HubSpot has scrapped a plan to pool customer data for an AI feature after a four-day backlash, a lesson in how touchy the AI-data grab has become.

Samsung Heavy Industries plans a purpose-built, 50MW floating data centre by 2028, as land, water and local opposition squeeze AI projects on shore.

A Meta contractor flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne's water system, so the Wyoming city suspended all data centre discharge, the Guardian reports.

Michał Sołowow's SGE plans 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites, a £35bn bet on AI-era power, by 2034.

Matrix's inference chips in a joint system, the latest sign it would rather befriend chip rivals than fight them.

Venus Aerospace has raised a $91m Series B to turn its rotating detonation rocket engine into hardware for missiles and high-speed space vehicles.

New York bans smart glasses from all 1,240 courts as Meta tamper-proofs its recording light, even while testing always-on "super-sensing" glasses.

Fi's new Fi Ultra is the first dog collar to run on Starlink's direct-to-cell satellites, keeping pets trackable beyond phone towers, Fortune reports.

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, the first model built with Cursor. Musk calls it "Opus-class" but cheaper, aimed at coding, legal and finance work.

AI startup Rilla spends $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff live near its NYC office and work 72-hour weeks. The CEO says it's about flow, not comfort.

City Labs' BOHR is the first commercial nuclear power source in orbit, a tritium betavoltaic battery built to run where solar panels cannot.

Anduril's Palmer Luckey says US universities train 'architecture astronauts' while China builds the real engineers, a warning echoed by Pfizer's CEO.