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SoftBank, Petros, and Grab plan Malaysian data center buildout with "long-term target" of 5GW

AI-generated summary SoftBank, Petroleum Sarawak Berhad, and Grab signed a Joint Development Agreement for a Malaysian data center venture starting with an initial investment of 1 billion dollars. The three companies stated a long-term target of five gigawatts of compute in the Sarawak region and plan to seek additional investors and hyperscaler customers.

AI Startups May Have Fewer Sales Reps. But Not as a Percent of the Team. Has The Playbook Really Changed All That Much?

AI-generated summary Data from Pave shows that sales departments at artificial intelligence hypergrowth companies make up nearly the same share of total headcount as they do in traditional technology businesses. A survey by ICONIQ indicates that artificial intelligence forward organizations maintain smaller go-to-market teams overall while achieving higher quota attainment rates than lower adoption peers.

Stanford’s AI100 Report Examines The Cost Of AI Progress

AI-generated summary The 2026 report from Stanford's AI100 examines both the gains from generative artificial intelligence and the unresolved questions surrounding its economic and societal impact. The study highlights an infrastructure boom with consequences for capital markets, electricity demand and freshwater supplies, while noting that artificial intelligence is not yet paying its way.

Also covered by TNW | Artificial-intelligence Tech Xplore

Your meditation headband may be feeding your brainwaves to an AI model

AI-generated summary A report from the journal Science details how companies selling brain-tracking devices are utilizing user brain-signal data to train artificial intelligence models. InteraXon states that training artificial intelligence models on user data makes its products more helpful, though experts express privacy concerns regarding consumer electroencephalography devices.

Also covered by Malwarebytes

The CIO dilemma: Scaling production AI without breaking the power grid

AI-generated summary HPE and AMD are partnering to provide enterprise infrastructure that combines AMD EPYC processors, AMD Instinct GPUs, and HPE Cray architectures to scale artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. To address power consumption and data center scalability, AMD EPYC CPUs and HPE thermal management technologies aim to improve energy efficiency while integrating hardware-based security features.