UAE Pledges 40 Billion Euros of Investment in Germany
The president of the United Arab Emirates arrived in Berlin this week carrying a number the German government was happy to repeat: 40 billion euros. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al…
SpaceX Launches a Classified Space Force Mission From California
At 11:37 a.m. Eastern on September 10, a window opened over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Within it, a Falcon 9 lifted off carrying USSF-153, a classified mission for…
Massachusetts Tells Big Data Centers to Bring Their Own Clean Power
For a few years, cities and states competed to lure data centers with tax breaks, cheap land and fast permits, treating the sprawling buildings as an economic prize. On September…
Microsoft Skips the Grid and Builds Its Own Power
The power deal Microsoft announced on September 9 bypasses the part of the system where data-center projects usually stall. Energy Forge One, a Chevron subsidiary, signed a 20-year power purchase…
Washington Puts $1.9 Billion Behind a Restart of Iowa’s Only Nuclear Plant
Duane Arnold was supposed to be done. The 615-megawatt nuclear plant on the Cedar River in Iowa was shut down in 2020 after a powerful windstorm known as a derecho…
Google Puts Its Largest European AI Bet on Finland
Ruth Porat chose a Helsinki stage for the number: at least 13 billion euros, or about 15.1 billion dollars, over the next two years. The chief investment officer of Google…
Nuclear Startup HGP in Talks to Go Public Through a SPAC at $1.2 Billion
The pitch is unlike anything the nuclear industry has marketed before: take reactors built for the Navy, retire them from military service, and put them to work powering the artificial…
OpenAI Signs Long-Term Compute Deal With Firmus as Malaysian AI Factories Ramp Up
The pattern has repeated across the industry for two years: an American AI lab with enormous computing needs, and a data-center developer willing to build fast where power is cheap.…
GPT-6 Astra Clears All 48 Levels of a CAPTCHA Game, and the Web Wonders What Captchas Are For
The video is unremarkable to watch: a cursor moves across a screen, clicking through a grid of images, checking boxes, waiting for green confirmations. OpenAI researchers released the footage to…
Taiwan Enlists Its Chip Industry Behind Light-Based Interconnects
The announcement had the flavor of an industrial mobilization. Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said Sept. 6 that it was establishing a Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance, bringing together TSMC, ASE,…
