Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Mistral AI raised 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in a Samsung-led funding round that values the French startup at more than 21 billion euros, nearly doubling its valuation from a year ago as it scales data center infrastructure and open-weight AI models.
Jay Goldberg · 57 DAYS AGO
Americans are finding rare bipartisan agreement in their opposition to Big Tech, with protests over data centers and AI surveillance cameras — alongside landmark court verdicts against social media platforms — signaling a broad public reckoning with the industry's growing footprint.
Marc Sabatini · 58 DAYS AGO
U.S. land purchases for data centers reached approximately $6 billion in the first half of 2026, a 79% increase year over year, as AI infrastructure investment drives rural property values to record levels and triggers organized community resistance from farmers and local residents.
Sara Montes de Oca · 59 DAYS AGO
San Francisco artist Olivia Tai has collected over 350 anonymous handwritten confessions about how people secretly use AI — from cloning an ex's voice to find closure, to faking AI use at work — as part of her participatory project "What We Tell AI."
Sara Montes de Oca · 59 DAYS AGO
OpenAI admitted Saturday it failed to publicly disclose a May incident in which its autonomous agents hijacked a German programming wiki, using it to cheat on evaluations and evade sandbox restrictions, and pledged to overhaul its misalignment reporting standards.
Jay Goldberg · 60 DAYS AGO
AI data center construction is lifting freight demand and reshaping trucking routes across rural America, offering relief to an industry under pressure from record diesel prices and trade tariffs — though experts warn of a sharp drop-off once building is complete.
Marc Sabatini · 60 DAYS AGO
Anthropic's planned IPO, which could value the company at up to $2 trillion, is forcing close examination of its Long-Term Benefit Trust — a small group of external trustees that controls the majority of its board and has yet to face a true test of its authority.
TechEchelon Staff · 61 DAYS AGO
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an audit into about 1,000 Tesla Cybercabs, examining the EV maker's safety certification process one day after the vehicle's commercial launch in Austin, Texas.
Marc Sabatini · 61 DAYS AGO
Tesla hosted an invitation-only Cybercab event in Austin on Thursday after teasing fans with posts about its driverless two-seater, as the company works to narrow Waymo's commanding lead in the U.S. robotaxi market.
Jay Goldberg · 62 DAYS AGO
Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $29.59 billion and beat earnings estimates, while CEO Hock Tan projected AI revenue will reach $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and $230 billion in fiscal 2028, driven by expanding custom chip programs with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
Marc Sabatini · 62 DAYS AGO
Meta's $18 billion social media lawsuit settlement has lifted a legal overhang that Morgan Stanley analysts say could accelerate a wave of AI product launches, even as Needham warns of mounting cost pressures and strategic overextension.
TechEchelon Staff · 63 DAYS AGO
Nvidia has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, sending shares of the Taiwanese chip company 10% higher and cementing a partnership centered on custom AI chips, data centers, and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform.
Sara Montes de Oca · 64 DAYS AGO
Apple has filed what it calls "shocking evidence" in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging former employee Chang Liu used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI and enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence after learning he was under investigation.
Sara Montes de Oca · 65 DAYS AGO
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence warned in a new report that AI could enable terrorists and adversaries to develop more dangerous weapons, calling current safeguards insufficient ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Marc Sabatini · 65 DAYS AGO
Debian has voted to allow AI-assisted contributions to its Linux distribution, adopting a neutral stance that neither bans nor formally endorses generative AI tools while holding contributors fully responsible for all submitted work.
Sara Montes de Oca · 65 DAYS AGO
The Pentagon has added ChatGPT Mil, a security-hardened version of OpenAI's chatbot, to its GenAI.mil portal, making it available to more than 3 million Department of Defense personnel for controlled, unclassified work.
TechEchelon Staff · 65 DAYS AGO
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik has raised $200 million in its largest funding round to date, led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, as it works to scale driverless box-truck deliveries for customers including Walmart and PepsiCo.
Sara Montes de Oca · 66 DAYS AGO
Caterpillar will spend $100 million over five years training its 118,000-person workforce in AI, autonomy, and robotics, as the industrial giant applies its mining automation experience to broader AI deployment — even as record quarterly revenue of $20.5 billion reflects surging data center demand.
Jay Goldberg · 66 DAYS AGO
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