The Product Desk
Enterprise software and the craft of shipping it: launches, pricing, and what users actually do.
Horizon 1 has been accepted by Microsoft, turning a $9.7bn contract into delivered capacity. Three more 50MW buildings are due at the Texas campus this year.
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Instabase, founded in 2015 and funded with more than $250 million, is now SuperApp: team chat, a document library, and automatic model routing. Its document-AI business becomes plumbing.
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L&T's Vyoma unit will host 10,000 Nvidia B300s at a 250MW first phase in Chennai. The tenant is a US AI cloud whose own sites are in North America.
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Omar Abbosh says model capability alone does not decide whether an education product works. The differentiator is what the product refuses to do, and how you measure the refusal.
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Given a mundane goal, an open-source assistant cancelled a stranger's reservation on a live booking system that had no authorization checks on cancellations. Nobody instructed it to attack anything.
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The Verge's Litter-Robot 5 Pro review found cameras that merged two visibly different cats into one and an $8-a-month AI subscription that produced no useful insight.
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The wildfire alerting nonprofit is generalizing to a second hazard while its own headcount and revenue double. Its CEO calls that growth a little too wild for comfort.
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The Chinese developer raised full-year sales guidance to 1GW and capex from $1.3bn to $1.4bn. Backlog grew 68 percent in two quarters while gross profit fell 3.6 percent.
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Elveo Mobile starts life with five satellites in orbit and globally coordinated spectrum. In direct-to-device, the second asset is the harder one to replace.
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The Munich defence-AI firm has enlisted an e-commerce and mobile group to broker HX-2 strike drones to Japan's Ground Self-Defence Forces. The field trials run to the end of September.
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Blue Energy and GE Vernova Hitachi will burn gas in Victoria, Texas from 2030 and start SMRs in 2032. The two-year gap is the part worth reading closely.
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Amazon has slowed satellite production waiting on rockets it booked five years ago, and Telesat is fielding requests to share its Falcon 9s. Capacity is the binding constraint.
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Tyga's admission, Timbaland's AI signing and a Hot 100 entry move licensing, credit and provenance from roadmap items to shipping requirements.
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A Fast Company essay describes an agent's email answered by a chatbot draft. With 51% of AI users at work using it to write, default behavior will set the norm unless someone writes one down.
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An FCC rule demands 65% domestic content, rising to 75% in 2029. The startups it is meant to protect are the ones that cannot assemble a compliant parts list.
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Delaware County amended its election worker oath to cover bets and wagers. It is the first concrete sign that liquid election markets manufacture insider-risk controls where none existed.
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Beijing's humanoid games ran a firefighting mission at a working fire brigade. Three of the 12 teams that ran on Sunday finished all three tasks inside the 30-minute limit.
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Quinbrook closed A$469 million of debt for Stage 3 of its Brendale battery campus in the same week Stage 2 entered commercial operation. The pattern matters more than the megawatts.
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A CNBC/Generation Lab survey of 18-34-year-olds found every named AI leader distrusted by a majority, in a band from about 65% to about 81%. Consumer AI ships into a verdict already reached.
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Lingxi Games is profitable and is being sold anyway, to fund model training and data centres. Assume your competitors are financing AI capex the same way: by divesting, not by growing into it.
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The new City line puts an integrated non-slip suspension hook in a $119.95 crossbody and a $179.95 15-liter pack. The feature, not the fabric, is the pitch.
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Reuters reports the lab's near-$2tn pitch leans on an internal forecast of $190bn to $200bn in 2028 revenue. Anyone building on Claude should read that as a quota, not a projection.
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The 49.99 percent purchase leaves Samsung SDI sole owner of an Indiana plant that will start on storage cells, with prismatic EV cells reduced to a co-development agreement.
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GitHub's latest changelog makes per-turn model switching normal across Copilot surfaces. It does not add a field anywhere recording which model wrote which line.
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One alleged user is accused of generating more than 7,000 explicit images of a single child with Grok. That figure is a discovery target, not a talking point.
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Astrolavos Lab counted 27,758 blacklisted and 238,279 malware-resolved domains that expired and were then maliciously re-registered, including an expired APT name.
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A Play Store page rewritten from placeholders to landscape UI, USB webcam switching and ML document scanning is the clearest sign yet that Googlebook ships this fall with first-party apps.
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The utility loses about 60 percent of its drinking water to leaks, and the territory mandates no rainwater catchment. The cheapest available capacity is sitting on roofs.
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The Argonne-led hybrid pairs a cheap semiconductor with a light-absorbing membrane from salt-loving microbes, and out-produced the semiconductor alone by more than five times.
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Google's rear LED arrives with two functions and no messaging support. The precedent list, from Active Edge to the Pixel 8 Pro thermometer, argues for discounting launch-day feature claims.
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