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Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI’s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x. Europe has a data centre problem. Electricity grids across the continent are struggling to keep pace with the power demands of the AI boom, planning […]

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All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software

The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect’s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world’s largest industry by value and one of its least automated. A typical building project today involves roughly the same sequence of hand-offs, on-site labour, […]

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Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram

The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta has violated DSA obligations requiring it to prevent underage children from accessing its platforms, a charge previously levelled only at adult content sites. The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta is in breach of the Digital Services Act for failing to keep children off […]

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EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month

The collapse of Tuesday’s trilogue exposes deep divisions over whether high-risk AI systems embedded in consumer products should be exempt from the world’s strictest AI rules After 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday, EU member states and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on proposed changes to the bloc’s landmark AI Act. Talks […]

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OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user growth targets, […]

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Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.

Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit “any lawful government purpose,” the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after more than 580 Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse exactly this kind of arrangement. The agreement provides the […]

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“They stole a charity.” “He didn’t get his way.” The Musk-Altman trial opened with two stories that cannot both be true.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the defendants in this case stole a charity.” That was how Steven Molo, Elon Musk’s lead trial lawyer, opened the most consequential technology trial in a generation on Tuesday morning in an Oakland federal courtroom. Molo told the nine-person advisory jury that without Musk, “there would be […]

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Nvidia is no longer just selling the shovels. Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is the company’s most aggressive move into AI models.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Tuesday, an open-weight multimodal AI model that unifies vision, audio, and language understanding in a single architecture designed to power autonomous AI agents on edge devices. The model has 30 billion parameters but activates only three billion per forward pass through a mixture-of-experts design, a ratio that allows […]

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Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.

Amazon Web Services announced a set of AI-powered business applications on Tuesday that move the company from selling cloud infrastructure to selling the software that runs on it, a strategic shift that puts Amazon in direct competition with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce in the $300 billion software-as-a-service market. The new products, Amazon Connect Decisions for […]

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OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.

Amazon Web Services will begin selling OpenAI’s models to its cloud customers, the company announced on Tuesday, one day after Microsoft agreed to end the exclusive reselling arrangement that had given Azure sole access to OpenAI’s technology for the first three years of the generative AI era. “It’s something that our customers have asked for, […]

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