A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.
A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyper…

SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.
SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. It is the Japanese conglomerate’s biggest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe. CEO Masayoshi Son and President Emmanuel Macron a…

NBA will put AI in charge to tackle bad ref calls and fan fury

Bad referee calls have become one of the NBA’s most frustrating recurring storylines, especially during the playoffs when every possession gets dissected online within seconds. Now, the league appears ready to lean much harder into artificial intellige…

Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.
Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pe…

Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.
Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the mos…

A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.
A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company described it as the first known deployment of humanoid robots in a combat theatre. The tests, …

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mytho…

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable
HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system through a simple HDMI setup. The tablet runs HeartFocus’s …

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.
Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers…