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.
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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…
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.

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…
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’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.
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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.
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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…