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Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk just revealed what a secret SpaceX foundry in Bastrop, Texas, is actually for — and it cuts straight to the heart of AI's most urgent infrastructure crisis. Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with a serious pollution problem, and the ripple effects stretch far beyond Texas. For

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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande ran one of the most influential biotech investment practices on the planet — roughly $4 billion in assets under management at Andreessen Horowitz. Then he walked away from it to start something dramatically smaller. That decision, and the reasoning behind it, tells you something importan

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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

Two of the world's largest music publishers just drew a hard line in the AI training data war. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a sweeping lawsuit against Anthropic — and its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally — accusing the AI lab of what they call a "brazen c

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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

Nvidia is reportedly closing in on a $13 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face. Stripe just bought OpenRouter for over $7 billion. Poolside got absorbed into Nvidia for $6 billion. Three massive acquisitions, all targeting the same category: open-weight AI. Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's h

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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Lambda just borrowed another billion dollars — and it's going straight into Nvidia silicon. The AI cloud company, which buys GPUs and rents them to businesses, has now stacked up multiple billion-dollar debt facilities in the span of a few months, signaling that the race to own AI compute infrastruc

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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

When the two most closely watched AI labs in the world share a stage, developers everywhere pay attention — and they should. Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and the signal this sends goes well beyond a conference agenda. It marks a moment where the competiti

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3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

Google just folded a full travel agent into your search bar. On August 27, 2026, the company announced three concrete upgrades to AI Mode in Search — flight price tracking, points and miles visibility, and in-mode hotel booking — that collapse what used to be a multi-tab, multi-platform research ses

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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

A $12.9 billion deal that reshapes the open-source AI landscape is reportedly on the table — and if it closes, the ripple effects will reach every developer building on open models, from Seoul to Singapore. Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition territory, and the move signals something bigger

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

Forty-five billion dollars. Not for a company, not for a product — for compute. Anthropic has just signed a deal to rent AI compute from Nscale, a British infrastructure provider founded only in 2024, and the scale of it should make every developer and founder in Asia stop and think about where the

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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Twenty million call attempts a month. That's not a pilot program — that's infrastructure. India's Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call and into territory that most enterprise software has barely touched: the messy, multilingual, high-volume world of real human co

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5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search

Google Search just got a serious interior design brain. With searches for "home decor inspo" up 300% in the past month alone, Google has shipped a suite of AI-powered features that take you from pinning ideas to actually executing them — visualizing furniture in your room before you buy, identifying

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Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

Leopold Aschenbrenner built Situational Awareness into Wall Street's hottest AI bet — then watched billions evaporate in a single July downturn. Now the SEC is circling. The story of this AI hedge fund that nearly imploded is more than a Wall Street drama; it's a stress test for the entire thesis th