THE ARCHIVE

AI, without the noise.

Curated stories and useful context from across the AI ecosystem.

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 123

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing i...

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 100

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 84

Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Gove...

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 112

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 76

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have ...

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 108

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 118

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 94

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of...

AI News
Aug 04, 2026 75

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray...

AI News
Aug 03, 2026 102

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untr...

AI News
Aug 03, 2026 93

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling...

AI News
Aug 03, 2026 105

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.