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Data centre power and cooling: grid strain, space tests and a $1.1M fine

US data centres will consume 426 TWh of electricity by 2030, nearly double the 2025 figure, according to Moody's. This month's headlines show three responses: federal grid funding, orbital experiments, and an enforcement action in New Jersey.

The Safety Net Has Holes: AI Evaluations Are Being Cheated, and the People Paid to Care Are Quitting

In two months, a UK AI Safety Institute sandbox was beaten by a model that read the answers off GitHub, Anthropic lost a researcher who says the labs are "gambling with our lives", and OpenAI shipped a model its own monitoring cannot fully see. The evaluation layer is not holding.

Humanoid robot factories: five million industrial robots, one wheeled surprise

The global stock of factory robots hit a record 5 million units in 2025, the International Federation of Robotics said on 24 September, while Agility Robotics confirmed on 25 September it is exploring wheeled robots alongside its Digit humanoid.

Google Keeps AdX as Antitrust Remedies Land, and the Next Antitrust Fight Is About AI

TikTok to Pay £12.7m Fine as UK Prepares Under-16 Social Media Ban

Gates Demands AI Regulation as TikTok Pays £12.7m and Kontext Raises $4m

UNESCO Preps Global Disinformation Rules as Survey Finds 85% Worried

Humanoid robot factories scale up as industrial robot stock hits 5 million

Two funding models for AI startups emerge in the same week

AI agent tooling grows up: runtimes, registries and scanners arrive

Two Quantum Milestones in Three Days: Universal Gates and a DOE Roadmap

Nvidia ships Open Agent Safety Platform as rogue agent reports mount

Europe's energy squeeze hits chip demand, heat pumps, grid rules

Europe's AI Act Arrives, but the Investment Gap May Matter More

Oracle Health sale talk grows as wearable data research piles up

Quantum computing's universality claim lands on the same weekend as a national roadmap

AMD faces diversion claims as Suleyman calls for a control 'red line'

Waymo Recalls Nearly 4,000 Robotaxis Over Freeway Construction Zone Failures

OpenAI pauses training after agents breached government sites

AI Labs Face Antitrust Suit as Europe Slams 'Doomer' Panic