Google funds 100,000 AI scholarships via ITU coalition

ABB Motion president Brandon Spencer says rack-level power demand is rising toward roughly one megawatt per rack as AI infrastructure deployments grow. The new rack portfolio is designed to support those power and computing needs.

Sheila Gulati, founder of Total Capital and former Microsoft Azure leader, says the sector is "woefully under-invested" in AI security. The Bloomberg segment weighs whether warnings from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei should be taken seriously.

Opus 5.5 costs $4/$20 per million input/output tokens, 20% less than Opus 5, with cache reads at $0.20/Mtok and 1M context. Anthropic says it matches Fable 5.1 on most work and is ~30% faster and ~40% cheaper per task than Opus 5.

Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers, is negotiating a funding round at a $5 billion valuation, per people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is in talks to lead the financing.

Paula Goldman, Salesforce's Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, argues the biggest AI gains come from designing how people and AI work together, not just stronger models. She is the author of "Manage the Machine."

Databricks made its Genie One MCP generally available, pitching it as a way to give any AI agent the right business context. The company frames it as a fix for leaders who have plenty of data but can't get reliable answers.