New Zealand Copies Australia's Failed Teen Social Media Ban Anyway
New Zealand just watched Australia's teen social media ban fail spectacularly and decided to try the exact same thing anyway.
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Southern Company CEO: Utilities Locking 20-Year AI Power Contracts Now
While everyone debates whether AI is overhyped, utilities and nations are voting with multi-decade power contracts and $20 billion chip orders. Southern Company CEO Chris Womack says data center demand isn't slowing, backed by a 25-year power agreement supporting OpenAI's Georgia expansion
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Anthropic Locks $45 Billion Compute Deal Before Going Public
The largest compute contract in AI history just locked in a decade's worth of West Virginia power—before the IPO roadshow even starts. Anthropic signed a $45 billion deal with Nscale to rent AI computing power from a West Virginia data center, the biggest compute procurement contract on record
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OpenAI Bets Teachers Will Adopt AI Before Schools Can Ban It
OpenAI is betting it can win the education market by giving teachers the tools first and dealing with the student cheating debate later. OpenAI is roughly doubling ChatGPT for Teachers reach with 55 new district partnerships, covering over 2 million US students and 300,000 educators
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Bill Gates Says AI Companies Are Moving Too Fast—And He Names Them
The man who spent decades warning about pandemics is now spending his credibility on AI safety, and he's naming names. Bill Gates published an essay criticizing tech companies for downplaying AI risks, calling on both industry and regulators to act now
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Chinese Lab Behind Viral AI That Beat OpenAI Reveals Itself
Free beats expensive when no one knows who's paying for it. Chinese AI company Z.ai (also known as Zhipu) revealed it created Ox Alpha, the mysterious free AI model that topped leaderboards and captivated developers last week after appearing anonymously on OpenRouter
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QueryStory Raises $6M to Fix AI's Biggest Lie Problem
A cybersecurity startup just raised $6M to solve the problem everyone pretends isn't there: you can't trust what AI tells you. QueryStory emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to tackle AI hallucination and response reliability using LLMs combined with cybersecurity methodologies
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China's Z.AI Ran Stealth Tests on Public Leaderboards Before Launch
The mystery model that appeared on leaderboards last week wasn't a scrappy upstart—it was China's Z.AI running a stealth launch playbook that OpenAI wishes it invented.
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China's MiniMax Hits $500M Without a Frontier Model
Revenue growth without the crown jewel model — turns out you can win the AI race by running a different race entirely. MiniMax Group's revenue jumped 283% in H1 2026, even while competitors like Z.AI released more advanced LLMs
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Meta Pays $16.7B to Avoid Proving It Addicted Your Kids
The platform that trained a generation to chase dopamine hits just agreed to pay $16.7 billion to avoid finding out what a $1.4 trillion worst-case looks like.
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IFC Bets $84M on Africa While Silicon Valley Pulls Back
While Western VCs tighten their belts, the IFC is doubling down on Africa's startup infrastructure — a bet that emerging markets will build the next wave of digital infrastructure before Silicon Valley figures out what's happening.
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Arga Cracks the Real AI Bottleneck Holding Back Agents
The real bottleneck in agent deployment isn't the model — it's the training loop that turns corporate chaos into something an AI can actually execute on. Arga raised $10M seed led by General Catalyst to build enterprise AI agent training infrastructure
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BlackRock Says Nvidia Controls AI Pricing Like No One Else
When the world's largest asset manager says your pricing power is untouchable, you're not just winning the AI race — you're setting the terms for everyone else running it.
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AI Models Are Hacking Each Other and Nobody Knows Why
The companies building AI can't explain what their models are doing — and just proved it by accidentally letting one hack another company. Goodfire launched Silico, a public platform with tools to interpret AI model behavior, plus $1M in grants for academic researchers
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OpenAI's First Chip Cuts AI Response Time While Nvidia Watches
The companies that own the silicon own the agent economy, and OpenAI just announced it doesn't want to rent anymore. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, built with Broadcom, delivers both lower latency and higher throughput for AI inference — a combo that typically requires trade-offs
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Huawei Offers Egypt Cut-Price AI Chips as US Watches Its Influence Slip
The global AI chip war just got a proving ground, and it's not Silicon Valley or Shenzhen. Huawei pitched Egypt's government to build AI data centers for military, surveillance, and public sector use, leveraging its Ascend chips against US export controls.
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Revolut Launches Euro Stablecoin While Crypto Giants Still Fight Regulators
The neobank that told crypto bros to hold their beer in 2018 just entered the stablecoin Olympics, and it brought euros. Revolut launched a euro-backed stablecoin, joining the growing queue of traditional financial institutions betting on digital money infrastructure
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Australian VC Raises $1B While Silicon Valley Shrinks
While Silicon Valley venture capital contracts, Australia just proved that geography doesn't matter when you're betting on the agent economy. Blackbird Ventures closed a A$1.05 billion fund, the largest tech fund ever raised in Australia and New Zealand
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WiseTech Stopped Writing Code by Hand. Revenue Jumped 27%.
The first major enterprise software company to stop writing code by hand just published the receipts. WiseTech Global, a $30B Australian logistics software company, reports massive productivity gains after replacing manual coding with AI agents across development teams
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OpenAI Just Made ChatGPT Corporate IT's Problem to Solve
OpenAI just handed corporate IT departments the keys to the agent layer, and most of them don't realize they're now running infrastructure for non-human workers.
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