos at the moment of capture, not after, are now part of OpenAI.
Jensen Huang Took Trump's Call on a Phone Nobody Can Buy Yet
At a live conference in Los Angeles, the Nvidia CEO answered a surprise presidential call on an unreleased Apple foldable, and the two men agreed that AI safety fears are overblown.