Bain’s Bridge Data Centres Moves Toward a $6.6 Billion Loan
The largest borrower in Asia’s data center build-out is not a technology company. It is a private equity firm’s real estate arm. Bridge Data Centres, owned by Bain Capital, is…
White House Reopens Model Access for UK Safety Institute
For 17 days, the British government’s AI testing body could not see the technology it exists to study. The White House restored the UK AI Safety Institute’s access to unreleased…
Microsoft Turns the Office Suite Inside Out
For years, Microsoft’s pitch for Copilot was simple: the assistant lived inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint, waiting in the margin of whatever document you had open. This month the company…
A Handwritten Note and the Fight Over America’s Data Centers
The note turned up at a construction site for an Amazon data center in Manassas, Virginia, written by hand and dated April 22. A dozen pipe bombs, it said, were…
Nokia Puts GPUs Inside the Base Station
Nokia has started shipping cell-site equipment that carries a graphics processor beside the radios that move mobile traffic, a wager that the same silicon running artificial-intelligence data centers can also…
Three Frontier Labs Discussed AI Safety Without Saying So
The three companies that build the most capable artificial-intelligence models disagree in public about almost everything: how fast to release, how open to be, whose approach is safest. In private,…
Gates Wants AI Regulated Like Cars and Medicines
Bill Gates used a Sunday morning television interview to say the thing much of the AI industry avoids: the technology he has spent three years promoting is more dangerous than…
Microsoft’s President Says Britain Regulates Milk More Than It Regulates AI
Brad Smith reached for a grocery aisle to make an argument about artificial intelligence, and the comparison was the point: Britain’s rules for milk are stricter than its rules for…
Palantir Loses a British Police Contract After a Two-Year Pilot
Five British police forces have decided to step away from Palantir’s Foundry system after two years of testing it on criminal investigations, and they want proof the company has erased…
Two Chip Chiefs Say the AI Bottleneck Is Turning Into Money
The men who sell the chips say the thing holding back artificial intelligence may no longer be the chips. Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan and Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan,…
