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The Final Shift

Daily Reports on Artificial Intelligence · Data Centers · Regulation

Lead Story · The Guardian Technology

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil’s UK emissions, analysis has revealed. Experts have said this demonstrates the “serious threat” datacentres pose to the UK’s legally binding climate goals. Continue reading...

Aug 25, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sa

Aug 24, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fl

Aug 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Aug 21, 2026

Semafor Technology

Waymo builds custom chip for robotaxi fleet

In a blog post Thursday, the Alphabet-owned company revealed that it designed a custom computer chip that quickly crunches raw data coming from a car’s cameras, lidar, and radar.

Aug 21, 2026