The Product Desk
Enterprise software and the craft of shipping it: launches, pricing, and what users actually do.
Classic and Open will both run during the Modern Warfare 4 beta while the studio gathers data. The numbers published so far favour Classic; creators say the sample is the wrong sample.
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A $1bn platform seeded with ten converted Cogent facilities takes about a quarter of Cogent's installed power from ten of its 185 sites. The bet is on interconnection, not slab.
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Pew found 23% of adults 65 and over use ChatGPT, up from 10% a year earlier. Age-cohort variants are now a product surface, and that cohort does not have one.
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A five-year, $400 million offtake covers roughly 4.75MW at Bitdeer AI's Malaysian A102 facility. The contracted-before-energization structure is becoming the price of building at all.
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SIPP Power is taking land in JLand's Sedenak Tech Park West with an option on 400 acres more. The headline capacity number appears to be doing double duty across two campuses.
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The figure is self-reported and blends work already moved back with work about to be. It is still the closest thing operators have to a benchmark for their own failed automations.
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Four buildings, 808,000 sq ft, finishing in the third quarter of 2028. The client, the state and the campus count are all undisclosed, and the booking still tells you more than a pipeline release.
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Agent OS wires AI agents into live trading through MCP, sub-accounts and payment APIs. The scope a user grants, not the model behind it, is now the control surface.
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Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI only to edit her op-ed on Berkeley admissions. A Pangram reading of roughly 33% moved the story anyway, which is a byline problem, not a detection one.
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The News Bargaining Incentive taxes advertising revenue whether or not a platform carries news. LinkedIn's late addition shows the scope is set by the ad line, not by self-image.
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A UK consultancy says its invoicing software went up more than sixteenfold after Bending Spoons took over. The pricing model changed a year ago; customers on annual terms are only finding out now.
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Compliant Technologies pitches its electric glove as compliance without the bad video. The specification being sold is not less pain, it is less evidence.
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PostHog asked Claude, Cursor and its own assistant the same revenue question and got three answers. Its remedy was a governed catalog of definitions stored as ordinary SQL tables.
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The West Lake humanoids do perception, guidance and voice, then hand every infraction to a human officer. The scope cut is the most transferable part of the deployment.
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Nori Robotics put a wheeled, 19-degree-of-freedom humanoid on sale for less than 2 percent of a typical six-figure platform. The spec sheet shows exactly where the money went missing.
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Regulation Crypto Assets pairs two offering exemptions with a way out of the investment-contract test. The White House lunch the next day was the political weather, not the rule.
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A devops.com argument that "implement AI everywhere" is the old "automate everything" push in new clothing rests on one number that should end survey-based adoption decisions.
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Wang Xingxing says a robot should complete about 80% of voice or text instructions in a house it has never seen. He also says the software may be a decade away.
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Arturo Bejar testified in Oakland that Meta's internal culture made wellbeing features practically impossible to ship. That turns a four-state consumer case into an argument about how product orgs run.
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Microsoft quit its subsea program in 2024. China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea kept building, and the open questions are marine impact, maintenance access and who issues the permit.
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The Odense startup's seed is roughly 3.7 times the pre-seed it closed in February. The budget line it sells against is visibility into shadow AI, not new AI capability.
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Eight months after a failed engine reignition destroyed its first attempt, LandSpace landed Zhuque-3's stainless-steel first stage in Gansu. The fix cycle is the story, not the milestone.
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New agents scan, triage and open the pull request, leaving a developer to approve. The virtual patching alongside them is the tell: fixes average 50 days, exploits can land in six hours.
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EDP Renewables North America and Redwood Coast Energy Authority put a 92 MW / 368 MWh battery inside the existing 300 MW Sandrini Solar site in Kern County. The structure matters more than the size.
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Gizmodo puts the second-generation Sleepbuds at 1.6 grams, about half a Soundcore Sleep A30, and still lists "too pricey" and "no ANC" as the headline drawbacks.
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RoboScience's REX G1 trades demo-reel language for numbers a warehouse engineer can argue with. What it still does not publish is price, throughput, or any outside validation.
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A vendor panel at Supermicro's Open Storage Summit argues GPUs no longer set token cost alone. The useful corollary: chat, batch and agentic work each need their own capacity plan.
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A devops.com essay argues durability, per-step identity and decision-level observability belong in the agent runtime, not layered on later. The failure economics support the claim.
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Anthropic began marking Claude's output on 2 August. Within days an open-source stripper had more than 14,000 GitHub stars, which settles what the mark can and cannot prove.
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A tester who will not go back to manual vacuuming or mowing says window-cleaning robots are not worth it for most homes, after a premium model tore paintwork off a sash window.
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