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Microsoft is training sales teams to promote its AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.

Despite heavy investment, most companies outside tech have yet to see financial gains from artificial intelligence, an Apollo economist reports.

Crusoe Energy raises $3B at $30B valuation after securing a $13B contract with Jane Street, highlighting sustainable data center growth.

Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter is driven by practical AI needs, focusing on flexible model integration rather than speculative singularity goals.

Vertu's $6,880 foldable offers tailored AI for executives, with strong security and solid battery life but limited conversational skills.

A Philadelphia woman was arrested after blocking an Uber delivery robot, sparking debate over automation and job displacement in urban delivery services.

Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra featuring Nvidia AI chips and an AI-enhanced Windows 11 to boost on-device intelligence.

Prentis, co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, seeks $100M to build AI that automates routine computer tasks beyond coding.

Hyundai's plan to deploy 25,000 humanoid robots in U.S. factories by 2028 sparks worker strikes over job security concerns.

Travis Kalanick hints Atoms may expand from scooters to autonomous robotaxis, pursuing his vision to reshape urban transportation.

Situational Awareness invests $400 million in chip startup Source Foundry, signaling strong confidence in AI hardware innovation despite market challenges.

TypeSafe's AI model Jev reaches a $7.5B valuation weeks after launch, promising faster results with fewer tokens than traditional models.

Amazon’s Texas data center plan includes a power plant that could become the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

Crusoe raises $3.9B, reaching a $30.9B valuation, to expand data centers and launch modular AI-focused facilities.

Nvidia’s new AI data center design uses liquid cooling and runs hotter to slash water use, aiming for greener, more efficient technology.

Ricursive Intelligence is developing AI that designs and improves chips iteratively, aiming to speed up and automate semiconductor development.

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory that blends automation and human oversight to reshape steel parts manufacturing.

Data centers’ growing energy use is raising electricity costs in the Rust Belt, challenging efforts to revive American manufacturing under the "Made in America" plan.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 brings back the Builders Stage, focusing on real-world strategies for founders and investors to scale startups effectively.

Block’s new voice model delivers remarkably human-like speech by running locally on the MacBook M4 Max, bypassing cloud dependency.

Discovered Materials, a YC startup, offers $1M in prizes for AI-driven solutions to five unsolved challenges in materials science for semiconductors.

DeepMind’s WeatherNext model predicts hurricanes accurately using lower-resolution data, offering a fresh approach to weather forecasting.

Amazon’s $1 billion data center initiative wins praise for ending NDAs but faces criticism over its approach to environmental impact.

Anthropic’s SEC filing reveals AI’s reliance on methane-powered data centers, highlighting energy challenges amid its expansion plans.

Crusoe Energy has paused its $1.25 billion plan to use Boom Supersonic's turbine technology for AI data center power, signaling a shift in strategy.

Industrial Next is developing technology to enable factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, enhancing flexibility in complex manufacturing processes.

Russia’s centralized digital infrastructure faces challenges amid conflict with Ukraine, exposing vulnerabilities in its data economy.

Nvidia is boosting AI data center efficiency by focusing on smarter traffic management instead of just adding more GPUs.

Chinese AI firms Moonshot and Alibaba introduce cost-effective models challenging U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence.

Texas' data center surge could raise air pollution to early 2000s levels, threatening decades of clean air progress amid growing AI infrastructure demand.