OpenAI has hired the three co-founders of the AI coaching tool Convogo, according to a report. The move continues a trend of the company absorbing teams and shutting down their products to bolster its own ecosystem.
A hyperscale data center called Project Jupiter is planned for the New Mexico desert, backed by $165 billion in bonds. But its massive thirst for water and power from gas-fired plants is sparking a major environmental fight.
DoiT is expanding its cloud cost optimization tools into the data platform arena with the acquisition of Select. The move aims to give customers visibility and automated control over their Snowflake spending, a major and often opaque cost center.
Microsoft has completely abandoned its controversial plan to impose strict daily recipient limits on Exchange Online mailboxes. The company faced significant pushback from customers who said the 2,000-recipient cap would break legitimate business workflows and integrations.
AWS has increased the price of its GPU instances for machine learning by about 15 percent. The move, which happened over the weekend without warning, marks a significant shift from the company’s typical price reductions.
NASA has begun a massive, multi-year project to move its Earth science data archives to commercial cloud platforms. The migration, expected to run through 2026, aims to handle new high-volume missions and place data closer to powerful compute resources. By 2030, the archive is projected to hold over
Google is spending billions to secure power for its AI ambitions, buying energy firm Intersect. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s xAI is also expanding its compute capacity. The race for AI infrastructure is hitting a hard wall: the electrical grid.
Octopus Energy has formally spun out its AI-powered utility platform, Kraken, in a deal that values the tech company at €7.3 billion. The move follows an €850 million funding round led by D1 Capital Partners and establishes Kraken as a fully independent entity.
Microsoft and NVIDIA used the 2025 Ignite conference to showcase a deep integration of their AI stacks. Key announcements included Blackwell GPUs on Azure, Omniverse libraries, and a link between NVIDIA’s NeMo and Microsoft Agent 365. The push is clearly towards making advanced, agentic AI a practic
The Trump administration has halted five major offshore wind projects, including Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia project. Dominion has filed a lawsuit, calling the move “arbitrary and capricious.” The administration cited national security but provided no details.
