Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data centre, its first in Canada
Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data centre, its first in Canada

Meta will build its first data centre in Canada, a 1-gigawatt campus in central Alberta that the company values at C$13 billion (about US$9 billion), extending the same relentless build-out that produced its $200 billion Hyperion campus in Louisiana. T…

Chip testing startup QuantumDiamonds raises €15M in equity funding

A German startup spun out of a famed Munich research university whose tech helps semiconductor firms test out products and find defects has raised €15m in equity funding. The new equity funding in Q…

NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts
NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts

NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents name one adversary outright: Russia. German tabloid BI…

‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating
‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating

An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100. When he switched the final to an in-person test, th…

AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today
AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today

A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fr…

Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell
Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell

Google’s SynthID watermarking system scored its first high-profile real-world win this week after Snopes used it to debunk an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell that had gone viral on Reddit and X. The image, which appeared to show McConnell…

HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days
HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days

HubSpot has scrapped a plan to use its customers’ data for a new AI feature, just four days after announcing it. The CRM firm changed its terms on 1 July to pool customer data, including contact and employer details, for a tool that finds sales leads, …

Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea
Squeezed on land, Samsung wants to put data centres out to sea

As data centres run into unhappy neighbours and water limits on land, Samsung wants to float them offshore. Samsung Heavy Industries plans to launch its first floating data centre by 2028, Seoul Economic Daily reported. It would be a purpose-built barg…

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it
Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm…

ChatGPT Live could make talking to AI feel straight out of the movies

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new voice model for ChatGPT Voice that can listen and speak at the same time to make AI conversations feel faster and more natural.