In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not to develop weapons or surveillance technology that violates international norms. It built an AI ethics […]

The Mythos crisis forced the United States government to confront a question it had been avoiding: what happens when an AI model is powerful enough to threaten national security and the government has no formal mechanism to evaluate it before the public gets access? On Tuesday, the Commerce Department announced that Google, Microsoft, and xAI […]

Two years ago, Nscale was a cryptocurrency mining operation. On Tuesday, the company announced €695 million ($812 million) in new infrastructure investment in Portugal, an expansion of its partnership with Microsoft that will deliver more than 66,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs to a site with 1.2 gigawatts of permitted capacity. Nscale is now valued at $14.6 […]

The founders of IronSource spent a decade building tools that helped mobile app developers monetise their products through advertising. They sold that company to Unity for $4.4 billion in 2022, watched Unity dismantle the ad network they had built, left in 2024, and have now returned with a company whose premise is that the entire […]

On Monday, Fervo Energy formally launched its IPO roadshow, offering 55,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at an indicated range of $21 to $24 each. At the high end of the range, the geothermal-energy developer would raise as much as $1.33bn and become the largest climate-tech IPO of 2026 to date. The company has […]