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Machines That Think Underground
From autonomous haul trucks to AI-guided drill bits, automation is rewriting the economics of resource extraction—and the race to deploy it is accelerating faster than most operators expected.
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AI's Power Crunch Hits the Grid
Data centers could consume 1,050 TWh by year's end—enough to rank fifth globally if they were a country. Now grid operators are threatening to cut power to AI facilities during peak demand.
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Mining Press Roundup: USA Rare Earth Locks Down $1.6B in Federal Funding
USA Rare Earth finalizes CHIPS Act funding, Hycroft unveils $4.3B Nevada project economics, and copper supply concerns deepen as Goldman slashes forecasts.
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Supabase Hits $10.5B on Vibe-Coding Boom
Database startup Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation as AI coding tools reshape how software gets built—and who builds it.
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The Coding Wars Heat Up
GitHub Copilot paused new sign-ups in May while Cursor hit $2 billion ARR. The AI coding assistant market is no longer a monopoly—and the battle lines reveal who's winning the race to automate software development.
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The Trillion-Dollar AI Race Hits Washington
Anthropic filed for a near-trillion-dollar IPO days after its cybersecurity model rattled the White House. Now Washington is scrambling to write rules for an industry that just rewrote the threat landscape.
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When the Chips Are Down
Broadcom's AI chip forecast missed by $1.2 billion and erased $270 billion in market value. The real story: memory shortages and Chinese circuit boards are reshaping who controls the AI hardware stack.
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AI Cuts Drilling Time, But at What Cost?
Energy companies are racing toward 50% autonomous operations by 2030, but the same AI driving efficiency gains is also supercharging fossil fuel extraction—and complicating the natural gas price outlook.
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AI's Energy Paradox: Efficiency vs. Demand
Data centers are driving a natural gas boom, but the same AI revolution may cap the price gains producers were counting on through unprecedented efficiency improvements.
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AI's Enterprise Invasion Begins
Microsoft ships seven in-house models to escape OpenAI's shadow, Meta monetizes AI agents for the first time, and Morgan Stanley opens its wealth funnel to autonomous bots—all in 48 hours.
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AI's Gas Guzzlers Defy Price Logic
Data centers are poised to consume 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily by 2030, yet Henry Hub prices keep falling. The AI boom is rewriting the rules of energy demand—just not the way bulls expected.
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Microsoft Breaks From OpenAI
Microsoft unveiled seven proprietary AI models this week, marking its most aggressive move yet to compete independently of OpenAI. Meanwhile, Anthropic's $965 billion valuation and Nvidia's PC chip push are redrawing the competitive map.
Mining
Mining Press Roundup: DPM Strikes Major Gold-Copper Discovery in Bulgaria
Canadian producer DPM Metals announces high-grade porphyry discovery near its flagship Chelopech mine, while Tintina secures $91M for Chile copper-gold project and Elliott pushes Northern Star toward strategic review.
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The Memory Bottleneck Tightens
High-bandwidth memory is now the chokepoint for AI hardware, not chips. HBM shortages are driving DRAM prices up 80%, squeezing consumer electronics, and reshaping the economics of inference.
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The Memory Makers Take Control
High-bandwidth memory is sold out through 2026, and the companies that make it—Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron—now hold more power over AI's future than the chip designers themselves.
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How are LiDAR point clouds processed for terrain modeling in energy projects?
LiDAR point clouds are processed through a systematic workflow of noise filtering, ground point classification, and interpolation to create bare-earth terrain models used for siting and designing energy infrastructure.
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Microsoft Breaks From OpenAI. Florida Sues.
Microsoft unveiled seven proprietary AI models at Build 2026 to reduce OpenAI dependence, while Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman personally. Markets are in 'greed mode,' Goldman's CEO warns, as trillion-dollar IPOs loom.
Mining
Mining Press Roundup: Cameco Spends $115M to Boost Cigar Lake Uranium Stake
Cameco increases ownership of world-class uranium mine as nuclear demand surges, while Barrick weighs $30B African merger and activist Elliott targets Northern Star.
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The $965 Billion Race to Your Terminal
Anthropic filed for an IPO Monday at a near-trillion-dollar valuation. Microsoft counters at Build with a Copilot super app. The AI coding wars just went nuclear.
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The Gigawatt Race: AI's Power Hunger
Natural gas turbine orders hit a 25-year high as data centers scramble for power. But the real bottleneck isn't chips—it's the infrastructure to run them.