AI business roundup: Microsoft's 38 GW plan, TSMC's record August, Anthropic's IPO path and the agent governance push that shaped the week.
Our weekly tech roundup: Apple's 2nm iPhone 18 Pro, record GPU prices, OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro pause and a crowded September device calendar.
D-Robotics Series C raises $400M to scale Sunrise robot-AI chips and RDK kits, as the Horizon Robotics unit targets volume robot manufacturing.
Huawei pulls the Ascend 960DT to Q1 2027, adds the Atlas 960 SuperPoD and Near-Packaged Optics, and bets on cluster scale over a single die.
Hyundai Data Flywheel is live: a seven-million-car data loop, a dual-track plan to Level 2++, and a 100 MW data centre with 50,000 GPUs from 2029.
Anthropic's Life Sciences Verification Program grants vetted labs more permissive biology safeguards as Claude optimises 30+ biomolecular models.
Waymo Singapore robotaxi service launches in 2028, its first Southeast Asia market, with I-PACE cars due in late 2026 and mapping through 2027.
Amazon Connect Talent runs AI-led interviews, science-backed assessments and traceable scoring for high-volume hiring, while recruiters keep the final call.
Stripe OpenRouter acquisition: $7.5 billion buys the meter for AI inference rather than a model. The valuation math, trade-offs and who it affects.
The AI funding tracker covers 24 deals, led by Cohere's US$2-3B Series E, Anthropic's Nasdaq IPO plans and debt-funded compute buildouts.
Helpfeel's Gyazo data breach exposed 23.62 million user records and 490 million image metadata entries. Here's what leaked and what affected users should do.
Novo Nordisk Claude Science deal puts Anthropic's frontier models inside drug R&D and internal software, with governance and human oversight built in.
Steam Frame price starts at $1,059 as Valve blames the AI memory crisis, with a reservation lottery and unchanged Steam Deck 2 plans.
HP ZBook Ultra G3a packs 192GB of unified memory and 160GB of GPU-addressable VRAM to run 300B-parameter AI models locally in a 16-inch chassis.
Oregon data center power demand hit 23% of state retail electricity in 2025, and a 1-cent-per-kWh premium now applies to loads of 100 MW or more.
