AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October. The price goes public
AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October. The price goes public

Renting an Nvidia H100 for an hour costs whatever your supplier says it costs. There is no published price. Two companies buying identical capacity can pay very different rates, and neither of them will know. That changes on 5 October. CME Group, the e…

Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year
Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year

Elon Musk expects xAI to increase its nameplate power draw to 10 GW by late 2027, which will increase its performance by orders of magnitude what is available to AI today.

Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%
Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%

Cerebras keeps growing, but misses forecast as hardware sales dip amid explosive increase of AI cloud revenue.

How kids feel about AI, in their own words
How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they were…

Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days
Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days

Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government…

YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool
YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool

Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for…

Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…

rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership
rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arriv…

Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models
Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models

Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google’s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh…

Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. Hi…