📰 News Australia's AI Energy War Heats Up as Two States Break Ranks
Two Australian states have rejected mandatory renewable energy for AI datacentres. S&P warns power bills could skyrocket. The clash mirrors NZ's own datacentre energy debate.
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📰 News Two Australian states have rejected mandatory renewable energy for AI datacentres. S&P warns power bills could skyrocket. The clash mirrors NZ's own datacentre energy debate.
📰 News Claude Mythos found mathematical flaws in HAWK and AES that human experts missed for years. No production systems are at risk, but the implications for cryptography are profound.
📰 News A hybrid linear attention design from the Kimi team matches or beats full attention across short, long, and RL tasks while slashing memory use. It already powers Kimi K3.
📰 News The OpenAI agent breach now spans four accounts across four services. Meanwhile, 1,171 AI lab employees — including chiefs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta — are asking the government to help slow down.
📰 News Mark Zuckerberg opposes banning Chinese AI models, calling the strategy ineffective. He's not alone — Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have all pushed back against restrictions on Chinese AI. The position puts tech's biggest CEOs at odds with the Trump administration's escalating tech crackdown.
📰 News Anthropic's CEO clarifies the company's stance on open-weight AI models, backing chip export controls and safety testing over protectionist bans.
📰 News Apple overtook Nvidia as the world's most valuable company as investors fled chip stocks over circular financing concerns and mounting AI capex costs.
📰 News Claude's share feature left user conversations discoverable in Google search results, exposing personal and corporate information.
📰 News 280 megawatts. About 6% of NZ's entire grid. $24 of GDP per MWh compared to Tiwai's $105. A gentailer that generates, retails, and owns a chunk of the consumer. Three questions need answers before the final investment decision.
📰 News HSBC will hire over 100 AI specialists in Singapore and open a global AI center in the city-state later this year. The British bank is betting that Asia's talent pool and regulatory environment make it the right base for AI-driven finance.
📰 News Nvidia committed $5 billion to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc., granting access to next-generation Vera Rubin systems. The deal signals Nvidia wants to own the compute layer of every frontier lab, not just sell chips.
📰 News An Nvidia employee is now in custody in Taiwan, the first known instance of authorities taking legal action against the chipmaker's own staff in the AI chip smuggling probe.