2026-10-07ProductMorningGoogle launches Playground, an experimental platform for building games from text promptsThe browser-based platform is live for U.S. adults, with creation access tiered by Google One membership and a Unity Spark integration promised for more advanced projects.3 min read→
2026-10-06EnergyMorningGoogle pays for nuclear uprates at 11 Constellation reactors to add 890 MW to the PJM gridGoogle's new power purchase agreement with Constellation finances turbine, steam generator and control upgrades at six existing plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The extra 890 MW arrives before the end of 2032, and Constellation will use Gemini Enterprise agents to plan the work.4 min read→
2026-10-05BusinessMorningChatGPT ads get third-party attribution as OpenAI expands ad measurementDoubleVerify now measures ChatGPT Ads inside its attribution tool and is building a brand-suitability pilot with OpenAI that does not touch private conversations.3 min read→
2026-10-01BusinessMorningBarclays bets on Claude Code for half its developers by year-end, after RAG and email triageThe bank's 50% target is a forecast. What is already running: an internal RAG assistant used by 16,000 staff and a Claude pipeline that routes 120,000 emails a day.3 min read→
2026-09-28SecurityMorningNVIDIA wants agent guardrails outside the agent: OpenShell goes open source, Sentry moves checks into the DPUThe Open Agent Safety Platform pairs an Apache 2.0 sandbox runtime that works with existing coding agents and a BlueField-4 watchdog that ties the strongest guarantees to NVIDIA hardware.5 min read→
2026-09-25ProductMorningMicrosoft rebuilds Copilot around Home, Code and Autopilot, and puts the agents on metered billingThe new Copilot app merges Chat and Cowork, lets non-developers build apps that run inside the tenant, and adds an always-on agent. Most of it is still weeks away, and the agentic parts bill by usage.5 min read→
2026-09-22Developer toolsMorningTransformers now loads GGUF checkpoints without unpacking themHugging Face wired llama.cpp's own ggml Metal kernels into transformers so quantized GGUF files run with their weights still packed. The scope is deliberately narrow: Apple Silicon, and Qwen3.5 dense and MoE to start.4 min read→
2026-09-21InfrastructureMorningABB launches Infinitus, a source-to-rack DC portfolio for AI data centersThe Swiss electrification group says its new direct-current portfolio is built for racks drawing 1 MW, up from almost 200 kW today. Main components are 12 months out; complete DC-native facilities, two to three years.3 min read→
2026-09-18BusinessMorningSK hynix names its venture arm, and points it past memoryThe memory maker's corporate venture operation has been running since 2015. What is new is the mandate: AI computing, data centers, system software and optical interconnect. No fund size was disclosed.3 min read→
2026-09-17InfrastructureMorningGoogle is buying green steel's certificates, not its steelGoogle will take environmental attribute certificates covering up to 91,000 metric tons of Stegra's first-year output in Boden, Sweden, against the embodied carbon of data center construction. The physical steel goes to someone else, who must make no green claims about it.3 min read→
2026-09-15Model releaseMorningSalesforce built its own reasoning model on NVIDIA's open weightsKoa is post-trained from Nemotron-3-Super-120B and goes into Agentforce as an alternative to rented frontier models. The accompanying technical report is unusually candid about where it lands.5 min read→
2026-09-14ProductMorningApple ships Siri AI in beta, on models it built with GoogleiOS 27 is out and the rebuilt Siri is with it — labelled beta, powered by Apple Foundation Models that Apple says were custom-built with Google's Gemini, and absent in both the EU and China.6 min read→