A single hyperscale AI data centre draws roughly 100 to 750 MW of power, uses millions of litres of cooling water daily, and can span thousands of acres, with UN researchers estimating global data cen…
More than 550 US jurisdictions had enacted data center moratoriums or bans by mid-2026, up from roughly 300 in late June, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and MultiState. A m…
On 14 July 2026, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62, making New York the first US state to impose a temporary moratorium on new data centre constructions and expansions of fa…
Virginia, the U.S. data centre capital with nearly 600 facilities and over 4,900 MW operating in Northern Virginia, introduced a first-of-its-kind $0.011 per kilowatt-hour tax on data centre electrici…
More than 550 U.S. jurisdictions have enacted moratoriums or bans on new data center construction, up from roughly 300 in late June 2026, and 75 projects worth about $130 billion were blocked or delay…
AI has industrialized identity fraud, with synthetic identity fraud up eight-fold year-over-year and deepfake attacks occurring every five minutes in 2024, according to LexisNexis and Entrust. Deloitt…
Microsoft made passkeys the default sign-in method in Entra ID in September, forcing millions of tenants to migrate, while Entrust recorded one deepfake identity attack every five minutes—a 2000% surg…
Frontier AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI are pursuing a lock-in strategy to retain users and recoup billions in training costs, evolving from model-level to organizational workflow-level integration, wit…
Terafab, backed by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI with a reported $16.8 billion first phase, is testing a vertically integrated semiconductor fab model that combines logic, memory, and advanced packaging unde…
Terafab, a new Texas chip factory with a roughly 2nm ambition and a $16.8 billion first phase, is targeting space-grade chip manufacturing for orbital AI processing aboard SpaceX satellites, different…
Alphabet Inc. reshuffled Google DeepMind leadership on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as chief executive to become chairman of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist, while Kor…
Jeff Dean left Google on 5 August 2026 after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating the scientific method, backed by Google as a founding investor. Google DeepMin…
Anthropic currently has the most stable leadership among frontier AI labs, with the Amodei siblings still at the helm and low turnover, while OpenAI carries the highest churn exposure ahead of an $852…
On 5 August 2026, Google DeepMind ended its founder-led era as Demis Hassabis stepped back to Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP reporting directly to Sundar Pichai wi…
Platform Engineering 2.0, co-authored by VMware and PlatformEngineering.org, rebuilds the internal developer platform around API-first contracts to serve AI agents alongside human developers, marking …
Most AI models marketed as 'open' are open-weight rather than open-source, and the deciding factor is the licence, according to the Open Source Initiative's OSAID 1.0 standard. Open-weight models like…
Chinese open-weight AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot AI's Kimi now account for a majority of global AI workloads after frontier-grade intelligence costs collapsed by roughly 90 to…
Gartner reports that 89% of enterprise AI agent pilots never reach production and predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, while Deloitte finds 68% of successful proofs of c…
UC Berkeley Haas research in the California Management Review proposes the Agentic Operating Model (AOM), a four-layer framework (Cognitive, Coordination, Control, Governance) to make AI agents govern…
Agent-native architecture treats AI agents as first-class platform users with their own identity, entitlements, rate limits, audit trail, and observable behavior, according to a new analysis. This dif…