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SpaceX Tried to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition. Its CEO Says That's Not True.

Bloomberg reported a takeover approach. Cognition's CEO shot it down publicly within hours. What we actually know, and what it tells us about how much money is flowing into AI coding tools.

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TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.

The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.

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Calendly Launches a Meeting Note-Taker to Compete in a Crowded Market

The scheduling app wants to do more than book your meetings. Now it will record them, summarise them, and help with the work that comes after.

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Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.

Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.

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Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down

A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.

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OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company's staff exits are not unusual. Here is what happened.

Two senior executives left OpenAI within days of each other. President Greg Brockman told CNBC the departures are less dramatic than they look from the outside.

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NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus

The chipmaker is guaranteeing power and land costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.

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Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages

The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.

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An AI chip startup just tripled its valuation in six months. Here's who's paying and why.

Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by a Wall Street trading giant that actually tested the hardware first. The numbers are striking. The speed of the rise is even more so.

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Perplexity gave away a year of free AI to 360 million Indians. Here is what happened next.

A deal with telecom giant Airtel flooded India with free premium subscriptions. Now that free year is ending, the revenue data offers the first real clue about whether giveaways can build paying AI customers.

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Warp launches a ready-made AI software factory so smaller companies can automate coding without building everything from scratch

Warp Factories gives engineering teams a pre-built system of AI agents that can handle the full cycle of software development, from planning a task to shipping and reviewing the code.

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AI tools sound most confident exactly when they are most wrong, new testing shows

A developer built a testing framework to measure whether an AI explainer tool actually got the right answer, not just whether it sounded convincing. What he found should worry any business relying on AI to guide real decisions.

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The AI shortcut that costs companies six times more than it should

A lead AI engineer spent a year building decision systems for regulated industries and found one fix that cut costs by 6x: stop sending every question to the language model in the first place.

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DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices

The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. And new testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.

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Anthropic's revenue hits $65 billion a year, and it's still accelerating

The maker of the Claude AI assistant is growing faster than almost any company in history, and investors expect it to hit $100 billion or more by year's end.

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