63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five
63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now going somewhere other than the big five

Europe’s data centre capacity will reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, a fifth more than last year, and most of the new supply is no longer landing where the industry has always built. Of the roughly 700 megawatts added in the second quarter, only 3…

Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it
Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it

Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone v…

Nebius looks to raise $4.5BN through bond issue

Nebius, the Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure provider, is looking to raise $4.5bn through convertible notes, it said today, as it looks to finance the sizeable cost of compute and data centre build-o…

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the …

Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed
Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and …

Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the co…

Prevalent AI secures $22M growth investment to scale enterprise AI platform

Enterprise AI company Prevalent AI has secured a $22million growth investment from Los Angeles-based Integrity Growth Partners(IGP), marking the first primary capital raised by the company since itsfo…

DeepL strikes deal with US legal AI startup Harvey

DeepL has struck a deal with US AI startup Harvey to carry out legal document translation, as it looks to push further into heavily regulated industries. DeepL, valued at $2bn in 2024, said the deal w…

Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — ‘the bar is completely losing money, ‘ owner admits

An AI-themed bar in Beijing’s Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.

A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’

Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, publishe…