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Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (Miranda Murray/Reuters)

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (Bloomberg)

Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (Robert Hart/The Verge)

OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)

OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the "world's best computer use model"; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (The Deep View)

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year (The Information)

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are "coming soon" (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)

Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta's API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as its predecessor (Ina Fried/Axios)

X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)