TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (Sarah White/Financial Times)

Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (Bloomberg)

Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI safety standards (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (Emily Mullin/Wired)