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The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions

Charlotte Jee

created: Aug. 5, 2025, noon | updated: Aug. 11, 2025, 2:48 p.m.

(MIT Technology Review)2 The US wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moonAnd it hopes to do that before Russia and China, who are planning to do exactly the same. (MIT Technology Review)4 Welcome to Silicon Valley’s ‘hard tech’ eraGoodbye, consumer software. (MIT Technology Review)5 There’s a big problem with the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dreamBuilding data centers in a region that already has water scarcity issues seems...unwise. (Rest of Water)+ There’s a data center boom in the US desert too. (MIT Technology Review)+ Google has promised to scale back its energy usage during certain times to reduce stress on the grid.

4 months, 1 week ago: MIT Technology Review