Microsoft is investing $15.2 billion in UAE data centers, promising renewable energy. But the engineering specs reveal the real power behind 99.999% uptime: natural gas turbines. This exposes the tension between AI growth and climate goals.
While the U.S. focuses on AI software, China is flooding the market with physical AI devices. From smart glasses to voice recorders, it’s a practical, and sometimes peculiar, hardware play.
President Donald Trump announced a plan for a federal “one-rule” executive order to regulate artificial intelligence, aiming to override state-level rules. The move is seen as a victory for major tech companies who have lobbied for a clearer, less fragmented regulatory landscape.
Trainline has launched a major suite of AI-driven tools to help passengers navigate winter rail disruption. The update includes predictive delay alerts, automated compensation claims, and an AI travel assistant that’s already handled a million conversations.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says the idea of AI becoming a self-aware threat is “extremely unlikely.” He believes AI will soon generate 90% of the world’s knowledge, but that doesn’t equate to consciousness or a Terminator scenario.
Sari Azout, founder of the curation platform Sublime, is building AI into her product to enhance human creativity. She discusses this approach and her new tool, Podcast Magic, in a new Vergecast episode.
Refly bills itself as an open-source, AI-native platform that merges note-taking, research, and content creation. Getting started involves a waitlist and potentially self-hosting, but the multithreaded AI canvas is surprisingly powerful.
Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill and Melinda French Gates, is raising a $30 million Series A for her AI shopping startup, Phia. The round would value the company at $180 million, with backing from a star-studded list that notably excludes her billionaire parents.
HPE is betting big that its newly combined Aruba and Juniper networking portfolio, packed with AI features, will create a new market leader. CEO Antonio Neri claims massive customer savings and strong partner growth, but integrating a $13.4B acquisition is never simple. The real test is just beginni
Google has begun replacing Assistant with Gemini on smart home devices, but the rollout is a crawl. After an initial wave in late October, most beta testers are still locked out.
