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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon
Google and Amazon's latest sustainability reports reveal double-digit emissions jumps — 25% and 16% respectively — driven largely by the AI data center buildout, putting their net-zero pledges in seri
Anthropic in talks with Samsung for custom AI chip
Anthropic is exploring a custom AI chip collaboration with Samsung, even as the company emphasizes that its multi-vendor hardware stack with Google, Amazon, and Nvidia remains central to its compute s
Can Cursor Keep OpenAI and Anthropic Models After SpaceX?
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor raises questions about whether the AI coding startup will remain a multi-model platform offering Anthropic and OpenAI's models, or whether Musk's rivals will
Musk: Optimus Production 'Extremely Slow at First'
Musk rejected a fan theory that Tesla is secretly ahead on Optimus, warning that humanoid robot production will be 'extremely slow at first' as the company converts a former Model S/X plant for the re
Altman Proposes Giving 5% of OpenAI to US Wealth Fund
Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of OpenAI's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, with other AI companies making similar contributions to ease political tensions with the Trump administration. T
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion enterprise AI deployment unit with 6,000 experts — part of a wave of FDE-style ventures from AWS, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5,000+ startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
Global venture capital hit a record $510B in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic alone absorbing $217B — roughly 43% of all funding deployed.
Woodside Energy Scales Agentic AI for Industrial Ops
Woodside Energy is scaling agentic AI across its industrial energy operations, betting that years of investment in data infrastructure and governance—not consumer-facing generative AI hype—will delive
OpenAI in Early Talks to Give US Government 5% Stake
OpenAI is in early-stage talks to give the US government a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer, with Sam Altman arguing the public deserves a financial share of AI's gains as the company seeks to ease t
Nvidia swaps GPU access for startup revenue share
Nvidia is launching a partnership program that gives fast-growing AI startups token credits for compute power, in exchange for slices of their product and cloud revenue, with Australia's Sharon AI and
OpenAI Floats 5% Government Stake to Ease Trump Tensions
OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake to ease tensions with the Trump administration and counter mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Time
India hackathon bets on offline, open-source AI devices
India has launched a hackathon through government-backed Bhashini and French nonprofit Current AI to build affordable, offline, multilingual AI devices running on open-source models — targeting classr
Meta Adds Subscription Tier for Smart Glasses Features
Meta is now requiring a Meta One Premium Plan subscription to unlock advanced features like Conversation Focus on its Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Meta-branded smart glasses—introducing a recurring-fee layer
Polis Defends Data Centers, Blasts Coal Subsidies
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis defended data centers as essential infrastructure while criticizing the Trump administration's push to keep coal plants open, in an Axios interview at the Aspen Ideas Festiva
Microsoft Elevate Webinar Maps AI in Indian Education
At a Microsoft Elevate webinar focused on Indian education, educators, non-profit leaders, and technologists convened to discuss how AI can make learning more personal, inclusive, and human.
CarbonSix raises $40M Series A for manufacturing AI
CarbonSix, a San Francisco-based Physical AI company developing AI automation and robotic intelligence for manufacturing, raised a $40 million Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment.
Turakhia Puts $30M Of Own Money Into AI Work Platform Neo
Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is personally funding $30 million to launch Neo, an AI-native enterprise work platform, betting that legacy workplace software like Microsoft Office cannot b
Weird Al Turned Down 'Nice Pile Of Money' For AI Ad
Weird Al Yankovic revealed he turned down a lucrative commercial deal after discovering it was promoting AI, saying he can't be the 'poster boy for AI.'
Kent Beck on TDD, Agile, and Trust in the AI Era
Kent Beck — who co-authored the Agile Manifesto, created Extreme Programming, and pioneered TDD — shares his career story on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast and argues software engineering is failing t
Cybertruck Charging Failures Mount, Tesla Avoids Recall
Tesla Cybertruck owners are increasingly reporting Power Conversion System failures that kill home Level 2 charging, yet Tesla is replacing parts quietly case-by-case while refusing to issue a recall
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