Ethical proxy sourcing challenges: how to stay on the right side

Proxy servers aren’t exactly a high-profile tool – and yet, they power much of AI infrastructure. A proxy server is another device with its own IP address that you use to access the web. In aggreg [...]

Blackstone takes the majority position in Google’s new TPU cloud

The two have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google’s TPUs, with $5bn of Blackstone equity, $25bn total deal value including leverage, and 500 MW of ca [...]

Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due

Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its back [...]

Project Glasswing partners can now share Mythos findings beyond the programme

The Project Glasswing partners can now pass vulnerability findings to other security teams, industry bodies, regulators, open-source maintainers and the press, under responsible-disclosure norms. The [...]

Analog Devices near $1.5bn cash deal for Empower Semiconductor’s AI power chips

The Milpitas-based vertical-power-delivery firm puts more than 3,000 amps of current directly under the GPU. The deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Analog Devices is in advanced talks to acqu [...]

Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later thi [...]

Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch

The Paris-based open-weights lab is acquiring an Austrian startup whose models handle airflow, heat transfer, and material stress, targeting aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor customers. Terms w [...]

Standard Chartered will cut 7,800 back-office jobs to ‘the machines’ by 2030

Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank’s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-emp [...]

Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Mil [...]