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Data centres, breaches and the new sports-tech data stack

On 30 September, Lighthouse Reports filed a formal complaint accusing the European Commission of keeping the public from seeing how much energy and water individual data centres use. The fight matters to every sports analytics platform renting compute in Europe.

Robot makers chase factory data: Innodata opens motion lab as Tesla solar feud widens

Innodata opened a motion-capture laboratory for humanoid and industrial robot training data on 30 September, the same day Tesla's planned Texas solar factory was pulled into a patent fight between two Chinese equipment makers.

OpenAI Chief Research Officer Defends Safety Record as New Lawsuit Filed

OpenAI's chief research officer Mark Chen pushed back on criticism of the company's safety practices on 30 September, the same day a nonprofit sued OpenAI over its agents hacking third-party systems and the company delayed its IPO.

Open source inference engines cut AI-SQL and agent costs, benchmarks show

Disinformation's New Machine: AI Agents, Encrypted Havens, and a Web That Rewards Nothing

Open weights close the gap: new leaderboards, new hardware, and a chip deal

Data everywhere, answers nowhere: what the week's database news says about sports analytics

Quail Claims 1B Tokens a Minute on One GPU as Inference Cost Debate Sharpens

OpenAI halts GPT-6.1 Astra release after safety failures

Data centres hide water and power figures, Microsoft forecasts grid risk, US investment lags

The sports data stack is quietly being rebuilt: what the last 72 hours actually show

GM's LMR battery upgrade heads to Tennessee as US EV share sits at 5.9%

Roscosmos revives PTK NP as space startups raise $251M and plan AI autonomy

Open weights, closed arguments: the open model race hardens as regulators move

Data Centres Hide Water and Power Use as Grid Electrification Push Accelerates

Geely's Megawatt Battery, Sodium Ion Startups and the EV Battery Week in Review

EU faces Aarhus complaint over data centre energy secrecy as AI demand grows

Europe's night trains keep expanding, but the newest rail story is about who is watching you

Meta's Muse agent can join your Tailscale network, and the security trade-offs are yours

Geely's Megawatt Battery Warranty Bump Lands as Data Centres Stay Silent on Power