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IREN's AI revenue target slips into 2027 as it hunts $6B
The bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure player has conditional funding for its first 0.3GW AI program, but a much bigger expansion still needs financing.
CrowdStrike Builds a Kill Switch for AI Agents, Plans to Buy Fiddler AI
CrowdStrike wants security teams to shut down rogue AI agents through a gateway. It also plans to buy Fiddler AI to make autonomous software easier to monitor and audit.
Anthropic's Claude Is Getting Cheaper, and That's a Problem
Claude's prices are dropping, but Anthropic's computing costs grew faster than its sales last quarter, an awkward setup with an IPO on the horizon.
METR's six-month superintelligence warning rests on thin public evidence
A report from AI evaluation group METR suggests superintelligence could be months away, but the claim covers only well-specified tasks and leans partly on redacted evidence.
Anthropic's IPO Valuation Could Fall to $1T After the AI Stock Rout
Investors tell the Wall Street Journal a $1.5 trillion target now looks too rich, even as prediction markets bet on a December listing.
OpenAI Pledges to Pay AI's Power Bill. Who Holds It to That?
OpenAI is promising to cover electricity and water costs and drop the secrecy around its AI campuses, but nobody has said who would enforce it.
Anthropic's FlashProve checks AI output, but costs 70-95x the GPU work
A new verification tool could help prove you got the model you paid for, but its benchmark demands far more compute than normal inference.
Google lets schools opt out of Gemini, but not out of AI Search
Districts get more control over Gemini, yet there's no way to keep Search and drop the AI, and critics say that's pressure by design.
US Voters Back Data Center Curbs in at Least 29 Communities
Ballot results show growing local resistance to the infrastructure behind AI, with power bills, water use and oversight driving the debate.
x402 Gives AI Agents a Way to Pay for Web Data in USDC
Coinbase's x402 protocol revives a dormant web status code so software can pay for APIs and data with stablecoins, no human required.
OpenAI Says Its AI Data Centers Could Help Protect the Grid
The ChatGPT maker is pitching future facilities as grid helpers that cut power demand during emergencies, not just big electricity drains.
Musk Floats Space Data Centers as Election Rattles AI Trade
A Democratic sweep, with a Texas result in particular stoking worries about data center limits, has put pressure on the AI trade, while Elon Musk points to space as an answer.