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“Microsoft last month signed a 20-year contract to buy Kilby’s off-grid energy from Chevron, which is building enough gas turbines (at an estimated cost of more than $6 billion) to generate nearly 3 GW for Microsoft.”
“Workday, the maker of popular AI-powered human resources software, is facing claims, external that it violated Californian law thousands of times by weeding out job applicants at many major companies for discriminatory reasons.”
“One more satellite is planned thereafter to complete the seven-satellite NavIC base layer constellation.”
“Sony acquired Audeze, a leading audio technology brand and pioneer of high-end gaming headphones, in 2023 to continue its focus on innovation in PlayStation audio.”
“Moody’s expects the largest U.S. hyperscalers to spend more than $700 billion in 2026, up from about $387 billion a year earlier, most of it on data centers and AI.”
“Figures published in July by Ofcom show that mobile data use has increased by 13% year-on-year in the UK.”
“Currently, only IRNSS 1-B, IRNSS 1-L and NVS-01 are capable of providing navigation services.”
“Previously, the most accessible planar gaming headset was $299, and then we went with Sony and made it $149 [with the Pulse Elite headset], so it's slowly pushing its way down to be much more accessible.”
“The three biggest cloud platforms, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, together held 63% of the global market in the second quarter of 2026.”
“In an Ofcom survey of 1,010 people in August 2022, of the 13-to-17-year-olds questioned, 69% said it was acceptable to make video calls, 73% to listen to music and 83% to watch videos without headphones.”
“But for the NaVIC system to be operational effectively, at least four satellites with operational atomic clocks are required.”
“with the phones set for an August 12 launch.”
“JLL estimates that building a hyperscale data center’s shell, power and cooling runs about $11.3 million per megawatt in 2026, before land or computing equipment. Fitting a facility out for AI can add up to $25 million per megawatt on top …”
“last year launched a public awareness campaign calling for passengers to be considerate after the results of a survey of 1,000 people said 70% of respondents found loud music and phone calls without headphones a nuisance.”
“According to Android Headlines, the Pixel 11 will start at $899, the Pixel 11 Pro at $1,099, the Pixel 11 Pro XL at $1,299, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold at $1,899.”
“U.S. data-center power demand alone could roughly double, from 31 gigawatts in 2025 to 66 gigawatts by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs.”
“It found 43% of white respondents, 58% of people with an Asian background, 58% of black people, and 60% identifying as being from a minority ethnic group saying they did this.”
“That, in all cases, represents a $100 increase on last year's models.”
“Google’s data centers in The Dalles, Oregon used about 355 million gallons in 2021, close to a third of the whole city's water.”
“The empty upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket was due to strike the Moon near the Einstein crater at a speed of about 5,400mph (8,700km/h) on Wednesday.”
“you’re also apparently getting a storage boost, with 256GB said to be the starting capacity rather than 128GB.”
“At the end of 2025, 580 of the world’s roughly 1,360 hyperscale data centers were in the United States, more than any other country.”
“The spent stage - which is about the size of a five-storey building and weighs at least 4,000kg”
“These include Midnight (black), Fuchsia (pink), and Moss (green) for the Pixel 11”
“first shown at IFA 2025”
“The Einstein crater is over 180km (112 miles) wide”
“the Pixel 11 series to replace the Pixel 10’s Tensor G5 chipset with a Tensor G6”
“Select 2026 Hisense models, including UX, UR9, UR8, and U7 series, are receiving firmware updates globally”
“it will have just two cameras on the back — a wide and an ultra‑wide, with no telephoto.”
“a chance to win a $1 million field upgrade”
“Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL could come in configurations with just 12GB of RAM, whereas the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL came with 16GB.”
“communities with populations of 150,000 or fewer”
“mention 120x zoom. And if the Pixel 11 Pro has this feature, the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL almost certainly will as well. And it’s a believable claim, since not only does the source have a great track record, but the Pixel 10 Pro series alrea…”
“schools can receive $5,000, $25,000 and $250,000 rewards”
“The 2025 season saw more than 2,100 schools apply across 48 states, and 475 schools received funding”
“by late July, more than 2,000 applications had been received”
“one thousand schools will be selected to receive $5,000 each as part of the weekly $5K Fridays sweepstakes, including 300 winners announced in the first week alone”
“The grand prize winner will be revealed on Nov. 12”
“merging with Sprint in 2020”
“Freier graduated from Permian High in 1993”
“It’s the third year of the campaign and the second year Mahomes has been involved”
“Mahomes has been a spokesman for T-Mobile since 2023”
“original Switch has sold 156.69 million units, just behind the PS2’s 160 million units.”
“added 660,000 Switch sales, and it still forecasts 2 million for the year. That would take the total to 158.69 million”
“Nintendo reports the Switch 2 has now sold 23.68 million units.”
“1,561.95 million software units to Switch 2’s 58.17 million. That’s a difference of 26x.”
“The only one we have firm data on is the PS5, which has sold 95 million units six years into its generation”
“Series X, now six years old, is currently $800, up from its launch price of $500.”
“Nintendo has been the least affected here, only raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50”
“Turnout, a $400 million AI startup”
“Radar tool scans 14 federal and state programs in about three minutes”
“AI agent Jake automates up to 90% of case work”
“AI deepfake scams used his cloned voice to push a fake $6,400 government check to millions”
“One video amassed more than 18 million views”
“has helped more than 10,000 people with Social Security disability claims alone”
“Turnout currently offers full advocacy services for four of the 14 programs it scans”
“Adobe is launching a ChatGPT plugin featuring all 70 of its creative and productivity tools that handle creation of video, images, audio and more.”
“Firefly, Adobe’s own in-house AI service released three years ago that is built on copyright-safe public-domain and Adobe-owned stock images.”
“selected Amentum to enter negotiations over a phased lease at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, covering a 1 gigawatt AI data center and about 2 gigawatts of dedicated on-site generation.”
“Department of Energy named Brookfield and NextEra Energy as its partners at the Paducah site in Kentucky, behind more than $100 billion of announced private investment and a 1.8 gigawatt campus.”
“The energy package is roughly 2 gigawatts of new grid-connected gas plus up to 2.6 gigawatts of battery storage, with completion expected in 2031.”
“DOE describes a 1.8 gigawatt campus. The coalition's own announcement that day puts compute load above 1.2 gigawatts, with 1.8 gigawatts the utility capacity standing behind it, up to 4.6 gigawatts of dedicated generation, and full build‑o…”
“In March it announced a 10 gigawatt campus at the Portsmouth site in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy and AEP Ohio, backed by 9.2 gigawatts of new gas, and construction on an initial 800 megawatt phase is expected this year.”
“OpenAI said it and Oracle had 'entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts' of additional Stargate capacity. By September the same company was describing the same deal as 'up to 4.5 gigawatts' inside an announcement that put Stargate at …”
“Phase one was built and is running: an independent tally by Epoch AI in April put roughly four of eight buildings live, about 0.3 gigawatts, with the full 1.2 gigawatts projected for late this year.”
“SpaceX, which acquired xAI in February 2026, has roughly 300 megawatts of grid supply approved by the Tennessee Valley Authority across two board decisions. The Shelby County air permit for the first Colossus site covers 15 turbines and 24…”
“Entergy Louisiana's March 2026 agreement with Meta is structured so that Meta pays its full cost of service, with about $2 billion in projected customer savings over 20 years on top of $650 million previously announced. The generation behi…”
“Inevitable AI Group, is disclosing a $6 million pre‑seed led by Aleph”
“take large software companies worth between one and ten billion dollars”
“Since launching in January it has put out five ventures by the count in its press release”
“The target is roughly 50, with 'dozens more by year-end'”
“One estimate already sizes the market at $4.7 billion”
“Each product is built to match its target in about six weeks”
“The cost of these products is 'going to be reduced by 90 to 95%'”
“API prices have fallen more than 90% since 2023”
“Jeff Dean, the tech giant’s 30th employee and its chief scientist, is departing after 27 years to found his own AI startup.”
“Demis Hassabis, the bigwig who founded the pioneering lab DeepMind more than 15 years ago, is stepping away from day‑to‑day control of the frontier lab to become its chairman and new chief scientist for Google parent Alphabet.”
“They trace back to 2023, when Google fused DeepMind and Google Brain, its two premier AI research operations, into Google DeepMind.”
“Shazeer would rejoin the company in 2025 after Google essentially acqui‑hired him back for $2.7 billion.”
“the company’s Google Brain researchers invented the transformer in 2017, the architecture that makes gen AI possible.”
“Dean, along with three other top AI researchers at Google, are leaving after founding Discover Loop, a startup focused on using AI to supercharge the speed of scientific research, backed by lead investors Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventur…”
“he joined DeepMind in London two years after its founding, before moving to Mountain View.”
“Koray Kavukcuoglu, the division’s former chief technology officer, moved from London to Google headquarters in the past year.”
“According to the SAE, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers (now SAE International), there are six levels of automated driving, with only Level 5 being fully driverless.”
“Consumer vehicles currently offer only Level 2 automation.”
“Experts predict a slow transition to widespread Level 5 adoption for private ownership, with autonomous technology primarily serving commercial and fleet operations for the foreseeable future.”
“An autonomous vehicle is defined by the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems as one that uses “technology to partially or entirely replace the human driver in navigating a vehicle from an origin to a destination while avoi…”
“Companies such as Kodiak Robotics and Aurora now operate self-driving trucks with no safety driver aboard, but may have engineers riding to monitor vehicle performance.”
“Commercial delivery company Gatik also operates autonomous trucks to bring stock from warehouses to points of sale.”
“Cruise, a former subsidiary of General Motors Co., was forced to shut down its robotaxi service after one of its cars was involved in an accident that injured a pedestrian.”
“In 2018, a driverless Uber robotaxi with a safety driver aboard struck and killed a bicyclist in Tempe, Arizona.”
“A University of Michigan study concluded that when “savings from the driving efficiencies associated with self-driving vehicles are factored into the equation, the net result is a reduction in lifetime energy use and associated greenhouse …”
“A 2023 study by McKinsey and Company predicts “By 2030, 12% of new passenger cars are sold with L3+ autonomous technologies and 37 percent have advanced AD technologies in 2035.””
“One of the most successful is Waymo. It operates robotaxi service in 11 markets around the U.S. with plans to expand to 21 more cities including London, UK and Tokyo, Japan.”
“Partnering with Amazon, Zoox operates robotaxi service in Las Vegas and San Francisco with plans to expand to Miami, Florida and Austin, Texas.”
“Michigan-based May Mobility operates its self-driving Toyota Sienna minivans with no backup driver aboard in 15 locations in the U.S. and Japan.”
“According to automotive supplier Valeo, which declared AI “a key driver of mobility transformation.””
“Based on consumer interest in automated driving features and commercial solutions available on the market today, in its report, McKinsey predicted ADAS and AD could generate between $300 billion and $400 billion in the passenger car market…”
“According to McKinsey, any transition will be at a snail’s pace, projecting that in 2030, only 4% of new passenger cars sold will be installed with level 3 or higher automation functions, increasing to just 17% in 2035.”
“Looking specifically at the San Francisco market in the second quarter of 2026, a report by rideshare pricing comparison app Obi found the price per mile for robotaxis Tesla and Waymo was $4.30 and $9.58 respectively compared with $6.88 fo…”
