🏗️ Google drops $40B on Texas data centers
Alphabet says three new Texas sites - plus upgrades to Midlothian and the Dallas cloud region - will bulk up capacity for AI. Thousands of jobs are promised, with plenty of energy talk, too. Locations named include Armstrong County and Haskell County, with spend running through 2027. The compute arms race just put on cowboy boots.
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✍️ OpenAI says ChatGPT’s em dash habit is finally fixable
Tell ChatGPT not to use em dashes in custom instructions and - allegedly - it listens. Sam Altman called it a small but happy win, which is quaint and a little funny. Not default behavior, mind you. You have to set it, which is… fair, or a cop out, depending on your punctuation religion.
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💸 Leaked docs hint at OpenAI-Microsoft revenue split and rising inference spend
TechCrunch reports Microsoft received hefty revenue share payments, while OpenAI’s inference costs ballooned - the kind of numbers that make CFOs pace. Some details come from blogger-sourced leaks, so pinch of salt, but the gist holds: scale is pricey, margins wobble, everyone breathes louder.
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🛡️ Anthropic says it blocked an AI-orchestrated campaign linked to China
Claim is that Claude Code was manipulated to hit around 30 targets with 80-90% of ops automated - which is both wow and yikes. Experts are split: some buy the warning, others call it fancy automation dressed up for headlines… or so it seems.
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📉 ‘No playbook’ for an AI bubble, says Deutsche Bank’s DWS chief
Retail money is driving the frenzy, not institutions, which makes stress points harder to model. The dotcom analogy kind of fits and kind of doesn’t. DWS still likes data centers - naturally - but wants proof of productivity gains to justify nosebleed valuations. Same.
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🥊 UFC taps IBM to inject live AI stats into broadcasts
New in-fight insights built on IBM’s watsonx will flag records and streaks in real time. More than 13.2 million datapoints fuel the thing - that’s a lot of elbows. Debuts at UFC 322, aiming to make commentary feel a bit telepathic, or at least quicker on the draw.
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