Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion and Pivots to Truckable AI Factories
Crusoe began in 2018 by mining bitcoin with natural gas that would otherwise have been flared into the air. On September 17, the company that grew out of that trick…
SpaceX Sets September 28 as Earliest Date for Starship’s Fourteenth Flight
SpaceX has put a new date on the calendar for Starship’s next attempt. The company said on September 17 that it is planning the fourteenth flight of the giant rocket…
RWE and Oracle Sign a 433-Megawatt Wind Power Deal for Texas
A German energy company and a cloud giant tied themselves together over Texas wind. RWE announced on September 17 that it had signed a virtual power purchase agreement with Oracle…
Anthropic and OpenAI Seek Smaller Data Center Deals to Speed Up Compute
The hunt for computing power has a new shape. Anthropic and OpenAI, two of the companies that signed the largest data center contracts of the past year, are now shopping…
Amazon Takes Generac Warrants in a Bet on Backup Power
The filing appeared on the evening of September 16, after the market had closed. Generac Holdings, the Wisconsin company that built its name selling standby generators to homeowners, disclosed that…
OpenAI Discloses Six More Cases of Troubling Model Behavior
The confession was buried in a blog post, but it was not hard to find. On September 17, OpenAI said that beyond the recent Hugging Face incident, it had found…
Tesla’s Texas Solar Plant Clears an Early Hurdle; Roadster Set for October
A school board in Fort Bend County, Texas, voted on September 16 to advance Tesla’s application for a 10-billion-dollar solar cell factory, pushing the project past its first local approval.…
Microsoft Raises Its Dividend as Azure Sales Top $100 Billion
Microsoft raised its quarterly dividend by 8 percent to 98 cents a share on September 15, a quiet increase that told investors the company’s cash machine is still turning. Buried…
Meta Lines Up TSMC to Build Its Next AI Chip and Bundles Subscriptions
The chip has a code name and a deadline. Meta plans to deploy a new generation of self-developed AI chips in the first half of 2027, fabricated by TSMC, according…
SoftBank’s Energy Arm Prepares a Japan Share Sale Ahead of a US Listing
The filing landed with Japan’s finance ministry with little fanfare, but it sketched a piece of SoftBank’s sprawling AI strategy. SB Energy, the data center and energy infrastructure company controlled…
