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OpenAI’s November 2026 pilot in Effingham County, Georgia, could release up to 1,000 megawatts during extreme weather—enough to power air conditioners in about 700,000 homes. The plan arrives amid data-center backlash and new energy-cost restrictions in several states.
Squarespace is cutting about 300 jobs, or 19% of its roughly 1,800-person workforce, to simplify operations in November 2026. Affected employees will receive 16 weeks of base pay and healthcare through May 2027.
Danfoss refrigerators were remotely switched to defrost, spoiling food at stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden in November 2026. Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt confirmed the attacks; Claroty warned in August that the units were vulnerable.
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane is proposing “AI compute campuses” to soften opposition to data centers, alongside AI “speed limits” and global standards. He called the 2026 midterms a preview of AI’s expected role in the 2028 presidential race.
Plymouth’s police chief physically disconnected Flock cameras after the company ignored a September 2026 cancellation for over a month. In Dayton, Flock reconnected two cameras despite the city’s explicit order not to complete the work order.
Executives at roughly 50 companies report negligible activity from AI shopping agents: DoorDash saw orders in the “hundreds,” while T-Mobile said “nothing of significance.” That contrasts with Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that 10 million+ people activated Muse in the US and Canada.
Waymo will integrate its self-driving hardware directly on Toyota’s assembly line for bZ4X robotaxis, potentially reducing retrofit labor, custom brackets and shipping. Japan testing begins in 2027, ahead of a Tokyo service and later UK expansion.
AWS is running at a $184 billion annualized revenue rate after 39% year-over-year growth, with Andy Jassy forecasting more than 40% growth in 2027 and 2028. Amazon expects roughly $220 billion in 2026 capex, mostly for AWS, and more in 2027.
Amazon’s AI spending pushed trailing-12-month free cash flow to -$42.4B, versus +$14.8B a year earlier. AWS outperformed with $45.98B in Q3 sales, up 39%, while the company targets roughly $220B in 2026 capital expenditures.
Mintive says its AI-agent governance platform has signed 50 enterprise customers since launching in February 2026, including Coursera, Stability AI and the University of Michigan. The startup has raised $11 million, including a $7 million seed led by Cowboy Ventures.
Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping can now create and edit lists, manage registries, update delivery instructions, investigate charges and refunds, and pause or modify recurring deliveries. The U.S. rollout builds on its May 2026 launch.
Alphabet says AI investments helped push year-over-year Search query growth to its highest rate in five years, including commercial queries. Q3 revenue rose 25% to $127.6B, while Cloud more than doubled to $30.7B.
Azure revenue hit $33.17 billion, up 48% year over year, as Microsoft’s new Agents and Infra segment generated 83% of quarterly sales. Overall revenue rose 19% to $92.3 billion, while Windows OEM and devices fell 22% amid a 20% PC-market decline.
Microsoft Cloud drove the quarter with $63.9B in revenue, up 30%, including $33.2B from Azure. OpenAI generated $10B in revenue for Microsoft, while capital expenditures hit a quarterly-record $45.2B and future contracted revenue surged 73% to $677B.
A 16-year-old buffer overflow in EDK II’s PXE-Base Code driver enables code execution before Secure Boot or TPM defenses activate. CVE-2026-97631 is rated 9.5/10 and was disclosed in October 2026 after a premature leak.
OpenAI-related arrangements accounted for nearly 11% of Microsoft’s $92.3 billion quarterly revenue, reaching $10 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2026. Microsoft also reported $7.2 billion in outstanding OpenAI receivables, up from $6 billion in June.
Azure generated $33.2 billion in Q1 FY2027, beating estimates by $850 million and edging Google Cloud’s $30.7 billion. Revenue rose 48% year over year, though Google Cloud grew roughly twice as fast.
Nvidia’s 30-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 handles hour-long recordings, separates up to eight speakers, and translates 31 languages to and from English. It runs on one chip—from Jetson AGX Thor to Blackwell datacenter chips—but supports only pre-recorded audio, not live streams.