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Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real

Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. […]

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London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind

Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage during the procedure, helping the team identify nerves and blood vessels near the tumour, and joins […]

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Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens

Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something there is worth preserving. He names childcare and jury service as roles humans are […]

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Microsoft employees built their own pay spreadsheet, and it shows two companies

Around 600 Microsoft employees have entered their pay into a crowdsourced spreadsheet circulating internally, and the resulting picture is of a company that now compensates two quite different populations. Base salaries run from $111,000 at level 59 to $280,000 at level 67, with Cloud and AI roles reaching $450,000, which is the kind of information […]

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Apple gave Tim Cook a farewell party a week before Ternus takes over

Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people attended, almost all of them Apple employees, at the Caffè Macs cafeteria on the company’s Cupertino campus. OneRepublic played. Aaron Tilley reported the evening for The Information, citing a person who was there. The […]

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A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026

One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patient’s arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working carefully takes roughly five minutes, by the company’s own reckoning. Nothing about the […]

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Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence

Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely at the country’s scramble to bundle mobile, broadband, and television into a single monthly bill. The German operator confirmed on Monday that its local arm, […]

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A Beijing bar swapped free Wi-Fi for free DeepSeek tokens

In Beijing’s Zhongguancun district, the dense grid of universities and start-ups that likes to bill itself as China’s Silicon Valley, a small bar has found a neat way to distil the country’s artificial-intelligence boom into something you can actually drink. The AGI Bar, opened last summer by an independent developer named Song De, does not […]

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AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it

The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine-assisted summer hit has already reached the Billboard Hot 100. Generative music has arrived in the mainstream, and the artists using it have largely stopped pretending otherwise. Tyga’s […]

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Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet […]

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