Hut 8 is leasing a massive data center campus in Louisiana to AI cloud firm Fluidstack in a deal valued at up to $17.7 billion. The partnership with Anthropic and Google-backed Fluidstack signals a major pivot for the former cryptominer into building AI infrastructure at a gigawatt scale.
A major internal software leak suggests Apple is developing a new iMac Pro with an M5 Max chip, its first all-in-one workstation since 2017. The leak also details a slew of other future products, including an M6 MacBook Pro and a foldable iPhone targeting late 2026.
Opengear, a Digi International company, has announced it has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance. The company says these certifications are a key part of doing the “heavy lifting” on security for its channel partners.
A report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity signals a major shift. Companies are poised to use AI not just for productivity, but as a strategic lever for workforce restructuring, with significant layoffs already underway.
OpenAI just supercharged its image generator inside ChatGPT. The new model is up to four times faster and promises much more reliable results, but it’s not perfect.
Mozilla is signaling a major shift, with its new CEO planning to evolve Firefox into an AI-powered browser over the next three years. The promise of optional features isn’t calming longtime users who see it as bloat and a betrayal of the browser’s core values.
Japan’s largest airline is modifying passenger jets to monitor climate change. ANA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have moved from testing to operational use of sensors on a Boeing 737. The goal is to get more detailed measurements of carbon dioxide and other gases.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says the current frenzy around AI startup funding is creating unsustainable “bubbles.” He points to companies raising at “tens of billions” valuations with little to show, predicting a market correction is on the way.
Two former Palantir employees have raised a $20 million Series A for their London-based startup, Ankar. They’re using AI to streamline the notoriously slow and manual patent filing process, with early customers like L’Oréal reporting big productivity gains.
Nvidia has acquired SchedMD, the company behind the open-source Slurm workload manager critical for AI and HPC clusters. The move is seen as a play to bolster its “AI factory” strategy, but it’s raising concerns based on Nvidia’s handling of a previous software buy, Bright Computing, in 2022.
