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Microsoft’s Next Maia AI Chip Could Arrive in September
A reported September unveiling would push Microsoft deeper into custom silicon as cloud giants race to control AI infrastructure costs and capacity.
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AI Earnings Are Outrunning the Rest of the Market. The Gap May Be About to Narrow.
AI-linked companies are posting substantially stronger earnings growth than the rest of the market, but expectations for the next quarter suggest the extraordinary gap may begin to narrow.
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AI Recommendations Have a Visibility Problem. Better Ratings Aren’t Enough.
A new preprint found that 85.6% of restaurants, cafes and bars in two Bali markets were never recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity. The strongest signals for inclusion were tied to documentation, not star ratings.
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Zuckerberg’s New AI Manifesto Is Really About Who Controls the Stack
Mark Zuckerberg is making openness and individual control central to Meta’s AI doctrine. The harder question is whether an open model can offset the concentration of compute, distribution, identity and data.
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South Australia Is Putting AI Under a Royal Commission
South Australia is launching a royal commission into artificial intelligence, moving the debate beyond individual rules and toward a broader examination of how AI should reshape public life, work and government.
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Data Center Backlash Is Becoming a Financing Risk
Community opposition to data centers is moving from a permitting headache into the financing process, forcing lenders to weigh local political risk alongside power, land and construction economics.
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Data Center Backlash Is Becoming a Financing Risk
Community opposition to data centers is moving from a permitting headache into the financing process, forcing lenders to weigh local political risk alongside power, land and construction economics.
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Amazon’s Texas AI Campus Could Carry a 33 Million-Ton Carbon Permit
Amazon has confirmed plans for a Pecos County data-center campus tied to GW Ranch, whose state permit allows up to 33.2 million tons of greenhouse-gas emissions a year.
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide as ChatGPT Moves Deeper Into Presentations
NextSlide’s team has joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, bringing expertise in turning prompts, notes and documents into polished, editable presentations.
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Microsoft Puts AI Agents to Work in Cyber Defense
Project Perception coordinates red, blue and green AI agents to identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities while keeping human operators in control.