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August 12, 2026, 3:00 AM ET The George Washington University inked a $427 million sale of its Virginia campus with Amazon to build data centers. The AI boom is putting a new kind of pressure on American universities. The topic of AI has long been a point of contention within higher education from educators, students, and university administrations discussing the presence and use cases of the technology. But now it’s turned to a much more physical threat. As data centers compete for large parcels

August 12, 2026, 9:35 AM ET Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim had no AI pedigree—she started out with a $1 cornfield job, immigrant parents, and a habit of taking risks others missed. Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim had no formal background in AI or research when she became the company’s first-ever chief operating officer in 2018. Her résumé did, however, include detasseling corn in Indiana as a 14-year-old for “$1-something” an hour—a punishing summer job that left her sweaty, cut up, and sure she

August 12, 2026, 6:04 AM ET Qatar’s Ooredoo Group's Fibre in the Gulf (FIG) subsea cable system, scheduled for completion in late 2027, will be the largest ever built in the GCC. imaginima via Getty As tech behemoths Meta and Google delay subsea cable projects through the Red Sea amid rising security risks, many of the Gulf’s tech players are ramping up investment in the data highways needed to support the region’s rapidly expanding AI and cloud ambitions. While geopolitical tensions are making

August 12, 2026, 4:14 PM ET Canva’s lowered growth outlook and Figma’s shrinking margins show how inference costs are challenging the zero-marginal-cost logic that made software so profitable. Canva has spent years proving that it can do something many high-growth startups struggle to achieve: grow rapidly while making money. Then came generative AI. The design-software company cut its expected revenue growth rate by a third to 20% after the unexpectedly high cost of delivering AI features

August 13, 2026, 7:13 AM ET Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Feb. 19, 2026. Bea Nolan here, filling in for Allie. Google DeepMind has been having a difficult year. Last week, longtime Google DeepMind CEO and company cofounder Demis Hassabis announced he was stepping back from the CEO role and into a new chair role. Hassabis ceded day-to-day control to DeepMind’s chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu—who now reports straight to Sundar Pichai,