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March 23, 2026
The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids
As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.
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March 17, 2026
Two Literal Crypto Bros Built a Real Estate Empire. Then the Homes Started to Fall Apart
In 2019, two Canadian brothers blew into Detroit with an irresistible pitch: For $50, almost anyone could become a property owner. When houses decayed and the city intervened, the blame games began.
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March 11, 2026
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
After leaving Meta last year, the former deputy prime minister of the UK is charting a new path in the AI industry that has nothing to do with AGI.
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March 2, 2026
The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle
As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators are flooding north in search of cheap and plentiful energy.
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February 26, 2026
OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
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February 20, 2026
They Bet Against Trump's Tariffs. Now They Stand to Make Millions
After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade.
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February 17, 2026
The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure.
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February 11, 2026
AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris.
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February 4, 2026
Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.
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January 29, 2026
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mi...
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January 28, 2026
No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the ‘Offline Club’
Across Europe’s largest cities, people are gathering for semi-silent, offline hangouts, in search of an experience that isn’t mediated through their smartphones.
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January 19, 2026
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent.
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