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Energy🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Amazon to fund 960-MW nuclear project at retired Indiana coal site

Enterprise Software🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026 Altman tells OpenAI staff there are three endgames for AI: an IAEA for AI, a merger of the labs, or one firm that "melts everyone else's GPUs"

Semiconductors🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 Germany woos Nvidia at Berlin summit, but local startups still lean on foreign capital

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026 OpenAI races to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic IPO

Health🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Hologic to acquire Spain's Reveal Genomics to widen breast-cancer diagnostics

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Inside Prometheus: Meta trained Muse Wonder on phase one of its gigawatt Ohio supercluster, now scaling towards ~1M GPUs

🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Disney to hire 60 Character.AI staff for ~$60M a year after bankruptcy

Consumer Electronics🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Apple buys Swiss AI audio startup Samplab to sharpen Logic Pro

Media🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026 Banks and retailers start blocking AI shopping agents, including Meta's Muse

Hosting🇨🇦Oct 19, 2026 River threads jump to 121,804 as Shopify's AI agent floods its Slack

Space🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Anthropic pledges 5% of shares to public benefit fund as it eyes record IPO

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 Anthropic's AI agents outwork staff 6-to-1 as junior tech hiring collapses

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 OpenCode breach drains users' AI keys as platforms holding customer credentials come under attack

Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 18, 2026 OpenAI's ad run-rate hits $1B as it poaches Meta talent, chases $2.4B target

🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 OpenAI and Rockefeller back city AI projects with $50M fund

Media🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 Meta drops 'train' from scraping terms, but broad crawling rights remain

Security🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 Cloudflare vs AWS feud: how Cloudflare's push into serverless compute and zero-egress storage became an open feud

Semiconductors🇺🇸Oct 17, 2026 Nvidia reportedly turned away neoclouds from GTC Berlin for adding AMD and TPU chips

Travel🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Booking Holdings backs AI travel agent Vayo with $100M

Energy🇦🇺Oct 16, 2026 BHP takes 32% of Faraday in $658M copper deal

Security🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026 Claude cracks the NSA's 25-year NIST curve mystery: the seeds were just random numbers seeded by a 1997 clock