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Duke and Indiana Deals Put More AI Power Costs on Data Centres
Duke Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have filed a North Carolina settlement that makes big data centres pay upfront, sign 10–15 year contracts and accept some power cuts. Indiana approved Google paying the full cost of serving a 390 MW site, and a bipartisan Senate bill would make data centres pay for the grid upgrades they trigger. And gas equipment is being shipped straight to AI projects: a 380 MW Doosan turbine for SpaceXAI and 282 MW of Wärtsilä engines. What is agreed and what still needs approval.
Microsoft Execution Containers and AWS Strands Box Fence In AI Agents
Microsoft made its Execution Containers generally available on Windows 11 as it rebuilds Windows for local and cloud "hybrid" AI, and opened Surface Laptop Ultra pre-orders from $2,599. AWS open-sourced Strands Box, a sandbox that enforces rules such as "no git push" whatever the agent decides. What an enforced sandbox does, in plain words.
Meta and Microsoft’s Claude cutbacks: secondary reports of tighter employee AI budgets
Tech Startups, citing The Information, says Meta halved Claude Code users (~60k to ~30k) and Microsoft cut per-employee AI model caps from ~$100k to ~$10k monthly. Secondary reporting; treat as unverified.
Microsoft’s Sovereign AI Paper Says Match Control to Each Workload
A Microsoft white paper on "sovereign AI" with Nvidia technologies argues that governments should decide how much control they need workload by workload. It is useful, but it is vendor guidance, not independent policy.
Everyday AI Is in Search, Phones and Offices, but People Check It
You do not have to go looking for AI. It is already in the search box, the phone, the document, and the speaker. What it is not, yet, is the thing that finishes the job.
The AI Lab Is Dead: Why Anthropic Just Became Google’s R&D Division
The AI Lab Is Dead: Why Anthropic Just Became Google's R&D DivisionOn Friday, Google announced it will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic. Not acquire it....
Cursor at $50 Billion: The AI Coding Revolution Just Went Mainstream
In the span of just a few years, Cursor has gone from a niche developer tool to a 50 billion dollar enterprise juggernaut. This is not just...
Microsoft’s Project Silica Puts 4.8TB in Glass as Its Research Ends
Updated 28 October 2026: this article has been rewritten and checked against the Nature paper and Microsoft's own statements. Capacity figures are corrected (4.8TB in fused silica...
The 13 Billion Bet: Why Microsoft Is Building Its Own AI Stack
Microsoft has invested more than 13 billion in OpenAI. It powers Copilot with GPT models. It hosts OpenAI's training infrastructure on Azure. By any measure, the partnership...
The 10 Most Valuable AI Learning Repositories on GitHub
The 10 Most Valuable AI Learning Repositories on GitHub
Microsoft dominates the list, but the real gems teach you what the hype hides.GitHub hosts millions of repositories, but...
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