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OpenAI plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure by 2030, starting with a massive Georgia data centre
The company's first move is a 1,400-acre campus near Savannah that will draw enough electricity to power a small city, mostly from new natural gas plants.

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Cheering Australia's AI Rules. Here's the Real Reason Why.
Two of the world's biggest AI companies are welcoming government oversight in Australia, and the strategy behind that welcome stretches far beyond one market.

AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AI
The chipmaker will supply massive computing power to the maker of Claude, and in return will use Claude to help write its own software.

Google is putting $40 million of AI credits into America's national science labs
The Genesis Mission gets access to AlphaFold 3, AlphaEvolve and Gemini for Government, and one lab has already cut a 90-minute task down to 13 minutes.

The Browser Is Becoming Your Personal Assistant: Here Are the Best Alternatives to Chrome and Safari
A new wave of AI browsers wants to do your tasks, not just show you web pages. Here is what is actually available, what it costs, and what you might be giving up for the privilege.

Google puts Gemini on Samsung's newest foldables, watches and smart glasses
Task automation now covers 40+ apps, Notebook lands preinstalled, and Gemini answers on your wrist without a wake word.

Passionfroot raises $15 million to connect B2B brands with specialist creators
The Berlin startup says AI is flooding the software market with lookalike products, pushing companies toward trusted human voices on LinkedIn, podcasts and newsletters to stand out.

Elon Musk wants Grok to make a full-length Odyssey film before the year is out
The billionaire says his AI image and video platform will produce a 'historically accurate' version of Homer's epic. A three-minute clip is already circulating. Here is what we actually know.

US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.

Meta's New AI Watermark Is Already Failing Basic Tests
Content Seal, Meta's invisible stamp on AI-generated images, can't be read by rival detection tools and failed to flag more than half the images in one real-world test. Users deserve a straight answer about what this actually catches.

Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.
Utility giants and data centre operators have joined a White House promise to protect consumers from higher electricity bills caused by AI. The pledge is voluntary, carries no penalties, and enforcement is largely out of federal hands.

A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives On
Glow raised $180 million before anyone outside its investors had heard of it. Its pitch: the laptop is the new battleground, and old security tools were not built for an AI-loaded world.

Synthesia Lets Employees Practice Difficult Conversations With AI Avatars
The video-avatar company just launched live interactive coaching sessions, where workers roleplay tricky workplace chats and get scored on how they did.

Anthropic's Mythos AI Finds New Bugs Fast. Your Old Unpatched Ones Are Still the Real Danger.
The security world is fixated on how many flaws Anthropic's new Mythos system can discover. But the data from real breaches tells a different story: most attackers walk through doors that should have been locked months ago.

Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.
A weekend rumour about Anthropic buying robotics firm Physical Intelligence turned out to be more grounded than the denial suggested. And OpenAI may already hold cards that complicate any deal.

AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It's the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price premium and software gap are real hurdles.

London Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152 Million at a $1.35 Billion Valuation
Founded only last year, the company has Bosch as a contract manufacturer and Schaeffler as an investor. Its wheeled robot is already being tested at customer sites.

Bristol Myers Squibb Just Gave Every One of Its Scientists Access to the Biggest AI Computer in Drug Research
The pharma giant is doubling its AI computing power with a new NVIDIA supercomputer cluster, and opening it up to every researcher at the company, not just a chosen few.

AI Assistants Are Moving Into the Tools That Make Films, Games and News
NVIDIA used the SIGGRAPH graphics conference to show how AI agents are being built into creative software, and how newsrooms can now get a score telling them whether a video was generated by AI.

AI confidence among IT leaders just fell sharply. Here is why that is good news.
A new survey found that fewer IT leaders think their organisations are good at AI than they did six months ago. The reason tells you everything about where AI is actually headed.

Meta Is Testing an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your Kids
StoryKit lets parents generate personalised children's stories at the tap of a button. Whether handing the world's oldest human tradition to a chatbot is a good idea is a different question entirely.