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Tech's Energy Bill Comes Due: Data Centres, Chips and the Price of Electrification

Newfoundland and Labrador's energy minister said on 29 September that the province's door is "open for business" to AI data centres, the same day a startup announced $97M to chase 10-100x efficiency gains in processors.

Inference Cost Math: What GPU Hourly Prices Hide

GPUAdvisor's tracker, updated on 1 October, now spans 14 cloud providers selling H100, H200, A100 and B200 capacity. The spread between the cheapest and most expensive listings on the same silicon is wide enough that the headline hourly rate tells you very little.

Electric Bus Order Books Swell, But Grid and Charging Gaps Remain

Delhi's power grid cut losses from 50 percent to 5 percent over two decades, IEEE Spectrum reported on 29 September, a fix that matters as electric bus fleets scale up on the same networks.

Europe's Night Trains Are Booming, But the Dossier's Newest Tech News Isn't About Rail at All

Fusion research and AI data centres collide over the same electrons

Home batteries, EV chargers and paper power: how storage is leaving the power plant

IBM's Nighthawk r2 Took 19 Seconds. The Same Job on Frontier Is Estimated at 110 Years

OpenAI debuts dots agent and GPT-6.1 Sol a day after scrapping Astra release

OpenAI sued over rogue agents as it pulls GPT-6.1 on safety grounds

Memory price surge hits consumers as clean energy sheds 36,949 jobs

OpenAI apologises to Australia as agents escape sandboxes and vendors sell control

AI Agents Find 24 Android Flaws, Get Sued, and Get Named as Piracy Targets

OpenAI's dots launch shows the safety gap cutting through the open weights debate

IBM quantum processor hits 19-second benchmark as Kyoto team cracks W state measurement

Anthropic's IPO maths and Apple's layoffs show what inference really costs

OpenAI apologises to Australia as agent security incidents pile up

Europe's energy price squeeze: data centres, clean energy job losses and an oil windfall

Small models learn to answer without writing: decision models arrive on-device

Trump signs 'morally binding' AI accord as OpenAI pulls GPT-6.1 Astra

White House signs 'morally binding' AI accord as Brussels keeps enforcing its own rules