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Meta AI data centre construction site north of Edmonton Alberta Canada C$13 billion investment

Meta to Build C$13 Billion AI Data Centre in Alberta, Its First in Canada

Meta announced plans to build a C$13 billion AI data centre north of Edmonton, Alberta — its largest outside the US and its first in Canada. The announcement omits a timeline, power

July 10, 2026

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Silicon wafers used in semiconductor manufacturing, the foundational material Micron's $3 billion supply chain investment aims to secure domestically

Micron Pledges $3 Billion to Build Up US Semiconductor Supply Chain, Raises Total Investment to $250 Billion

Micron will spend up to $3 billion strengthening the domestic chip supply chain, including $500 million for GlobalWafers' Texas wafer plant, as part of a broader commitment now exceeding $250 billion in US investment through 2035.

July 9, 2026

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals acquires Crinetics Pharmaceuticals in a $10 billion biotech deal

Vertex’s $10 Billion Crinetics Takeover Signals Pharma’s Biggest Rare Disease Bet Yet

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is making its largest acquisition ever, placing a massive $10 billion bet on rare

Nothing Phone (4b) Brings a Huge 6,000mAh Battery, But Its “Repairable” Design Sparks Backlash

Nothing has officially expanded its smartphone lineup with the launch of the Nothing Phone (4b), a

Venice AI privacy-first artificial intelligence platform unicorn $1 billion valuation

Venice AI Hit $1 Billion Before Anyone in Silicon Valley Noticed It Existed

Venice AI raised $65 million in its first external round at a $1 billion valuation on Wednesday, two years after launching a privacy-first AI platform without outside investors and while generating more

July 2, 2026

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Gemini Spark Lands on Mac, and This Time It Wants Your Files

Google's agentic assistant Gemini Spark is now in beta on Mac, six weeks after being promised for summer. The bigger shift is not the platform, it is the access: Spark can now

July 2, 2026

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Anthropic Gets Fable 5 Back. The Reason It Was Taken Away Just Fell Apart.

The Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after three weeks, restoring global access starting July 1. Anthropic's own testing found rival models could replicate the exact

July 2, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

A Researcher Asked Claude to Bypass a Firewall. It Found a Way Into Every US Festival

Security researcher Ian Carroll found a SQL injection bug in Front Gate Tickets, the Live Nation subsidiary behind Bonnaroo and other major festivals. When a firewall blocked him, he asked Claude for

July 2, 2026

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Apple’s Hide My Email Has Hidden Almost Nothing for Over a Year, Researchers Say

A vulnerability that lets attackers unmask the real address behind any Hide My Email alias has gone unfixed for more than a year, researchers say. Apple has twice claimed to have patched

July 2, 2026

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Vint Cerf, Google vice president and co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols

Vint Cerf Is Retiring From Google. His Parting Warning Is About AI, Not the Past

Vint Cerf, who co-invented the internet's core protocols, is retiring from Google next week after 21 years. At his own send-off, he warned that AI agents talking to each other in plain

July 2, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

A fighter jet flies in formation near the SpaceX sign and Starship spacecraft at Starbase, Texas

Musk Denies SpaceX AI Device Report, Just Like He Denied It in February

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a phone-like AI device prototype ahead of its IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk called the report ‘utterly false,’ the same two-word denial pattern he

July 2, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Official PlayStation graphic announcing the end of physical game disc production starting January 2028

Sony to End Physical PlayStation Game Discs Starting in 2028

Sony will stop manufacturing physical discs for new PlayStation games starting January 2028, citing a shift to digital sales. The announcement leaves unanswered what becomes of PS5 disc drives and the used-game

July 2, 2026

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The Samsung SmartThings app open on a Galaxy phone beside a connected smart-home device

Samsung Is Charging Developers $5 a Month for SmartThings API Access. The Exact Limits Are Still a Mystery.

Samsung will require non-commercial developers to pay $4.99 a month for SmartThings API access starting in October 2026. The company has not published rate limits, call caps, or a clear definition of

July 2, 2026

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Meta AI datacenter infrastructure supporting new Meta Compute cloud business 2026

Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Excess AI Compute

Meta is building a cloud computing business to monetize surplus AI infrastructure, a move that sent its stock surging 8% while hammering shares of CoreWeave and Nebius — two firms that had

July 1, 2026

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Meta to Build C$13 Billion AI Data Centre in Alberta, Its First in Canada

Micron Pledges $3 Billion to Build Up US Semiconductor Supply Chain, Raises Total Investment to $250 Billion

Vertex’s $10 Billion Crinetics Takeover Signals Pharma’s Biggest Rare Disease Bet Yet

Nothing Phone (4b) Brings a Huge 6,000mAh Battery, But Its “Repairable” Design Sparks Backlash

Venice AI Hit $1 Billion Before Anyone in Silicon Valley Noticed It Existed

Gemini Spark Lands on Mac, and This Time It Wants Your Files

Anthropic Gets Fable 5 Back. The Reason It Was Taken Away Just Fell Apart.

A Researcher Asked Claude to Bypass a Firewall. It Found a Way Into Every US Festival

Apple’s Hide My Email Has Hidden Almost Nothing for Over a Year, Researchers Say

Vint Cerf Is Retiring From Google. His Parting Warning Is About AI, Not the Past

Musk Denies SpaceX AI Device Report, Just Like He Denied It in February

Sony to End Physical PlayStation Game Discs Starting in 2028

Samsung Is Charging Developers $5 a Month for SmartThings API Access. The Exact Limits Are Still a Mystery.

Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Excess AI Compute

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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