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AWS holds the cheaper H100, but utilisation decides your inference bill

AWS lists an H100 at $6.88 an hour against $10.98 on Google Cloud, a 37% gap that matters far less than the fourfold swing between a busy GPU and an idle one, according to pricing checked on 28 September.

Nobody has a working sports data analytics playbook yet

The newest item in this dossier is a Bain and Company report from 29 September. It estimates the AI industry needs $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify its data centre buildout. Nobody has squared that figure with what sports, fitness and performance analytics actually earn.

Electric bus orders surge as truck cost data and policy deadlines reshape fleets

SWITCH Mobility has secured an order for 840 electric buses for Delhi's public transit fleet under India's PM E-Drive scheme, according to reports published on 28 September, while a new analysis says electric trucks are already the cheapest option in six of nine major EU markets.

Nvidia's agent safety platform launches as insurers weigh AI that can act on its own

OpenAI launches dots agent a day after grounding Astra over safety failures

China Extends Travel Curbs to Families of Top AI Staff

BYD Tests Coach-Door Flagship as Solid-State Race Tightens

Nvidia opens its agent safety stack as China's open-model hubs build a parallel layer

Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua board as auto chip supply tightens

Search is turning into a conversation, and publishers' traffic answers are changing

Infection study and respiration research dominate a week of health science

OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, Then Ships 'Dots' Agent Powered by GPT-6

Anthropic's $42B Loss and Cloud Commitments Meet a Memory Shortage Reaching Apple

Space-Based Computing and Autonomous AI Are Rewriting Mission Science

Trump signs 'morally binding' AI accord as Brussels enforces its own rulebook

China's Open-Source AI Push Meets Agent Safety Rules

Electrification could cut global energy demand 40%, but Europe still faces a costly decade

Infection-linked cancers, breathing and reaction time: what the newest studies actually show

China's Export Controls Tighten From Chip Fabs to AI Talent to Robot Factories