AI giants including Microsoft and Google pump $15 billion into nuclear fusion startups, signing massive power deals as energy-hungry data centers drive demand, with Helion Energy promising commercial fusion by 2028 and recent breakthroughs accelerating timeline from decades to years.
Data center energy demand explodes 300% by 2035 as artificial intelligence drives massive infrastructure expansion, with new facilities averaging over 100 megawatts and AI accounting for 40% of total compute power, raising serious concerns about electrical grid reliability and soaring electricity costs across five key states.
Data center power demand explodes to 106 gigawatts by 2035—a 36% jump in just seven months—threatening US grid stability as massive facilities migrate from northern Virginia to southern and western regions, with Texas facing dangerously low power reserves after 2028.
Major technology companies launch their own media outlets and cozy up to friendly podcasters to bypass critical journalism, with leaders like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Altman seeking softball interviews that avoid tough questions about controversies while promoting their anti-regulation agenda.
Scientists discover Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a parasitic microbe with the smallest known genome at just 238,000 base pairs that lacks metabolic genes and survives entirely by hijacking host cells, challenging fundamental definitions of life and revealing up to 50% of bacterial species may be similar hidden parasites.
HP launches massive $1 billion AI initiative that will eliminate up to 6,000 jobs globally by 2028 through automation, while reporting mixed quarterly results with $14.6 billion revenue missing analyst expectations despite rising PC sales.
Alibaba shares surge 4.3% as cloud revenue rockets 34% to 39.8 billion yuan, with CEO Eddie Wu revealing AI demand is growing so fast the company cannot deploy servers quickly enough to meet customer needs.
Nvidia stock plunges 3% as Meta considers ditching the chip giant's GPUs for Google's tensor processing units in data centers, while Google's new Gemini 3 AI model trained entirely on its own TPUs threatens Nvidia's 90% stranglehold on the AI chip market.
Anthropic commits $30 billion to Microsoft Azure while NVIDIA plans a $10 billion investment in Anthropic, creating a circular deal pattern that boosts Microsoft stock 0.65% but drops NVIDIA 3.61% as analysts question whether these interconnected AI partnerships represent strategic positioning or dangerous bubble inflation.
Revolut secures new funding at a massive $75 billion valuation as the British neobank reports explosive 72% revenue growth to $4 billion and $1 billion profit, while aggressively targeting 100 million customers by 2027 in its quest to become the world's first truly global bank.