Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal
Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colo…

Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don’t want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood

According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of last year, almost half of all queried Americans said they would oppose an AI data center being built near their community.

AI consulting startup co-founded by DeepMind scientist lands $22.75M Series A

An AI consulting-cum-recruitment startup co-founded by a Google DeepMind scientist and a SoftBank executive has raised $22.75m, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. The Series A founding round i…

Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring
Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General C…

Google is working on a “24/7 personal agent” that sounds a lot like its answer to OpenClaw

Google is building an AI agent codenamed Remy inside its Gemini app, as the company looks to compete in a fast-moving market already claimed by OpenClaw, Meta, and Anthropic.

Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre
Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre

The Beacon Point lease, anchored by an unnamed investment-grade tenant, lifts Hut 8’s contracted AI capacity to 597 MW and $16.8bn in base-term value. The Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-landlord pivot is now substantially complete. There is a particular kind of c…

Peter Sarlin’s AI startup Qutwo hits €325M valuation months after launch

A Finnish AI startup, co-founded by an executive whose last startup was sold to US semiconductor giant AMD, has raised €25m in an angel round, giving it a €325m valuation, just months after its launch…

Denmark presses pause on new data center grid connections as total requests hit 60 GW — Nordic nation is the latest to put the brakes on AI buildouts

Denmark’s Energinet grid operator has pressed pause on new connection requests in the country as potential new data centers and other installations put total demands of up to 60 GW on its docket.

Microsoft says ‘Transformation Paradox’ holding back AI adoption in the workplace — 45% of respondents say it’s safer to focus on current goals, rather than AI innovation

Microsoft’s study says that it’s not just enough to give employees access to AI tools for them to make the most of it. Instead, they should revamp their processes and systems to integrate AI use from the top-down.

China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks
China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

What started in mid-April as a $300m raise at a $10bn valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent talking, is now an FT-reported deal at $45bn led by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund. The strategic logic has changed substantially. There is…