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Riot holds the grid permits that take years to build, so Anthropic skips the construction queue.
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Riot Platforms disclosed a $9.1 billion, 20-year data-center lease alongside Q2 earnings, with Bloomberg naming Anthropic as the customer. The deal covers 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus, with 96 MW online by December 2027 and the rest by June 2028, worth up to $16.1 billion with extensions.
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OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast at 750 tokens per second
Running on Cerebras wafer-scale chips that keep the full model weights in 44 GB of on-chip SRAM, the preview clears the memory-bandwidth wall to hit 14x standard Sol speed with the same intelligence, per OpenAI's announcement. It is OpenAI's first production-preview run on non-Nvidia silicon, aimed at real-time voice and incident response. Limited API access with a waitlist.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot puts its Agent Store behind IT admin approval
Custom agents no longer reach end users until an admin approves them, closing the governance gap that stalled enterprise extensibility rollouts. The same wave added Anthropic model support inside Word for orgs running Claude. Platform teams managing Copilot at 1,000-plus seats finally control which agents ship.
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Make. Visual automation with 2,000-plus integrations for wiring AI triggers into the tools you already run. Try Make →
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ElevenLabs. Text to lifelike speech with an API clean enough to drop into a content or voice-agent pipeline in an afternoon. Try ElevenLabs →
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Firecrawl. Turns any URL into LLM-ready markdown, so your RAG pipeline or agent gets clean input instead of raw HTML. Try Firecrawl →
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Jonathan Hildebrandt
Co-founder and primary operator of Pondero. Writes the Pondero Brief.
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