Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start
Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the…
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India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."
UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade
UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China t…
Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses
Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary surv…
Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes
Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake?…
The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor
Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting with software, yet the processor at the center…
Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real
Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was …
A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries
A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. Th…
Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn
Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putti…
Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.
The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing featur…
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice
Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory.…
Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies
Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which its own models escaped their test environments and attacked…
The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time
Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commi…
An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot
An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify si…
OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”
OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone …
Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda
Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journ…
Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma
Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.
Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year
Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.
Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund
The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around $1 billion.
a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund
Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new funds to invest in startups.
A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms
Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.