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A data center built inside an active mine in the Dolomites, in northeast Italy, has officially launched. The Intacture data center is located 100 meters (328 feet) underground in the Tuenetto di Predaia quarry, in the Val di Non, next to rooms that have been used for decades to s

Crusoe is set to invest around $10bn in data centers in Israel over the next ten to 15 years through leases. As reported by Globes, the US-based neocloud has signed another 100MW in data center leases in Israel, which, combined with its existing capacity agreements in the country

In late 2024 Saks Global started out with grand ambitions, forging a $2.7 billion deal that brought together luxury department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus Group and Bergdorf Goodman under one umbrella. On Friday, the company wrapped up the bankruptcy that became neces

The company behind a massive planned power cable to the UK is pivoting to plans for a large data center campus in Devon. Announced this week, Xlinks has proposed a large AI data and energy storage development at Alverdiscott, Devon. The campus comprises two separate planning prop

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States. In the 6-3 ruling, the U.S. top court said that “an

Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria this past weekend while the region sweltered under a heat dome. It was a weekend of unmet expectations: After such a strong performance in Barcelona, pundits were ready to declare Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton a proper title contender. T

A church close to a planned Amazon data center campus is considering selling up to a data center developer. As reported by the Prince William Times, the Manassas Church of the Brethren is reportedly weighing up an offer to sell its land to a data center developer. The land the ch

WhatsApp to let people chat without swapping phone numbers - Published WhatsApp is set to let people chat without having to reveal their phone number - by exchanging unique usernames instead. It will be rolled out globally to the platform's three billion account holders over the

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans’ health and location information to data brokers — including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data A revamped data privacy bill would limit

WhatsApp today announced a much-awaited feature: usernames, which will allow users to share their profiles without disclosing their phone number. However, WhatsApp will still require a phone number to create an account on the chat app. WhatsApp has been working on adding username

Taiwan’s National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) has launched a new supercomputer, Nano4. The new system provides enhanced AI computing resources for academia, government agencies, and industry users, according to a statement from NCHC. It was first announced last y

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud Security uses AI internally Chris Betz CISO, Google Cloud Ruchi Shah Senior Director, Security Engineering, Google Cloud Get original CISO insights in your inbox The latest on security from Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, twice a month

Synthesize the big picture and analyze trends with BigQuery's AI.AGG function Thomas Anchor Software Engineer Alicia Williams Developer Advocate We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG() , you can use natural-language instructions within a

Scaling Network Analysis for Fraud Prevention with BigQuery Graph Remy Pereira Data Scientist, Curve OS Ewan Zhang Data Customer Engineer, Google Based in the UK, Curve are building a financial super-app, a smart wallet that consolidates all your debit and credit cards into a sin

Rocket Lab Corporation, a rocket developer and launch operator, is to acquire Iridium Communications Inc., a large legacy satellite operator. Announced this week, Rocket Lab is buying all outstanding shares of Iridium common stock for $54 a share in cash and stock, representing a

Data center and hosting firm Patmos could be building a new data center development in Independence, Missouri. Reporting from the Kansas City Star has suggested that Patmos is under contract to buy a warehouse building at 2500 Little Blue Parkway for development into a data cente

AI agents are quickly moving beyond chat. They inspect code, run tests, read documents, search knowledge bases, query internal systems, and operate for hours on behalf of a user. This unlocks productivity, but can also give agents access to sensitive enterprise data and the abili

Color us officially intrigued by Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s forthcoming stop-motion animated fantasy film. Laika Studios released an extended teaser back in May, which has racked up nearly 90 million views. A full trailer is likely coming, but in the meantime, the studio

MetLife (MET) is well-positioned in the life insurance and benefits sector, exhibiting fundamental momentum that the broader market hasn't fully priced in. Backed by scale, brand equity, and an experienced leadership team, MetLife is firing on all cylinders. - Premium & Sales Gro

Rocket Lab announced on Monday that it is acquiring the satellite communications company Iridium. The deal, made for cash and shares of Rocket Lab stock, values Iridium at about $8 billion. The deal pairs the launch company, founded and led by Peter Beck, with a decades-old profi

The News The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that President Donald Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook while she contests his administration’s unproven allegations of mortgage fraud, dealing a crucial blow to his pressure campaign of the central bank. However, in a

Officials in Morgan County, Alabama, have approved a one-year moratorium on data center cryptomining projects, blocking a proposed Bitcoin mining facility near Somerville. The decision follows opposition from residents living close to the planned site. Put forward by VoltCore, th

Imagine this: The US military begins tracking a mysterious spacecraft maneuvering near one of the Space Force’s missile-warning satellites more than 22,000 miles over the equator. This US satellite cost several billion dollars to build and launch. It’s one of a handful of sentine

Rohan’s view Brian Roberts spent 24 years building Comcast into one of the largest conglomerates in the US, a juggernaut that owned the media on your screen, the pipelines that delivered it, and the platforms that served it up to you. Now Comcast is poised to undo all of it. The

A data center could be built in Norfolk, UK. First reported by the Norwich Evening News, Norwich Apex Ltd aims to develop a two-story building, substation, and a three-story office block on 13 hectares of land off Ipswich Road in Norwich. Norwich Apex secured planning permission

A couple of months ago, I sat across from my nine-year-old daughter’s teachers at a parent-teacher conference. They were kind but concerned. She takes her time on assignments, they said, she’s often deep in thought. How would she do on timed tests next year? I told them I wasn’t

Launch company Rocket Lab is buying satellite operator Iridium, putting it in a position to become a more full-fledged space services company and continuing a wave of consolidation in the industry. The deal, which hasn’t yet closed, will see Rocket Lab acquire Iridium’s stock for

When Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on the moon in March 2025, the lander downlinked nearly 120 gigabytes of raw data back to Earth — imagery and video captured by onboard cameras that scientists are still processing today. The company’s next lunar mission, Blue

Linux workloads are evolving quickly as organizations modernize on-premises Linux applications, adopt cloud-native architectures, and build new AI and data-intensive pipelines in the cloud. As this shift accelerates, teams need a managed file platform that delivers the performanc

Oil prices have fallen back sharply to near pre-war levels over recent weeks in response to a fragile truce between the U.S. and Iran, and diplomatic efforts to bring the conflict to a lasting conclusion. However, commodity strategists warned Monday that prices could reflect an o

Dive Brief: - Consumer spending rose 0.7% last month even as inflation sped up to the fastest pace in three years, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. - The personal consumption expenditures index increased 0.4% in May and 4.1% on an annual bas

Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth — and What to Do About It, by Samuel Moyn. A Yale law and history professor, Moyn argues that America’s oldest generations wield disproportionate power, leaving younger Americans with diminished opportunities and

Google has shared details of its planned "Project Skye" data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia. In a filing with the US Army Corps of Engineers, further information about the campus has been unveiled. According to the filing, Project Skye will sit on land south of Ge

AWS Compute Blog Building fault-tolerant multi-agent AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions Agentic AI workflows coordinate multiple agents that reason, plan, and act across multi-step processes. Each step is expensive, non-deterministic, and unpredictable in latency. Hum

CoreWeave Unveils Aria to Streamline AI Workflows for Data Centers The cloud company’s new AI tool analyzes training experiments, visualizes data, and automates insights as cloud providers expand beyond infrastructure. CoreWeave on Monday introduced Aria, an AI research agent des

South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support Investment fund dwarfs America's $52 billion semiconductor investment CHIPS Act South Korean

Databricks is now running at a stunning $6.9B revenue run-rate, growing 80%+ year over year, with AI products alone past a $1.7B run-rate and net retention above 140%. That gives co-founder Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji better visibility into what enterprises are actually doing with A

The 2026 Summer Reading List From a16z New Media's editorial team America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Alex Danco Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Topic: Obsession, Revenge, Seafaring, Whale Anatomy, How to negotiate startup equity, American Dynamism Length: 625 pages Where t

Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told TechCrunch i

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American Tower has dropped plans for an Edge data center in New Jersey. East Greenwich Township this month announced that American Tower had formally withdrawn its application and would no longer be pursuing approval of the proposed data center project before the Planning and Zon