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EU AI Gigafactory Plan Stumbles as Delays Alienate Partners

The EU’s plan for five AI gigafactory data centres is stumbling due to delays and funding gaps, with bidding pushed to July and only two of five centres fundable before 2028. Interest has narrowed from 70 companies to about 10, with SoftBank’s France deal alone dwarfing the entire programme.

Mercor's CEO says it now spends more on AI tokens than employee salaries

"I would bet that in five years the average enterprise spends more on compute than headcount," Mercor's CEO Brendan Foody said.

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Sam Altman dishes on OpenAI's top token user

The OpenAI CEO acknowledges that cost concerns have become a "huge issue."

Microsoft's Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000x more reliable, targets 2029

Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a quantum chip with qubits 1,000x more reliable than its predecessor, achieving a mean 20-second lifetime versus microseconds for competitors. Agentic AI via Microsoft Discovery accelerated the development, and Microsoft now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its original timeline.

Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

The National Center for Atmospheric Research won’t be losing its supercomputer.

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Perplexity splits AI inference between PCs and cloud to cut costs

Perplexity AI announced a platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI inference between PCs and cloud servers in real time, acting as an “air-traffic controller” for AI tasks. The chip-agnostic system targets the cost crisis of centralised inference as Perplexity’s revenue hits $500 million.

Microsoft unveils Project Solara: an OS for agent-first devices

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform for “agent-first devices” that run AI agents instead of traditional apps. Two concept devices, a wearable badge and desk companion, are being piloted with Best Buy, CVS Health, Levi’s, and Target.

Satya Nadella defends Microsoft AI data center plans against community backlash

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends AI data centers, pledging lower environmental impact, stable power costs, and local jobs.

Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

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Microsoft debuts Scout agent, homegrown reasoning model

Microsoft is seeking to show it is a serious player in AI.