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Signal: The buildout keeps sending the bill sideways — car parts, power bills, paychecks — while the systems making the decisions still won't show their work.
Nvidia's Biggest Buyers Told: Servers Up 15%
Servers built on the flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips will cost more than 15% extra when they ship early next year, with soaring memory named as the cause — sourced to people Bloomberg would not name, and unconfirmed by Nvidia.
The Verge: Amazon device prices jump up to 60% on the same memory squeeze
The RaceCompanies, models and money
The AI Backlash Goes in Anthropic's Prospectus Livemint: Broadcom in talks for up to $80bn of debt to fund Anthropic's chips
NEWData Centers Took the Capacitors. Cars Wait.
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Five Labs Graded on Killing a Rogue Model
Guidelight AI Standards graded five frontier labs on published plans for cutting off a model caught subverting human control; OpenAI scored highest, Anthropic and Meta lowest, and most plans are not public at all.
Ox Alpha: 1M Context, No Lab's Name on It Wccftech: tokenizer evidence points to Zhipu's unreleased GLM
NEWA 27B Model Out-Replicated Opus 4.8
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Antigravity Now Answers to Google Cloud
NEWCopilot Runs the Standup Now, on Credits GitHub: the same agent sessions arrive in Slack, where GitHub is a Slack Code launch partner
Bedrock Routes GPT-5.6 Across Regions
The FightLaw, policy and power
OpenAI Now Wants California's Bill Tougher
The company that opposed SB 53 last year now asks Sacramento to widen it — monitoring frontier models still in training, hardening cybersecurity — citing 'recent incidents' it will not name.
Engadget: 'a surprising 180' from a company that fought the bill
One English County Won't Take Palantir
Off a Murder Appeal for ChatGPT's Witnesses
NEWChatGPT Starts Selling Ads in Europe Monday
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Trump: Fine, Run Against the Data Centers Implicator: Abbott paused a 474GW ERCOT data-center queue nine months after courting Google
AI Isn't Taking Jobs. It's Taking Raises.
NEWAustralia's Aged-Care Algorithm Had No Trial
Data Centers Get Their Own TVA Rate
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Robots Beat Bolt's Record. Unitree: 10 Years to Go.
More than 2,000 humanoid robots opened Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games by breaking human sprint and high-jump records — days after Unitree's founder pushed the field's real breakthrough out to five or ten years.
CNBC: Unitree founder puts the robot 'ChatGPT moment' two to ten years out
NEWApple Music Makes 'Made With AI' Mandatory
Ghost Note Harvard Sells You a $699 Clone of Its Faculty
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