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As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over "extremely high" water stress (Wall Street Journal)

As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over "extremely high" water stress (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over “extremely high” water stress — Developing-world nations are offering billions of dollars in incentives for U.S. data centers, but locals say the cost is too high

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UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC: UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years — Scientists from King's College London have become the first UK academic research team to gain access to Google's cutting-edge …

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Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW — French company's CEO says its—and Europe's—biggest obstacle to tech independence is the scale of investment necessary

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AtlasEdge raises $1.2bn in debt to scale its European data-centre footprint

AtlasEdge, the European data-centre operator jointly owned by Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, has secured roughly $1.2bn in debt financing to scale its data-centre footprint across the continent, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. The facility is the largest single financing AtlasEdge has raised since its 2021 formation and lands in a stretch of unusually […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Mistral launches Industrial Engineering AI with Airbus, BMW and EDF as headline customers

At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to formally launch “Mistral for Industrial Engineering,” a physics-aware AI stack pitched directly at heavy-industry […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Corporate America enters its AI reckoning

Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. Why it matters: Companies that rushed to embrace AI are now confronting ballooning IT costs, uncertain productivity gains and growing employee skepticism. Driving the news: Microsoft canceled most of its Claude Code licenses, in part over costs, according to The Verge, and Uber's COO said AI costs are getting "harder to justify." An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees. Companies are citing AI's ability to automate jobs as a cause for layoffs, though Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees, told Axios that workforce cuts may simply be "the only lever they can pull" to offset their AI bills. Consumer sentiment around AI is also nosediving, and employees are rebelling against the use of the technology at work. What they're saying: The enterprise is undergoing a "healthy swing" away from AI overuse — or "tokenmaxxing," the push to burn as many AI tokens as possible — Ali Ansari, CEO of model training firm Micro1, told Axios. Ansari hopes this correction will push companies toward more efficient AI use. While the market views these tools as working equally well across the enterprise, Ansari says "the reality of AI right now is that it only works for coding." That disconnect can drive up IT bills without leading to high return on investment in agents, he said. Friction point: Corporate AI adoption is running into four unique problems. Use cases: "Most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company," Sophia Velastegui, CEO of Velastegui Ventures and former chief AI officer at Microsoft told Axios. Instead, they should focus on using AI to drive revenue. Costs: One CTO told Axios that employees were using AI models to check the weather. That gets expensive fast: Enterprise AI plans are not truly 'all yo

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ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure

ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure

The TikTok parent is developing custom data-centre processors on two parallel architectures as Intel and AMD push prices up 10-35% a quarter and US export controls bite. ByteDance is developing its own central processing units to power the data centres behind its expanding AI infrastructure, according to a Reuters report on Thursday citing people familiar […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware

The London-and-San-Francisco startup, formerly Orbital Materials, has closed $50M led by Plural for PFAS-free cooling fluid and modular high-density compute infrastructure. Orbital Industries, the London-and-San-Francisco AI-materials startup formerly known as Orbital Materials, has raised $50m in a Series B led by Plural with participation from Nvidia’s NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound and Fly Ventures. The funding […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military

The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year, roughly $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft software licensing across the entire US military, the intelligence community and the Coast […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals — Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised …

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Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors — TAIPEI — Having already driven massive shortages in memory chips and CPUs, the global artificial intelligence boom is now disrupting …

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Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans — Chinese technology giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure needs …

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Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India (Bloomberg)

Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India — Swiggy Ltd., one of India's top quick commerce firms, plans to restrain spending and focus on profitability while deeper-pocketed rivals Flipkart …

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