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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)

Neara, which builds digital twins of critical infrastructure to help prepare for disasters, raised a AU$90M Series D, a source says at a AU$1.1B valuation (Rhiannon Hoyle/Wall Street Journal)

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence (The Hacker News)

A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)

DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)