A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room

A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geog…

Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demand
Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demand

In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity …

The dummy server and the chip war
The dummy server and the chip war

The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To …

Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist
Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in Anthropic’s court filing that sets the tone for everythin…

The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI

The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its technology will go into Frontier, the company’s enterprise age…

OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban
OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military systems, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using rival Anthropic’s technology. The announcement…

OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban
OpenAI signs Pentagon AI deal after Trump orders Anthropic ban

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military systems, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using rival Anthropic’s technology. The announcement…

The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.
The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.

If a data center is moving in next door, you probably live in the United States. More than half of all upcoming global data centers—as indicated by land purchased for data centers not yet announced, those under construction, and those whose plans are …