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Water UK says AI data centre plans ignore where the water comes from

Britain wants to triple its data centre capacity by 2030. The trade body for the country’s water companies has told ministers there is not enough water to run them. Water UK, which represents England’s water suppliers, told MPs this week that the government’s growth agenda barely accounts for what those machines will drink. Data centres […]

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Netflix wants ‘AI fluency’ from everyone, but craft is still scarce

When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer’s chief product and technology officer described “AI fluency” as an aspiration for every employee, a skill she wants spread across […]

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SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […]

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Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first national day of action against the industry pouring the concrete for artificial intelligence. The rallies were coordinated […]

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Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap

ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML […]

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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […]

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Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him

Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week. “But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […]

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Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI

Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech […]

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Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions

Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 […]

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Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on

Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […]

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