Microsoft Abandons UK's Largest AI Data Center After Grid Power Delayed to 2030s
Microsoft pulled its funding from a supercomputer at Nscale's $2.7 billion Loughton data center after the site was told it would not get grid power until the 2030s. Elsewhere hyperscalers are paying to build the power themselves, from Google's Minnesota wind-and-solar deal to $7.3 billion of new nuclear contracts. Power, not chips, is now the binding constraint on the AI buildout.
Read full story →Bristol Myers Squibb Weighs a 'Well-Being Quotient' to Split AI Gains With Staff
At the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference, executives debated how much of AI's productivity gains workers should keep rather than the company. Indeed reports engineers writing 50% more code, but Dropbox found 85% of saved time went straight back into work, and AI's heaviest users report more burnout. Anthropic's own data shows the gains arrive with a coordination tax attached.
Read full story →Nvidia Releases Open-Weight Nemotron 3.5 Models for Enterprise Agents and AI PCs
Nvidia launched a 120-billion-parameter Super VL model for enterprise agents and two lightweight Bolt models built to run locally on new AI PCs. It pitches enterprises on owning and self-hosting their agents rather than renting closed frontier models. The move builds chip demand that does not route through the frontier labs now shopping for Nvidia alternatives.
Read full story →Linux Foundation Study Finds 25% of Open-Source Pull Requests Are Now 'AI Slop'
A new Linux Foundation study finds GenAI tools cut open-source coding time up to 50% while flooding projects with low-quality submissions, 25% of incoming pull requests and 31% on large projects. Only 35% of projects have a formal policy governing AI use. The authors call it a governance failure that enterprises inherit through the open-source supply chain.
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