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Micron Technology and Anthropic have signed a strategic agreement covering memory and storage architecture design, long-term supply commitments, a strategic investment, and enterprise deployment of Claude across Micron’s operations. The agreement, announced June 22 and detailed further in early July, is structured around four pillars. First, the two companies will collaborate on memory and storage […]

Meta has introduced a subscription requirement for expanded access to advanced features on its smart glasses, marking the latest step in a broader industry push toward recurring revenue from hardware devices. The company now notes in its help pages that users will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock “expanded access” to some features […]

Google’s annual electricity consumption rose by 37 percent in 2025, the largest single-year increase in the company’s history, driven by an AI infrastructure buildout that the company itself acknowledges is “accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing.” The figures come from Google’s 2026 Environmental Report, published June 30. Google’s data centers consumed 42 million megawatt-hours […]

Palantir chief executive Alex Karp launched a blistering attack on frontier AI labs during a CNBC Squawk Box appearance on July 1, accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of extracting value from enterprise customers through token-based pricing while delivering little return. “I am paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and […]

Anthropic has begun developing its own proprietary AI chip and held exploratory talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, according to three people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The project remains at an early conceptual stage. Anthropic is still determining what the chip should do, how powerful it should be, how it […]

A two-year-old nuclear startup has done something no American company has done before: run an Nvidia AI chip directly off a compact nuclear reactor. Valar Atomics Inc. demonstrated its Ward 250 microreactor producing live power for Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture on July 1, 2026, at a small data center in Utah. The milestone marks the first […]

The United Nations’ first independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence warns that increasingly powerful AI systems are evolving faster than regulators and researchers can understand or govern, creating risks that could have catastrophic consequences if left unchecked. The preliminary report, released July 1 by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, represents the […]

The United Nations’ first independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence warns that increasingly powerful AI systems are evolving faster than regulators and researchers can understand or govern, creating risks that could have catastrophic consequences if left unchecked. The preliminary report, released July 1 by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, represents the […]

OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a stake of up to 5 percent in the company, according to a Financial Times report, in what would be an unprecedented arrangement between a frontier AI lab and the state that regulates it. The stake, valued at approximately $42.6 billion (roughly 27 billion pounds) based on OpenAI’s […]

Brave Software has launched Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its privacy-focused browser that removes the accumulated extras of years of feature expansion, and charges $59.99 (approximately 48 pounds) for the privilege of having less. The browser is an official response to long-running user complaints that Brave had become bloated. Originally built as a lean, […]