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OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match

Building a data centre used to be a quiet affair. Not any more. OpenAI’s plan for a giant new site in Georgia arrives with a charm offensive attached, because the industry has learned that the hard part is no longer the concrete. It is the neighbours. The company will spend tens of billions of dollars […]

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AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year earlier. One sector explains most of it. Digital […]

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Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn

Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing to be. Now Khosla Ventures is raising money to do it again, at a scale it has never tried. The firm is in talks to gather as much as $5.5bn across a new […]

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Google now lets you sign in to your account with a selfie video

Everyone has lost access to something. A phone, a password, a recovery code sent to a dead email. Google’s answer, announced on Thursday, is your face. The company is adding a selfie video as a way to sign in, it said in a blog post. Setting it up takes a short online process with a […]

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White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on American models to do it. Kratsios directs the White House Office of Science and […]

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Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first Prime Video redesign, and studios may end up paying for it

Jeff Bezos has found a new place to advertise Amazon’s artificial intelligence, and it happens to be the screen where you were hoping to watch a film. Amazon’s executive chairman is pushing a redesign of Prime Video, known internally as Lighthouse, meant to turn the streaming service into a high-profile showcase for the hundreds of […]

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Intel and AMD lock Chinese data centres into multi-year CPU deals as prices surge

Server processors were meant to be the boring corner of the AI boom. The exotic money went to graphics accelerators, while the central processing units sitting beside them were treated as a solved problem, cheap, plentiful, and interchangeable. That assumption is coming apart in China. Intel and AMD have signed longer-term supply commitments with Chinese […]

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Adecco’s CEO says AI is changing jobs, not destroying them

Denis Machuel runs the world’s largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty the offices. “AI is bringing a massive evolution in the world of work, but […]

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Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%

Sundar Pichai spent Alphabet’s Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether the company had quietly ceded the frontier to OpenAI and Anthropic. “We’ve had clearly frontier […]

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IBM cuts full-year sales outlook after mainframe demand drops 42 percent in Q2

IBM cut its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday after reporting a sharp drop in demand for its mainframe business, lowering its revenue growth target to four to five percent from a prior forecast of more than five percent. The company also trimmed its software unit guidance, with CFO Jim Kavanaugh telling Bloomberg that annual software […]

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