Meta and BlackRock have formed a $14bn joint venture to build an AI data centre in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock funds owning 80% and Meta owning 20%. Meta will remain the sole tenant and constructio…
Mate Security has closed a $35 million Series A led by Canaan Partners with Insight Partners, Team8, and M12, bringing total funding to more than $50 million less than a year after emerging from steal…
London-based proptech startup Dwelly has raised $170mn in a Series B round, split between $95mn of equity and a $75mn debt facility, to acquire independent lettings agencies and migrate them onto an A…
New research from Forrester, Gartner, and Deloitte shows most enterprise AI spend remains stuck in pre-production pilots, with Gartner predicting 60% of AI projects will be abandoned through 2026 due …
AI-powered sales agents from Microsoft, HubSpot, and other vendors are enabling companies to automate personalized outreach at scale, but a Belkins analysis of 7.5 million cold emails sent in 2025 fou…
Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law, but the electricity the industry is meant to supply …
China's commerce ministry accused the United States of 'AI hegemonism' on Monday and threatened countermeasures, escalating a dispute that began with allegations of AI model distillation by Chinese fi…
Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8's two 15-year leases at the Beacon Point data center campus in Texas, a deal that could be worth up to $50bn over its full life, the Financial Times reported …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet Senator Mark Warner, vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, this week after an OpenAI autonomous agent built on its GPT-5.6 model …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published the company's formal position on open-weights models Sunday, stating that Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models and that open-weights mode…
Meta is rolling out Meta AI to Threads direct messages globally starting today, allowing all users to privately chat with the AI, share posts, images, links, and videos, and ask follow-up questions. T…
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI to lease a 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported. The guarantee is nee…
AI vendors are shifting from per-seat subscriptions to token consumption pricing, making enterprise AI bills less predictable and likely to spike. AI PCs with neural processing units running local mod…
Orange and Morrison announced an exclusivity agreement to create a jointly controlled data centre company in France with a €3 billion investment programme targeting 400 megawatts of capacity, nearly t…
Fujifilm is raising prices on five camera models from September 1, with the X100 VI increasing €200 to €1,999 and the GFX100 II jumping €500 to €8,499, due to rising DRAM and component costs driven by…
Microsoft announced Project Perception, an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents that enters public preview on August 3. Microsoft's custom MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model scores 96…
Young adults are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to script in-person conversations, including dating lines and party icebreakers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Clinical psychologist Ashleigh Go…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok after becoming addicted to the app while studying it for the development of Sora, OpenAI's AI-generated video social network that was scrapped in March. Al…
Nvidia has made a substantial investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after he left OpenAI, which has no product, no revenue, and no plans to sell anything soo…
Anthropic was the only major AI company that did not sign an open letter defending open-weight AI, drawing criticism from Silicon Valley figures including David Sacks and Bill Gurley. The company's re…