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…
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,…
Musk Vows Affordable Starlink in India, Days Before Jio’s Record Listing
Elon Musk’s pitch to Indian households arrived on X on Saturday, and it was not really aimed at them. “If Starlink is priced too high in India, nobody will buy…
Musk Drops the Word AI From SpaceX’s Model Unit
The change arrived as a screenshot. Elon Musk posted an image of an account page on X on October 10 showing that the handle @SpaceXSI now carried the name “SpaceX…
Venezuela Grants Starlink Seven Licenses to Operate Nationwide
For more than two years, Starlink has reached Venezuelans the way many things reach Venezuelans: through informal channels, at prices set outside the rules. On October 9, the country’s telecommunications…
Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi Fleet Grew Eightfold in a Month
For most of the past year, investors who pressed Tesla about its robotaxi business heard a familiar answer: the Cybercab fleet in Austin was still small, still stuck somewhere between…
SpaceX’s Texas Chip Complex Could Reach $119 Billion
When Elon Musk’s companies first described Terafab, the plan already sounded enormous: a semiconductor and advanced-computing campus in rural Grimes County, Texas, that would dwarf the largest building on Earth…
Microsoft Switches On a Fourth Cloud Region in India
The newest piece of Microsoft’s Indian cloud network sits in Hyderabad, a city of technology parks and pharmaceutical plants that has become one of the subcontinent’s most important software hubs.…
A Nvidia-Backed Startup Wants Rival AI Chips to Talk
The largest AI data centers are built around one supplier’s chips and one supplier’s way of wiring them together. A Santa Clara startup carrying Nvidia’s money is betting that arrangement…
