The Final Shift

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New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium

New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data centers over 50 megawatts, which the governor's office says will give the state time to come up with the regulations needed to protect residents from rising energy prices a

Jul 14, 2026

The Register

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

Jul 14, 2026

The Register

India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business

Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

Jul 14, 2026

The Register

Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society

PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not the other way around

Jul 14, 2026

The Register

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company

Jul 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

Jul 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary m…

Jul 13, 2026

The Register

The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs

Cheap can be expensive

Jul 13, 2026

Ars Technica

Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Jul 13, 2026

MIT Technology Review

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with…

Jul 13, 2026

The Register

Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP

Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days

Jul 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

Jul 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Jul 13, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating

Software engineering jobs are under threat from AI. Some applicants are fighting back by using AI in the interview process, employing AI assistants that suggest responses on the fly during remote tech…

Jul 13, 2026

Ars Technica

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Jul 13, 2026

Ars Technica

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.

Jul 13, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot. Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics ha…

Jul 13, 2026

The Register

Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets

Lawsuit alleges job-swappers took secrets with them, helped by coaching on how to avoid scrutiny

Jul 13, 2026

The Register

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all

Jul 13, 2026

The Register

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most

Jul 12, 2026

The Register

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

Jul 11, 2026

Politico Technology

‘Not where they hoped it'd be’: Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms

The administration is struggling to balance its desire to dominate AI globally with its ad-hoc security restrictions.

Jul 11, 2026

The Register

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin

Jul 11, 2026

Wired

OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company

Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.

Jul 11, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedb…

Jul 10, 2026

The Verge

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The featu…

Jul 10, 2026

The Verge

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by…

Jul 10, 2026

Wired

Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

The iPhone maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.

Jul 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models …

Jul 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

Jul 10, 2026

The Register

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

Jul 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Jul 10, 2026

MIT Technology Review

The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over conce…

Jul 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

Jul 10, 2026

The Verge

Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions …

Jul 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes…

Jul 9, 2026

The Verge

Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in Apri…

Jul 9, 2026

Wired

OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down

The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

Jul 9, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."

Jul 9, 2026

The Verge

The ChatGPT browser is already dead

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n…

Jul 9, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they…

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI compa…

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

Jul 9, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required electio…

Jul 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."

Jul 9, 2026