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Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan: Anthropic has launched an ambitious new data center partnership with the UK-based Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the US. Read More

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product: Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google's Genie because creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore. Read More

Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers: The Massachusetts-based startup is taking tech developed for long distance transmissions lines to solve an emerging problem for data center designers. Read More

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The global race for the AI app layer is still on: The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models, at least in funding. But the picture is different for the application layer, global VC firm Accel highlighted in its 2025 Globalscape report. Read More

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar: Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks. Read More

SoftBank's Nvidia sale rattles market, raises questions: Wall Street can't help but wonder: does Son see something right now that others do not? Read More

Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch again due to solar storms: The same solar activity that's been lighting up the night sky in North America is causing this particular delay. Read More

Red Bull Racing's secret weapon? An engineer who treats workflows like lap times: Lauren Mekies spent much of his career in the engineering trenches. His approach to winning reflects that technical background, too. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Self-driving trucks startup Einride plans to go public via a SPAC: The Swedish startup just raised $100 million from investors last month. Read More