Before the AI buildout, a large utility might see a handful of requests a year from customers looking to connect unusually large loads. By 2024, AEP Ohio had told regulators it had more than 50 data centers in its queue, representing over 30,000 megawatts of additional demand. American Electric Power said in May that it…
Acer on September 2, 2026 announced the Veriton RI110 AI Mini Workstation (VRI110), a compact desktop built around an Intel Core Ultra X7 processor 358H and Intel Arc B390 graphics that the company says supports AI models of up to 120 billion parameters for local inference, design, and content creation work. Announced from Berlin, the…
Acer on September 2, 2026 introduced the Acer SFF RTX Spark, a compact desktop design built around NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip and intended to run agentic AI workloads locally. The company presented the design at its next@Acer global press conference during IFA 2026 in Berlin, describing a small-form-factor system aimed at creators, AI developers and…
Vertiv said on September 2, 2026 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire UtilityInnovation Group, a microgrid and behind-the-meter power architecture firm, for approximately $1.45 billion in cash at closing. The deal adds onsite power generation and orchestration capabilities aimed at data center operators facing grid constraints. Under the agreement and plan of…
OpenAI said on September 1, 2026 that healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic electronic health record environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, alongside a new Healthcare Public Data plugin that links the workspace to nine official healthcare datasets. The announcement, published on OpenAI’s newsroom, describes two complementary capabilities. The EHR integration brings authorized patient context…
Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026. The two releases are configurations of the same underlying model with different levels of safeguards: Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is restricted to Anthropic’s trusted access programs, with safeguards designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences….
Aramco Digital and Avathon on September 1, 2026 announced a strategic partnership to accelerate Industrial AI adoption across energy, mining, aerospace and transportation sectors in Saudi Arabia and global industrial markets. The agreement pairs Aramco Digital, a Saudi Industrial AI company, with Avathon, a Pleasanton, California firm that describes itself as a provider of autonomy…
Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program (MSRED), was recently named executive director of the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) — effective July 1, 2026. In announcing Torous’ appointment, School of…
You.com on September 1, 2026 introduced a new extraction mode for its Web Search API called Highlights, reporting a 95.17% score on the SimpleQA benchmark and a 35% lower total query cost than Claude Sonnet 5’s built-in web search in an independent evaluation. The feature is live through the API’s extraction_mode parameter at the same…
Google began rolling out Google Pics, its AI image creation and editing tool built on the company’s Nano Banana model, to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and most Workspace business customers on September 1, 2026. The tool works both as a standalone product and as an integration inside Google Docs and Slides, with Drive…