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Archive September 25, 2026 01:10 UTC
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Signal: Compute money now flows both ways - a lab takes equity in its supplier - while Canberra, not Washington, writes the first rules for rogue agents.
Anthropic Buys Akamai's CPUs - and 5% of Akamai
An $11.6bn seven-year CPU commitment that can grow to $20bn, with the payment running both ways - Akamai handed its own customer a warrant for 7.7 million shares, the first it has ever issued.
SiliconANGLE: Akamai shares jumped more than 20% after hours RuntimeWire: only 2% of the warrant vests now, the rest on $9bn more

Oracle Invokes Force Majeure on a $165B Stargate Site
Oracle has told Blue Owl it wants the right to delay payments if Project Jupiter misses 2028 - the campus is OpenAI's, the gas pipeline has been rejected twice, and Oracle's lease book has grown sixfold to $288bn.
Semafor: $18bn of bank debt sits above $3bn of Blue Owl equity The Next Web: the gas pipeline was rejected twice, then pushed to February
Canberra Answers the Rogue Agent With Rules
A taskforce is running a rapid forensic review that will feed national AI standards, and Australia says it will impose guardrails over Trump-administration objections - three months after OpenAI told it nothing.
Guardian: 'there is more of this to come', Australian security experts warn Crawford and Santow: OpenAI doubled down, 'wait and see' is over
White House Tells Labs: Britain Waits Its Turn
The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from Britain's AI Security Institute until Washington reviews them - Anthropic already has, and AISI's director insists he still gets pre-release access to some frontier models.
Ghost Note Prize-Winning Novel Flagged '100% AI'