Talk Fuse

    Topic: AI

    Artificial intelligence covers the systems, tools and policies shaping how software can generate content, analyse information and make decisions. The topic follows new models and products, the companies building them, and their growing influence across work, media, entertainment and everyday technology.

    It also examines the trade-offs: security, reliability, accountability, jobs and the rules being proposed to govern powerful systems. For readers, AI is increasingly not a niche technology story but a lens on how digital services and institutions are changing.

    • US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease

      S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago The US stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased. The S&P 500 shot up 1.8%, and the main measure of…

    • SpaceX has more neocloud revenue

      SpaceX’s AI division saw revenue more than triple to $2.6 billion, driven largely by deals to supply computing power to other AI firms, positioning the company as a competitor to “neocloud” providers such as CoreWeave. Despite the surge in AI income, the division still posted a $1.5 billion loss for the quarter, though this was…

    • SpaceX doubles revenues on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

      SpaceX has doubled its revenue year-on-year, driven largely by the growth of its Starlink satellite internet service and new deals renting out computing power to AI firms Anthropic and Google. The results, disclosed in the company’s first quarterly earnings report since going public, offer an early look at the financial performance behind what was the…

    • Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

      Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered a moratorium on new data centre connections to the state’s power grid, just months after promoting Texas as the “epicentre of AI development”. The move directs the Public Utility Commission of Texas and grid operator ERCOT to audit all data centre projects currently seeking grid access, amid concerns that…

    • Spotify says it doesn’t need deals with all the majors to launch its AI covers and remixes tool

      Spotify has said it does not need licensing agreements with all three major record labels before launching its AI-powered covers and remixes tool, according to Co-CEO Gustav Söderström on the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call. The comments came shortly after Spotify announced a licensing deal with Merlin, the body representing independent labels, adding to its…

    • Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

      A new report from AI safety nonprofit SaferAI finds that GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China’s Z.ai, is now only a few months behind frontier systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 in cyber and biological capabilities. This matters because, unlike closed models, open-weight systems can be downloaded and run on private hardware,…

    • Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

      Anthropic has reportedly agreed a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing deal with AI infrastructure startup Volta, the latest in a string of major compute partnerships as it races to expand capacity amid fierce competition with rival AI labs. The agreement, first reported by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, underscores the scale of investment AI companies are…

    • Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

      A new app called Wrinkles uses a smartphone’s location to automatically surface historical and cultural stories about nearby places, functioning as an AI-powered audio tour guide that lets users explore without staring at their screens. Available on iOS and Android, it was co-founded by advertising executive David Stemler and serial entrepreneur Ryan Hansan, childhood friends…

    • Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

      Nvidia-led industry group the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), formed only a week ago, has already established a working group called the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) and put forward its first proposals for open comment. The rapid progress matters because it signals the tech industry is moving quickly to build shared, open-source infrastructure for…

    • DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations

      The US Department of Justice has secured a $3.2 million settlement from OpenAI and one of its subsidiaries over allegations that the company discriminated against American workers by favouring applicants on temporary employment visas. Investigators found that OpenAI failed to properly advertise certain roles on its public jobs website during the Permanent Labor Certification process,…