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Friday, September 19, 2025
Tech Giants Bet $40B on UK AI Infrastructure
The infrastructure race is heating up (yikes) with Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, Salesforce, and CoreWeave committing $40 billion to UK AI expansion, while simultaneously Nvidia and Intel just announced a seismic partnership including custom chips and a $5 billion stock investment that's reshaping the entire hardware ecosystem. But here's the darker flip side: deepfake victims are pushing for tougher laws after getting minimal justice, the industry finally agreed on what an "agent" actually is, and apparently hard disk drives are having an unexpected comeback as AI's hidden bottleneck. Would you trust a tech company's self-regulation over legislation?
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Top Stories
U.S. tech giants are making a historic $40 billion infrastructure push in the UK, establishing datacentres and sovereign AI capabilities while driving parallel investments in nuclear energy—signaling both U.S.-UK tech alignment and the massive energy demands reshaping global AI competition.
bbc.com
A deepfake nude victim's call for tougher legislation highlights gaps in current UK law, as a perpetrator received only a £335 fine despite causing significant harm to the victim.
Simon Willison's Blog
The AI industry may have finally settled on a shared definition of "agent"—an LLM running tools in a loop to achieve goals—enabling more productive technical conversations after years of definitional chaos.
David Rosenthal's Blog
AI-driven demand has unexpectedly revived the hard disk drive market, with manufacturers unable to meet 52+ week lead times and raising prices, while research confirms HDDs remain superior to SSDs on cost, capacity, and environmental metrics for enterprise storage.
Tom's Hardware
NVIDIA and Intel announced a historic partnership creating jointly-developed x86 processors for consumer and data center markets, with NVIDIA investing $5 billion in Intel stock to strengthen the collaboration and Intel's financial position amid foundry competition.
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