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Today’s highlights
- Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal — 2026-09-18
- Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
- Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’ — 2026-09-17
- The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
- Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate — 2026-09-17
- The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. “They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data
- Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear — 2026-09-17
- An updated permit shows the 100-cap will expire later this month just as competition in Las Vegas heats up.
- PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI — 2026-09-17
- If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be.
- The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI — 2026-09-17
- A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America’s skies.
- The AI Superintelligence Slowdown — 2026-09-17
- Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI co
- Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city — 2026-09-17
- Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo’s vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in “the coming months,“