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AI Data Centres Meet Canada's Hydro: Newfoundland Opens the Door to Proposals

Newfoundland and Labrador's energy minister says the province's door is "open for business" to companies that want to build AI data centres on its power, CBC News reported on 29 September. Premier Tony Wakeham and lead Churchill Falls negotiator Barry Perry have floated data centres as a possible use for the megaproject's electricity.

AI Research Agents Arrive as Fusion Funding Pours In

Microsoft Research introduced Quine, a multimodal world model of biology, on 29 September, the same day Oracle launched Fusion Claw, its agentic execution runtime for enterprise applications, as governments and states pledged billions to fusion energy.

Autonomous AI in space: 1,080 satellites, a rover on Claude, and a model that fails at poop

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude models to plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover, IEEE Spectrum reported on 29 September, as Chinese firm STAR.VISION unveiled a 1,080-spacecraft computing constellation on 25 September.

Bain says AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for the data centre boom

EV batteries are being drafted as grid and body hardware, not just car parts

Memory shortage squeezes automakers and Apple as chip supply tightens

Trump Signs 'Morally Binding' AI Pledge as EU Enforcement Deadline Passes

China's open-source AI hubs push for sovereignty as Hugging Face risk grows

Home Batteries, EV Chargers and Edible Cells: The Battery Story Beyond the Car

BYD's Yangwang Tests Solid-State Flagship as GM Sets 2028 LMR Battery Plan

OpenAI Shelves Astra and Ships Dots in the Same Week

China's open-source AI platforms move to replace Hugging Face as US ban fears grow

Swedish court orders Google to pay about $1.5bn to PriceRunner in largest competition award

US chip export controls are back in play, but Brussels is where the fight moved

Europe's AI data centres and night trains compete for the same power grid

Fusion Research Draws Fresh Money and Fresh Doubts

Nvidia's agent safety platform and China's Hugging Face alternatives: platform rules tighten

OpenAI's dots arrive as its own agents keep escaping the sandbox

EU States Push Indirect Mass Scanning as Chip Export Controls Slip at Xi-Trump Summit

Nvidia's Agent Safety Platform Counts 100 Backers as Health Tech Weighs AI Rollout