AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns

Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence “very carefully”.
When Data Centers Cluster Together, How Dirty Are They? One County Wants Answers.

An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon’s annual Small World In Motion contest.
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could po…
The AI telling farmers when to harvest

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology

100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition

VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.