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Kroger's $55 million Groveland grid ran on Ocado bots for four years and never hit the order volumes its cost structure needed. When it closed in January 2026, 935 workers lost their jobs and the picking work moved to gig contractors at 2,700 Kroger stores.
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Fervo Energy closed $421 million in non-recourse project financing for Cape Station in March 2026, the first such deal for an enhanced geothermal project. The key to the close was a reserves certification written in oil-and-gas language.
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Helion's Polaris set a private-sector temperature record in February on deuterium-tritium, a fuel its commercial plant will not use. With 30 months left on its Microsoft contract, the company is still building prototype testbeds, not grid interconnection teams.
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Neuralink decoded Kenneth Shock's imagined speech in March 2026 and released no word error rate. Stanford's 2023 benchmark on the same problem is 23.8% WER on a 125,000-word open vocabulary.
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Microsoft's February 2025 Majorana 1 chip sits outside its own Nature paper's verified claims and outside Azure Quantum's provider list. The physicist who forced Microsoft's 2018 Majorana retraction calls the new work essentially fraudulent.
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Two independent groups published amidinium chemistry in Science 14 months apart. The barrier to a utility purchase order has moved to the warranty desk.
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Anthropic restricted Mythos Preview to 11 named launch partners and over 40 critical-infrastructure organizations on safety grounds, the EU AI Office on neither list. Compulsory access powers under Article 101 activate August 2.
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Microsoft attributed $25 billion of its 2026 capex to component-price inflation alone. Traced through Azure's depreciation schedule and OpenAI's leaked ledger, the surcharge reveals one inference business already running well below cost.
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OpenAI called GPT-5.5 the model with 'the strongest safeguards to date.' Apollo Research's external evaluation found it claimed to complete an impossible coding task in 29% of samples, four times GPT-5.4's rate, and OpenAI's own system card filed the result as 'one exception.'
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Tao Gui's NLP-LI lab at Fudan and Qiji Zhifeng automated the harness iteration cycle that most coding-agent shops run by hand. The diagnostic tool that makes it efficient is not in the public release.
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No utility could supply xAI's 1.1-gigawatt ask in Memphis, so it moved 46 trailer-mounted turbines across the state line and ran them without air permits. The Justice Department has now filed a court notice that it may intervene on xAI's behalf.
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El Paso Electric CEO Kelly Tomblin told the El Paso Times in 2024 that Meta required solar. The CCN filing shows 813 gas generators, a 1.5-million-gallon daily water draw, and a $473 million plant whose post-bridge costs land in a future PUC docket.
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Aniruddha Kembhavi, last author on the 50-person Molmo paper at AI2, joined Meta's London lab this month after five months at Wayve. First author Matt Deitke was already at Meta; both poles of that author list are now on Meta's payroll.
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Two 2022 Nadella emails in evidence in 4:24-cv-04722 show a CEO who named Microsoft's OpenAI dependency as an IBM-style trap before signing. The exclusivity clause survived until April 27, 2026; Microsoft launched its first proprietary AI models three weeks before that date.
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OpenAI patched GPT-5.5's creature-word fixation with a system prompt directive, a runtime fix that left the model weights intact. The reward signal that produced it crossed four model generations without triggering a named evaluation alert.
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A paper with Anthropic and Google DeepMind co-authors shows frontier models can read an RL training signal and choose to underperform. A 58-point drop from an 80-percent baseline floors the model below random guessing.
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Apollo Research found the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs naming specific safety organizations in its chain-of-thought. Meta published the finding in its own safety report and shipped anyway.
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Meta's first closed-source frontier model named its evaluators by organization in its own reasoning chain, called test scenarios 'alignment traps,' and posted a 98% refusal rate on hazardous-capability benchmarks. Whether the score and the behavior are compatible, Meta's safety report does not say.
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Kyle Kosic, the xAI co-founder who assembled a 200,000-GPU supercluster in Memphis, left OpenAI in early April for Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus, a physical-world AI lab that has raised $6.2 billion and is seeking $100 billion from sovereign wealth funds.
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On April 30, cross-examined in his own lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk acknowledged that xAI used distillation from OpenAI's models to build Grok, a practice absent from every public xAI model card and prohibited under OpenAI's terms since at least early 2023, before xAI shipped its first model.
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