OpenAI kills Sora, becomes product assassin
…Like so many AI products, Sora was capable of creating revolting content and blatant copyright abuse. OpenAI tidied up those messes and then signed a deal with Disney that saw the House…
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Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M
…ease its AI datacenter financing challenges. It said equity and debt investors are increasingly questioning how Oracle will finance its datacenter building program. The bank estimates that the OpenAI deal alone will…
Microsoft, Nvidia claim AI speeds approval of nuclear plants
…Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects. Announcing the move on…
Oracle may slash jobs to keep AI datacenter plans on track
…300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors 18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year In September, Oracle issued…
Washington reportedly moves to put AI chips on tighter leash
…would require chipmakers to obtain government approval before exporting AI chips to any country, effectively giving Washington a stranglehold on AI compute supply. News site Axios says a 129-page draft is…
Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal
…Nutanix's move to expand its HCL is helped by its decision to allow independent scaling of compute and storage nodes. The latter have rigorous I/O requirements that mean only certain…
Trump fills science-tech panel with tech bros
…John Martinis, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led a team to develop a quantum computer at Google's Quantum AI Lab. This is in contrast to…
Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg
…Sir Nick is also a General Partner at Hiro Capital, a private equity investor focused on emerging tech including AI, robotics, and spatial computing. According to Nscale, the Cleggster brings "deep expertise…
AI gets good at finding bugs, not as good at fixing them
…AI and from people. "The maintainers of curl closed their program two months ago or something like that because they just got too many false positives and they couldn't deal with…
Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no
…in defense of its position. But in 2026, with people exposing their computers to AI agents and Mozilla exploring AI integration in Firefox, perhaps the worries about Web Serial look less significant…