SB Energy’s 8.8GW Mixes Contracts and Construction
SB Energy reports 8.8GW of data-center capacity contracted or under construction in Texas and Ohio, alongside a $430B backlog. Its Ohio arrangement binds a 20-year, 10GW OpenAI deal to Nvidia support of up to $105B.
Nscale’s $103B Backlog Meets the Substation
Nscale’s S-1 reports $103B in total contract value but only $2.6B active in late August 2026. Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85%, forcing public investors to underwrite delivery and financing rather than the headline backlog.
Mac mini (late 2026) review: strong M6 performance, faster storage over the M4, and a small footprint, but pricey storage and memory erode its value proposition
The Mac mini's value proposition has evaporated. — Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals
Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing. It is choosing. Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says beats most closed-source models, with native transparency and use of up to 10 reference images
· QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 …
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff
Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+. — Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog portal
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range …
President Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”
iPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more
The iPhone 18 Pro's little mechanical pupil is irresistible. A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope.
How the Clarity Act, lobbied hard by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was at the center of a protracted fight over the role of digital assets in mainstream finance
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation are “not asking for more laws”, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons”
Don't let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn't a doomer. — Nvidia's CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday.
OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but “fully autonomous RSI is not happening today” and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely
Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply
Ireland's media watchdog has fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google over how the tech company processed location data after complaints …
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident “notification mechanism” to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent met his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in New York — The US and China have agreed to set …
Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks”
Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Today, we are releasing and open-sourcing the MiMo-V2.6 series.
China has made AI a national mission, but workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force the CCP to slow down
A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one. — anxiety about ai in the United States appears to be getting worse.
Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases
Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants' credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out
NYC-based Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M
Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, has raised $30 million in Series B funding, CEO Matt Calvano tells Axios Pro.
Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures
Mithrl, an AI infrastructure company for biopharma, raised a $20 million Series A, CEO Vivek Adarsh tells Axios exclusively.
After hacking incidents and the industry's existential risk warnings, we need a regulatory ban on RSI, as competition drives unchecked autonomous acceleration
There's a chasm right now between how artificial intelligence feels to most of us who use it and how A.I. feels out at the experimental frontier of the technology.
Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person companies in 2025 to escape the bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition
Fed up with the rat race, people are trying their luck by starting solo AI companies—but they face a brutal marketForums:r/technologyForums:r/technology:Burned Out and Unemployed, Young People in Chin...
Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B of securities and €1B in debt to fund its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales yet
SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking the equivalent of more than $11 billion in what would be one of the biggest junk bond deals ever …
A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is …
A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down
On the evening of April 6, an unusual request began making its way from Washington to some of Wall Street's most powerful executives.
Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android integration, coming in October for $899+
Googlebook OS hands-on: It's Android, stupid — Software — Google's main pitch is that Googlebooks should be the laptop of choice for those with Android phones:
Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws
Greater worker representation expected in tech sector when new employment rights come into force next month
The EU proposes rules requiring data centers with a capacity of 500+ kW to disclose their energy and water efficiency using an EU-designed labeling system
The European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy and water …
Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent
Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some users reported …
Nscale's S-1: Microsoft and Anthropic account for 85% of its $103B in total contract value, only $2.6B of contract value was active as of late August, and more
Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence …
Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital, as it weighs a possible IPO
Qupital, an AI-driven trade finance platform focused on cross-border e-commerce, has raised $300m in combined new capital …
UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others
Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venueLinkedIn:Anna JonesLinkedIn:Anna Jones:Congratulations to Unit1 Studio for closing ...
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent
Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July “is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's advanced artificial …
Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, Apple's AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more
Today, I'm talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world's best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg's chief Apple correspondent …
ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as “2.333%” of Cl0p's net worth
The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.
Indeed: US data center roles offer a ~42% pay premium for hourly maintenance and installation work compared with similar jobs at other kinds of businesses
Powering the nation's massive AI build-out requires lots of walking, checking for burning smells and monitoring for bird damage
OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances
Loading... On August 28, we began training a new internal model. In addition to resolving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, this model has now resolved …
China collected ~$32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 82% YoY, as average daily trading values rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy
China's revenue from stamp duty on stock sales jumped more than 80 per cent in the first eight months this year as improved sentiment bolstered trading activities.
Eric Schmidt's Perennial and eight other drone startups will split DOD orders for 60K drones at $5,000 each, after a competition barring Chinese-made parts
Last month, the Pentagon threw up its arms in frustration (metaphorically speaking) when most of the drone startups in competition …
Filing: Oura is seeking to raise up to $2.2B in its US IPO, marketing 50M shares at $40 to $44 each, giving it a $14.1B valuation at the top of its price range
Health and fitness ring-maker Oura Inc. and some of its backers are seeking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in an initial public offering.
An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more
Sources: Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen LLM project, bringing clarity after multiple rounds of reorganization in 2026
Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models …
South Korea reopens a program, unavailable since 2013, letting AI researchers fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs from 2027
Large corporate labs regain access after 14 years, but strict rules leave applications short of available slots
IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of for productive work
Around 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide last year for industrial and professional service use, figures compiled by the International Federation of Robotics showed.
In its first thematic brief, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI urges governments to rein in AI agents before risks are fully understood
The report lands as Beijing and Washington prepare to discuss AI and world leaders gather in New York this week.
Toronto-based Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces patient survival predictions, raised a $25M Series A
Altis Labs, an AI software company for drug development, raised a $25 million Series A, CEO Felix Baldauf-Lenschen tells Axios Pro.
Sources: DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng says training on Huawei chips is one of DeepSeek's biggest bets and Huawei is set to deliver training chips in Q4 or Q1 2027
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a major priority for his company is to use more domestic chips to train its models …
Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, but it costs around twice as much as the M5 Max model without delivering nearly double the performance
At $11,299, the extra performance over the M5 Max model is only worth it for select buyers.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7, which it says is better at verifying its own work and managing longer context, available for $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens
SpaceXAI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies
British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police
The lawsuit alleges AI company failed to notify law enforcement, calls out product safety gaps — British Columbia filed a lawsuit …
AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansions in response to government overtures
Anthropic and OpenAI taking more space in city's already squeezed prime property market — AI heavyweights including Anthropic …
Crypto super PAC Fairshake plans to launch a $30M ad blitz against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race, after the Clarity Act failed
Data Center Watch: 45 US data center projects valued at $68B were blocked or delayed by local opposition from April to June, or 50%+ of large Q2 developments
Opposition to data centers continues to mount in the US. — That's according to research group Data Center Watch …
Google's Googlebook OS, built on Android with a Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS hybrid UI, offers deep Android 17 integration, 10 years of support, and more
There's a good chance that my next laptop will be a Googlebook. If you're an Android user like me, then yours might be too …
Investigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate
Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation
Two models (Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash) — 4k, 8k, 16k, 64k, 128k, and 256k prompts — M5 Ultra vs M3 Ultra vs 5090 — 4/5/6/8-bit quants — I created all the possible charts and visualizations I c...
Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight
Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs
Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+
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An interview with Google SVP of Devices Rick Osterloh on Googlebooks, which he calls “the ultimate focusing move” for Google, a potential Pixel laptop, and more
We break down Google's Googlebook ecosystem …Mark Spoonauer /Tom's Guide:Inside the Googlebook: I asked the head of Android why people will pay a premium for its new MacBook alternative
Googlebook OS hands-on: Android gives it a solid foundation and Pixel-like feel; Gmail and Calendar use Trusted Web Activities via Play Store instead of PWAs
An overwhelming sense of familiarity struck me the first time I used a Googlebook. That was immediately followed by a realization …
Intel closes up 12%, AMD 10%, and Arm 17% on Monday amid investor optimism that Meta's Muse could boost CPU demand; AMD's market cap tops $1T for the first time
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NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed
Googlebooks offer Intel Core Ultra Panther Lake or Qualcomm Snapdragon X/X1 Elite CPUs, 16GB to 64GB of RAM, OLED or LCD touch displays at up to 3K, and more
here are the first Android PCsRobby Payne /Chrome Unboxed:The ASUS Googlebook 14 is official: 2.18 pounds, 3K OLED, and Panther Lake powerScott Webster /AndroidGuys:Googlebook Lineup Spans Five Brands...
MediaTek unveils the Dimensity CX C10 Max, a 3nm TSMC N3 flagship SoC designed for Google's upcoming Googlebook lineup, with an 8-core CPU and an 11-core GPU
Hopefully—Make a Cheap LaptopJay Bonggolto /Android Central:MediaTek's new 3nm chip wants to power fanless, AI-first GooglebooksScott Webster /AndroidGuys:MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max Targets Premium...
Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems
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As Xi Jinping visits DC, Chinese economists warn that Beijing is pouring too many resources into AI, which creates few jobs, and is doing little for the economy
阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文. — “The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.”
Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models
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Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse
OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people's behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers.
Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for frontier AI labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement
There has been, over the last week, what I think is a healthy debate about the philosophy and psychology that undergirds the views …