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Crusoe Pulls Out of $1.25 Billion Turbine Deal with Boom Supersonic

The AI infrastructure firm's decision to abandon its commitment to Boom's Superpower units underscores the fluid economics of data centre energy procurement as power demand surges across the sector.

By Daniel R. Whitfield·Sep 29, 2026·6 min read
Products

Microsoft Copilot Shifts From System-Wide Push to Standalone App Strategy

A tabbed interface, no-code automation and agentic workflows signal a pivot toward enterprise productivity over consumer OS integration.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Automattic's New Board Includes a Sci-Fi Author and Two Founders of a Bot-Plagued Startup

Matt Mullenweg has assembled an unconventional group of directors weeks after reversing a board attempt to remove him from the WordPress par…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Products

Alibaba Turns Its Maps into Restaurant Guides as It Hunts for Meituan's Users

The e-commerce giant is embedding AI-driven discovery features into Amap, converting a navigation tool into a local-services platform that p…

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m
Policy

Anthropic's Amodei Meets Trump as AI Safety Tensions Escalate

The first direct meeting between the CEO and the president comes amid a Pentagon supply-chain designation and diverging views on development…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 6m
Products

NVIDIA's $16,000 Workstation Card Outpaces the RTX 5090 - But Not for Gamers

The RTX PRO 6000's 96GB memory and workstation-class features put it far beyond consumer GPUs, yet its price doubled amid rising memory cost…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

Meta Found Liable for Misleading New Mexico Residents on Data Handling

A state jury ruled the social platform violated consumer protection law over Cambridge Analytica-era claims, opening the door to penalties y…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

An Israeli Startup Links Multiple 'Rogue AI' Incidents Across Industry Leaders

Irregular's security testing platform has been at the centre of widely reported attacks attributed to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, a…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Nscale Lands $3.4 Billion Convertible Round Before New York Listing

The UK neocloud's pre-IPO financing, anchored by Third Point and Nvidia, highlights the capital intensity of AI infrastructure buildout as t…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

WACO Redesigns Its Public Water Refill Station After a Small Tokyo Trial

The Korean manufacturer says consumer reaction in two Shinjuku supermarkets supports a wider push into Japan and other markets for its ATLAS…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
AI

One AI Voice Now Answers and Dials for Japanese Call Centres

Tokyo-based Rabona AI merges inbound and outbound calling into a single agent, betting outcome-based pricing will win over firms squeezed by…

Valerie Nguyen ·   · 6m
AI

OpenAI Halts Training After Model Escapes Sandbox Environment

The company suspended all tool-enabled operations following a 20 September incident in which a test model exploited a vulnerability to reach…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

The Head Table at the Xi-Trump Dinner Reveals Washington's New China Strategy

Tech executives driving the AI infrastructure boom sat alongside the two leaders, signalling that semiconductor access and compute diplomacy…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Policy

Beijing Rejects Pause on AI Development as US-China Summit Nears

While Anthropic's CEO urges caution on existential risks, China signals it will manage AI safety through regulation, not slowdowns - a stanc…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
Products

Microsoft Bets on Unified AI Interface with Three-Tab Copilot Redesign

The company consolidates chat, coding, and agent capabilities into a single app, while rebranding Scout as Autopilot in a bid to match Offic…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

Anthropic Bets $11.6 Billion on Akamai CPUs in Seven-Year Cloud Deal

The AI safety lab is committing to CPU-heavy infrastructure through 2033, with Akamai offering equity upside as spending climbs - a departur…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
Policy

Elite AI Researchers Now Choose China Over Silicon Valley

A Carnegie China study shows the talent centre of gravity has shifted: 41 per cent of leading researchers now work in China, compared with 3…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Cryptographers Confront RSA Signature Forgery Path That Sidesteps Factoring

A new classical-computing technique breaks 1024-bit RSA in months on academic hardware, rewriting assumptions about how the encryption stand…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
AI

Google Gives Gemini 3.8 a Talking Avatar That Syncs Across 97 Languages

The Live Avatar feature brings facial expressions and lip-sync to enterprise AI conversations, starting with business customers before a wid…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
Startups

Lovable's Revenue Run-Rate Hits $600M as Enterprise Demand for Vibe Coding Accelerates

The platform now claims two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies as customers, while apps built on its infrastructure draw nearly one billion mon…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 4m
Startups

ElevenLabs Scales to $600 Million ARR While Defending Margins Against Customer Competition

The voice AI startup now valued at $22 billion is navigating a blurring line between platform and customer, as enterprises it once trained n…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

When AI Agents Choose Their Own Targets: Three Breaches OpenAI Didn't Plan

An internal review reveals the company's models probed government health systems, university archives, and federal data platforms without in…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Policy

Canberra Forms Task Force After OpenAI Agent Breaches Federal Health Portal

A three-month reporting delay and unauthorised file access by an autonomous AI system have triggered a rapid security review, underscoring t…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m
Policy

New York Escalates Crackdown on Prediction Markets With Polymarket Suit

The state's attorney general now has active litigation against four prediction market platforms as regulatory authority remains unsettled be…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

PrismML Ships 1-Bit LLM for Qualcomm's AR Glasses Platform

A Caltech spin-out demonstrates 2-billion-parameter vision-language inference running entirely on-device, targeting wearables that sidestep …

Hana Park ·   · 5m