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A developer built GiftHive, a quiz-driven AI gift recommender that ranks real Amazon products by recipient fit rather than keyword match. The site uses a weighted scoring system based on tag overlap, …

Big Tech's climate pledges are being strained by the massive electricity demands of artificial intelligence, with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google backing new gas-fired power projects. Amazon acqui…

Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is targeting an IPO as late as October after confidentially filing with the SEC, with prediction markets pricing a 61% likelihood of an IPO by October 2026 and…

Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot, a Bitcoin mining and AI data center services company, to secure computing power for its AI solutions. The deal aligns with market pricing that …

OpenAI completed a tender offer for roughly $7 billion of shares held by current and former employees, using its own money instead of outside investors, Bloomberg reported on August 10th. The transact…

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Amazon, and other institutions introduced forking-sequences, a method that generates overlapping forecasts for every target date in a single fo…

OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and plans a separate employee share sale at the same $852 billion valuation it set in March, according to The Information, rather than a completed $7…

Columbia Business School economist Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh warns that without AI data centre investment, the US economy would already be in a recession, estimating AI infrastructure spending could aver…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released a draft white paper on Aug. 6 proposing to remove tax incentives for data center construction and impose a new excise t…

An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer, Ida Huddleston, and her family rejected a $26 million offer from an unnamed tech company to buy 534 acres of their 1,200-acre farm in Mason County for a data center pro…

An engineer built JSTJO, an AI interface that displays a visible water counter that depletes with each query, to make the hidden environmental cost of AI tangible. The project highlights that a single…

An Australian AI company employee named Andrew used the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, powered by Anthropic's Claude, to hack his local gym's website and book a spot in a class by cancelling other peo…

More than 500 US towns and counties have enacted bans or restrictions on new data center development, according to an analysis by The Information, with opposition accelerating this summer. The resista…

Wall Street's expected 2026 capital spending by major cloud providers has surged 71% to $789 billion, up from $460 billion six months ago, driven by AI infrastructure demand. Goldman Sachs estimates h…

Hyperscalers such as Google (TPUs) and Amazon (Trainium) dominate AI infrastructure through vertical integration, controlling chips, data centers, and APIs, which creates a feedback loop that lets the…

JPMorgan lifted its 2026 S&P 500 price target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing expectations that AI monetization will accelerate faster than spending. The bank's strategists, led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, p…

Apollo Global and Blackstone are partnering with Nvidia on a $500 billion financing package to accelerate AI infrastructure development, the Financial Times reported on August 10, 2026. The deal, amon…

Amazon's planned Pecos County, Texas AI data center could be powered by a natural gas facility permitted to emit up to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, potentially making it the largest sin…

The Amazfit Active Max Smart Watch has dropped to $118.99 at Amazon, down from its $169.99 RRP, a 30% discount saving $51, and is reported to be the best deal ever on the watch. The watch offers offli…

Amazon has dropped the price of Beatbot's iSkim Cordless Robotic Pool Skimmer to $319, a 32% markdown of $180 off its $499 list price, matching the second-lowest price tracked since its May launch and…