🧨 Stargate: A $500B Dream That’s Still Mostly Vapor
So, remember Stargate? That massive $500 billion moonshot between OpenAI and SoftBank that was supposed to supercharge global AI infrastructure? Yeah, it’s not going great. Nearly half a year in, and not a single big data center site has been locked down. Not one.
They’ve managed to sketch out a pilot project in Ohio, but the rest? Still stuck in limbo. Internal sources say there’s tension, SoftBank and OpenAI can’t even settle on where to break ground. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s off doing side quests with Oracle and CoreWeave, signing deals left and right. If that’s not a red flag for Stargate’s direction, I don’t know what is.
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🏅 AI Cracks Olympiad Math - Twice
Okay, this is wild. Both OpenAI and Google DeepMind pulled off gold medal performance at the International Math Olympiad. We’re talking full-blown, top-tier, competition-level reasoning - solving five out of six problems under the same 4.5-hour rules as human contestants.
OpenAI posted its results first, but Google went the official route, working directly with IMO organizers for validation. It’s not just about solving math, it’s about abstraction, logic, structured thought. Stuff we used to think was strictly human.
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🤝 UK and OpenAI Make It Official
In what feels half like a handshake and half like a geopolitical statement, OpenAI and the UK government have launched a formal AI partnership. The goals? Invest in public compute, co-develop security tools, and apply models to everything from education to justice. The UK’s committing £1 billion to scale national AI infrastructure 20-fold.
OpenAI might even boost its London presence. It’s a win for Sunak, sure, but also stirs up concerns about British institutions leaning hard on American companies for public-sector tech.
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🏗️ Meanwhile, OpenAI Keeps Doubling Down with Oracle
While Stargate crawls, OpenAI’s moving faster elsewhere. The company and Oracle are tacking on 4.5 GW of compute capacity to their existing data-center buildout. That’s... a lot. Like “small country” levels of power.
They’re not shouting details yet, locations, timelines, partners, but if it all materializes, it would put this buildout among the biggest energy deployments in AI history.
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⚙️ GE Buys Alteia - Because AI Isn’t Just for Chatbots
And in quieter but very real news: GE Vernova just bought Alteia, a French AI startup focused on visual inspection of energy infrastructure. Their tech helps spot failing parts of power grids before they blow, think preventative maintenance, but smarter.
Alteia’s tools are getting folded into GE’s GridOS system. This is the side of AI most people don’t see, utility-grade intelligence that saves money, reduces downtime, and never trends on X.
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