Three disclosures this week describe one shift. Censys found over 800 Artex deployments reachable without a password; Apiiro counted 2,539 live secrets in 1,122 public repositories exposed by saved agent approvals; OpenAI's own pipeline surfaced 948 Linux privilege-escalation flaws for $1.2 million. OpenAI then gave Hacktron expanded model access to probe its third-party integrations. The thread is custody, not capability: agents hold credentials, touch production systems and leave configuration behind. The organisations that cope are those that can inventory what their agents can reach.
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Sources TechCrunch · Apiiro · OpenAI
Anthropic's $3.4 billion generator purchase, TSMC's study of 3D DRAM at Nvidia's request and a Senate bill that would make data centres pay for grid upgrades describe one bottleneck from three directions. Power equipment and advanced memory are both multi-year lead-time items, and buying them outright moves capital from operating expense onto the balance sheet. Nvidia's argument that the memory wall needs a whole-stack fix points the same way. For 2027 planning, the constraint that decides schedules may be interconnection queues and DRAM allocation rather than accelerators.
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Sources The Energy Mag · Reuters · The Verge
A week that began with Democrats winning both chambers of Congress ended with the Nasdaq roughly $2 trillion below its peak, Taiwan's Taiex in a bear market and then up as much as 5 percent on short-selling curbs, and SoftBank's five-year credit default swaps at 466 basis points, the widest since 2022. AI companies have priced more than $300 billion of equity this year with about $100 billion queued, while OpenAI settled for $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation. The repricing is not about demand for models. It is about who pays for the build-out, and what regulation will cost.
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Sources The Guardian · Reuters (via StreetInsider) · AI Weekly (summarising The Information) · TechCrunch
Three stories this week converge. Researchers linked a global once-a-minute frequency dip to synchronised battery and UPS charge checks, with Ireland's dip quadrupling between 2016 and 2021 as data centres reached 18 percent of load. Operators are installing converted jet engines to bypass interconnection queues that run for years. And a Senate bill would force large data centres to pay for the grid upgrades they cause. Each is a private workaround for a public problem: a grid never designed for loads that arrive in gigawatt steps and behave like synchronous machines.
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Sources TechCrunch · Dataconomy · The Verge
Bayern and Dortmund are level on 21 points after nine matchdays, Arsenal lead the Premier League on 27 with Brighton and Manchester City within six, and both leagues now pause for a fortnight of international fixtures. The pattern at the top is narrow wins rather than statements: Arsenal 1-0 against Hull, Bayern 2-1 at Mainz, Dortmund 2-1 over Elversberg, Freiburg 2-0 against Union. With the break removing recovery time and squads already carrying injuries, the clubs that rotate without losing shape over the next three weeks are the ones most likely to still be there in spring.
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Sources Bundesliga · Premier League · BBC Sport · BBC Sport