Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in
Government and policy
Groq closes $350M Series A at $3.5bn evaluation and Nvidia joins the round
Investors and fundingLatest news
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed
Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and won a $40mn order from an unnamed cloud giant for hollow-core fibre, which carries light through air rather than glass. Its pitch: as AI data centres chase power across greater distances, the speed of light in the cable becomes a real constraint.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
Slack Code gives teams a dedicated channel where AI agents write, review and ship software in the open. Claude, ChatGPT, Devin and Copilot are all founding partners, and the feature is free on every plan. TNW reported in May that Marc Benioff wanted coding inside Slack next.
PRIVACY
Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
UK cinemas are restricting Meta smart glasses over film piracy, days after US schools and ICE barred them for entirely different reasons. None of these institutions coordinated. What they share is an inability to tell whether the person in front of them is recording.