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 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.
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.
A new report highlights the enterprise push and pull for Apple in 2026. IT leaders praise the power of Apple Silicon but are waiting for a more compelling AI story and less friction in critical management tools like Platform SSO.
New research from digital security firm Aura reveals a troubling pattern in how children interact with AI companions. The data shows a significant portion of minors are engaging in violent, and often sexually violent, roleplay scenarios with chatbots, with engagement peaking at just 11 years old.
Mindoo has secured €5 million in Seed funding to scale its platform for AI agentic workflows in healthcare. The funding round was led by 6DC and Syndicate One. The company is already deployed in hospitals in Belgium and Germany.
