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Today’s highlights include a 14-hour global outage at Ingram Micro disrupting services, Meta and Google advancing privacy-based age verification in Europe, and Microsoft’s plan to remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11. Additionally, the EU moves forward with AI regulations, and TSMC delays its Japan chip plant to bolster U.S. expansion efforts.
Today’s tech highlights include Hived’s $42 million funding to expand AI-powered electric parcel delivery in the UK, Meta’s AI superintelligence lab hiring Ilya Sutskever, and Tesla’s Q2 deliveries dropping 14% amid sales challenges. Additionally, researchers expose “potemkin understanding” in large language models, questioning their true conceptual grasp.
OpenAI’s significant infrastructure expansion with a 4.5 GW power lease from Oracle highlights the soaring energy demands of AI development, amidst Microsoft’s major layoffs affecting 9,000 employees and strategic shifts, and Cloudflare’s new AI data scraping blocks to protect content rights. Meanwhile, the UK considers updating submarine cable laws to counter rising cyber and sabotage threats.
Today’s top news highlights include Cloudflare’s launch of a pay-per-crawl marketplace to monetize AI web scraping, Meta’s aggressive AI talent recruitment offering up to $300 million per researcher, and NOAA’s shutdown of the crucial DMSP satellite program risking vital hurricane and polar ice data. Additionally, significant industry shifts include EU’s €20 billion fund for AI gigafactories and Figma’s NYSE IPO filing amid rising AI and R&D costs.
Deno’s legal battle over the “JavaScript” trademark was dismissed, raising the possibility of the language becoming public domain. Meanwhile, Meta hires top AI researchers from OpenAI, and Reddit sues Anthropic over data scraping while launching its own AI platform. Tesla achieves its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery, highlighting rapid progress in driverless tech.
Today’s top highlights include Meta’s $29 billion AI data center funding push, SteamOS outperforming Windows 11 in gaming on Lenovo devices, and US AI data centers threatening grid capacity with projected 70% power consumption by 2035. Additionally, Germany investigates US hyperscalers’ dominance, and Denmark proposes rights over body features to combat deepfakes.