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A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre

On a cattle station deep in the Northern Territory outback, roughly 683km south of Darwin, a Singapore-headquartered developer wants to build one of the largest data centres in the southern hemisphere. The plan leans on a resource the region has in abundance and the electricity grid does not reach out to supply: gas. Energy North […]

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UK businesses have tripled their AI adoption. Most are still barely scratching the surface.

Three years ago, roughly one in eight UK businesses with ten or more employees reported using artificial intelligence; today, the Office for National Statistics puts that figure at around one in three, a near-tripling that reflects how quickly AI has moved from specialist tool to mainstream workplace technology. The numbers tell a compelling story of expansion. […]

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Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow

The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard to dress up: free cash flow. An analysis by Reuters, found that combined capital spending across the major cloud operators […]

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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […]

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Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […]

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The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger

On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […]

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Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five […]

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Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters

Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency over raw power. The catch is what is still missing. Cheap, fast, […]

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Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon

The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill. Turning peace into a weapon The heart of the case is fair use, the defence Udio leans […]

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Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3

Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […]

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