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440 stories · page 42 of 49Power, not chips, became AI's bottleneck, and the money knows it
$1.75 billion. That's what National Grid (a major utility) is putting into a power developer building capacity right next to AI data centers. The goal is to skip the slow wait for grid interconnection.
Read →Anthropic launched a science mode and is handing out research credits
Claude now conducts several agents across 60+ scientific databases - a dedicated science mode built on the lab's own infrastructure. Plus grants in compute credits for research projects.
Read →A Chinese lab launched a free agentic coding environment
Z.ai (a Chinese AI lab, formerly Zhipu) launched ZCode - a free agentic development environment built on their own GLM-5.2 model, for all platforms. The target is clear: Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
Read →Bloomberg reports Meta will sell compute power. Meta declined to comment.
Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources, that Meta is preparing a cloud business and will rent out its surplus AI accelerators and hosted models. Meta declined to comment, and there's no official announcement. Neocloud stocks (companies that rent out GPUs) fell the day of the report, Meta went up. We wrote it up as sales already under way. Mistake.
Read →A SharePoint hole is being actively exploited, and Microsoft had underrated it
Attackers are already using a hole in on-premises SharePoint (Microsoft's document software) - in real attacks, not in theory. CISA added it to the list of actively exploited vulnerabilities and set a patching deadline. Microsoft had rated it as unlikely to be attacked.
Read →They cloned her voice, then someone's claims hit her recordings
According to Music Business Worldwide, which retells The Verge, folk singer Murphy Campbell finds AI 'covers' of her songs on her own Spotify profile, uploaded without her consent. She suspects her voice was cloned from her YouTube videos. Then, in a separate incident, copyright claims were filed against her real videos through the distributor Vydia. The flip side of voice technology.
Read →The Suno case is not going to a merits hearing. We got it wrong.
The court docket shows a procedural conference over discovery disputes - the exchange of documents between the parties. Not a hearing on 'fair use'. The schedule has been pushed back. On July 3 we wrote something different. I'm correcting it here, now.
Read →The US labor market cooled, and everyone will go looking for AI in the numbers
The June US jobs report shows 57 thousand new jobs - sharply below the roughly 115 thousand expected. The temptation is to blame AI. Except the BLS report (the US Bureau of Labor Statistics) doesn't say that.
Read →The humanoid is back at BMW's plant, this time with the heavy work
Figure 03 walked into BMW's plant in Spartanburg. Its predecessor helped build 30,000 cars. The new one doesn't just hand over parts - it pulls a cart and sequences components for the assembly line.
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