Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
A US grand jury indicted three people, including two former Google engineers, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to Pixel's Tensor processor  —  Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands were indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to the company's Tensor processor for Pixel phones.

Evan Halper / Washington Post:
Tech companies are increasingly building private power plants to fuel off-grid data centers, a move experts warn face reliability challenges and climate risks  —  Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales  —  The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business.  Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia nears an equity investment of up to $30B in OpenAI, replacing last year's long-term $100B commitment; the deal could be concluded this weekend  —  Chipmaker swaps last year's complex framework with AI start-up in favour of equity cheque  —  Nvidia is close to finalising …