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A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyperscale data centre campus backed by “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary that could reach 9 gigawatts of […]

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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. It is the Japanese conglomerate’s biggest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe. CEO Masayoshi Son and President Emmanuel Macron are expected to formally announce the deal at the Choose France Summit this weekend. The […]

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Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pendant that users could clip to their shirt or wear as a necklace […]

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Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the most prominent names in private market trading, including Hiive, were removed. The original notice, published earlier this month, stated […]

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A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company described it as the first known deployment of humanoid robots in a combat theatre. The tests, backed by the US government and conducted with Ukrainian officials, focused on logistics in […]

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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures. It is among Europe’s largest AI stealth-to-launch rounds in 2026. The founding team comes from DeepMind, Microsoft, and Reka […]

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HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system through a simple HDMI setup. The tablet runs HeartFocus’s AI guidance software alongside the live ultrasound image, delivering real-time probe positioning instructions to help clinicians and trainees capture diagnostic-quality cardiac […]

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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers, and licensed Groq’s hardware technology. The same investors who were cashed out in December have now […]

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Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer service, has also surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue with […]

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Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

In February 2026, AI research lab METR tried to repeat a groundbreaking study measuring how much time developers take to complete tasks with and without AI. It could not. Developers refused to participate because they would not work without AI, even for a limited number of tasks in a research setting. The original 2025 study […]

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