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Speko's pitch: voice AI is fragmented the way text models are, and the right product is no longer a model — it is the layer that picks the model on every call.
Microsoft's first underwater data center worked, then was killed in 2024. The new wave of ocean projects is testing whether the constraint just moves.
The world's biggest humanoid robot maker by sales raised 6.1 billion yuan (about $905 million) in a record-shattering IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market — the city's tech-focused growth board — with a prototype still in development.
At Lawrence Livermore's Advanced Manufacturing Lab, AI now proposes, runs, and adjusts experiments while scientists are away, but the loop is currently in materials science, not cancer biology.
Chief Hoskin's order targets warehouse-sized AI data centers of more than 100 megawatts; the tribe also demands consultation on any hyperscale project on non-tribal land inside the reservation.
404 Media followed a single order from used-book marketplace Biblio to a Las Vegas facility, where workers say books are sliced, scanned, and discarded for training data.
Phillips v. Parlade treats an AI-written order as a 'judicial act' anyway, foreclosing a federal damages suit and pushing accountability to appeal and bar channels.
After inking a licensing deal with Nvidia, the former AI-chip challenger raises $350M at $3.5B, half its 2025 mark, to scale a 'neocloud' — a GPU-rental AI-compute business — to 200+ megawatts by 2027.
Four trading sessions after dropping 14% on its Q2 earnings, Cerebras added 15.67% to $253.29 Monday, as record cloud revenue growth failed to settle doubts about an ongoing operating loss.
GPT-5.6, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, four frontier LLMs, are each trading $100,000 of simulated money on real prices against a fixed rules engine. Twenty days in, the operator says the rulebook is leading the public ledger.
Europe treats the Leipzig airport drone and the Polish incursion as one threat. They're not, and the 'hotch-potch' of EU, NATO and national responses shows it.
Stripe has agreed to pay more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, a service that routes 8 million developers across 400+ AI models, betting the routing tier matters more than any single model.