Tencent reportedly committed $7B to Oracle for access to 100K advanced AI chips via Southeast Asian data centers.
Zijing Wu / Financial Times : Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers — WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group's south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
Dell, Jera and Rhaelm plan a $15B, 400MW off-grid AI data center and gas plant near Tokyo.
Financial Times : Dell, Jera, and UK-based Rhaelm partner to build a $15B, 400MW off-grid AI data center and gas power plant near Tokyo, set to begin operations around 2028 — Planned 400-megawatt data centre near Tokyo will be among Asia's largest projects outside China — Japan is aiming to speed …
An investigation found OpenAI agents allegedly scraped 55 organizations' sites while obscuring their activity.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times : Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions — New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks.
Anthropic makes Claude for Government generally available, with Claude Code CLI and Microsoft 365 integrations in early access.
Claude : Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access — Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 also now available in early access. — Product announcements — Product
Salesforce is acquiring AI customer-research startup Listen Labs for a reported $2B, months after its $500M valuation.
Chris Metinko / Axios : Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January — The customer research space is especially ripe for AI disruption, as companies look to replace older, manual methods to more quickly find out what customers think.
Micron's CEO forecasts RAM shortages through 2028 or longer, with substantially higher prices for customers.
Simon Sharwood / The Register : Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says RAM shortages will persist into 2028 and perhaps beyond, and customers will pay “much higher prices” than they did this year — Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come — Memory-maker Micron has warned that RAM shortages …
Internal documents show Google researchers warned of cognitive and emotional risks to children as AI entered schools.
Wall Street Journal : Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools — The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash
SemiAnalysis estimates agentic AI supplies about 90% of Anthropic business, amid major customer-concentration concerns.
Financial Times : SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients — Powerful AI tools burn through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs.
Dutch reporting finds most data centers decline to disclose their water and electricity consumption.
Google and Range Media launch 100 Zeros, a fund to shape onscreen portrayals of tech and test AI tools.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times : Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools — Jonathan Zepp, left, Google's head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners …
EDG has made its long-standing C++ compiler front end publicly available.
Netlify details a 5× Edge Functions speedup by moving from V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs.
Magnitude launches an open self-optimizing inference engine aimed at AI-agent workloads.
AGI Math proposes responsible release practices for AI-generated mathematics.
A CS240 retrospective documents how AI-assisted cheating affected a computer-science course.
OpenDLSS offers a Vulkan reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network.
Huawei says rising memory costs add roughly $200 per phone, prompting planned smartphone price increases.
Bloomberg : Huawei plans moderate smartphone price increases to counter an average $200 per-unit cost hike driven by rising memory component costs, and unveils new handsets — Huawei Technologies Co. plans to join rivals in jacking up smartphone prices to counter rising memory costs …
FT analysis finds Google, Apple and Amazon each out-meet any European company with EU Parliament and Commission officials.
Financial Times : Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company — US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules.
Paragon Solutions' CEO says the spyware maker lacks visibility into customer targeting and has no kill switch.
Kim Zetter / Wired : An interview with Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd, who says the US spyware maker lacks visibility into customer targeting data and has no “kill switch” — In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company's promise …
404 Media reports cities are being compelled to feed license-plate data into a federal surveillance program.
A developer critique examines Android's new developer-verification program and its implications for software distribution.
A practical explainer sets out the properties TLA+ can verify—and the classes of problems it cannot.
Quanta reports how unexpectedly complex waves are yielding new insight into the brain's internal workings.
A from-scratch technical guide explains functional ultrasound imaging, a high-resolution method for brain activity.
Researchers report moist-electric wallpaper designed for indoor energy harvesting and humidity management.
The Space Review investigates the top-secret URSALA, RAQUEL and FARRAH satellites.
Ars Technica reports Reddit is imposing further limits on access to old.reddit.com.
Gitea publishes version 28.0 of its self-hosted Git collaboration platform.
Matt Keeter presents Halfspace, an experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields.
A detailed GPU typography comparison explains tradeoffs among SDF, MSDF and Slug text rendering.
Zachary Small / New York Times : A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that “Xbox is not for sale” despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division — Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune : A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY 2018 to $11.48B in FY 2026, as AI reshapes cybersecurity — Nikesh Arora is the guy CEOs of Fortune 500 and tech companies call when AI gets scary. — In April, Nikesh Arora applied a simple …
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says growth is slower than he would like and defends the WBD pursuit, adding Netflix isn't seeking another acquisition to replace it — Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive officer at Netflix Inc., said the US streaming giant isn't growing as quickly as he would like.