AI Shoots For Space While Returns Stay Grounded

Space data centres are suddenly a thing. U.S. startup Starcloud just put the first Nvidia H100 in orbit on a SpaceX ride, claiming on-orbit compute is the cure for Earth’s power bills and cooling headaches.

See the launch reports at DataCenterDynamics and IEEE Spectrum and Starcloud’s own spiel if you fancy solar arrays the size of small countries. Google is in the mix too with Project Suncatcher, aiming for prototype satellites by 2027, as outlined on Google’s blog and covered by The Guardian.

Cheaper, cleaner compute in space sounds lovely. Radiation, thermal management and economics might disagree.

OpenAI wants your steps and your symptoms. Reuters says the company is exploring consumer health tools, from record summaries to wellness tips. That would park OpenAI on the same lawn as Apple Health and Google DeepMind. Great for convenience. Awkward for privacy and liability.

Anthropic keeps leaning enterprise. Cognizant will roll out Claude to up to 350,000 employees, per Anthropic and additional coverage in the WSJ. That is a clear signal: less viral chat, more back-office productivity and billable outcomes.

Stability AI’s courtroom win is not the final word. In the UK, Stability largely prevailed over Getty Images on core copyright claims, per AP and The Guardian, with analysis here. Some trademark bits remain, and the bigger question of training data is still hanging.

Google’s orbital ambitions, take two. Beyond Suncatcher’s research post, Google sketched a design for solar-powered TPU constellations with laser links that beam models around the planet. The concept is bold. So are the risk registers.

Adoption still lags the hype. Deloitte’s latest survey suggests executives keep spending on AI even as ROI proves elusive. Another sector report says scale execution is the choke point. Turns out slideware does not ship products.

Schools are not coping. Educators call it an existential crisis, with AI now embedded in homework culture, as discussed by The Verge and the LA Times. Detection tools remain a whack-a-mole.

Legal tech tries a new revenue trick. Legora launched Portal, a shared workspace firms can sell to clients, per the company and Business Insider. If clients pay for access to your AI playbooks, margins might finally move.

Odds and ends. TechCrunch Disrupt crowned Glīd as Startup Battlefield winner. Apple rumours point to OLED MacBook Pros around the M6 era via MacRumors and Tom’s Hardware.

WhatsApp is testing a media hub and extra security on web and Mac, per Digital Trends, Gadgets360 and 9to5Mac. Also in the lab: a contrarian “Disagree Bot” that pushes back by design. If only more product roadmaps did the same.