The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A l…

Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million
Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

A majority of Palo Alto Networks shareholders have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive compensation packages seven times since 2015, a record that makes it the most rejected pay programme in the S&P 500 and the third-most in the Rus…

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission
The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to t…

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI
The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which has been quietl…

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product
Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Florida has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in what appears to be the first lawsuit by a US state against the maker of ChatGPT. The civil complaint, filed Monday in state court by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of violating product liab…

Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI
Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI

Anthropic has agreed to give the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, access to Claude Mythos, the AI model that has autonomously discovered more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating sys…

China formalises tougher outbound-investment rules after the Meta-Manus blockade
China formalises tougher outbound-investment rules after the Meta-Manus blockade

Beijing’s new framework codifies the technology-tracing approach the NDRC used to unwind Meta’s $2bn Manus acquisition, making cross-border AI deals materially harder. China has formalised a tougher framework for outbound-investment review, codifying t…

China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI
China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI

A top-level Communist Party publication has signaled a shift in how Beijing intends to govern its largest internet platforms. A draft commentary set to appear in the Qiushi journal on Monday says the focus will be on balancing support for growth with e…

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.
A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyper…

SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.
SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. It is the Japanese conglomerate’s biggest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe. CEO Masayoshi Son and President Emmanuel Macron a…