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Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. The thing slowing the AI buildout is no longer the chips. Executives running some of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft is on pace for its first record close since October 2025, having gained more than 50% from a June low and added roughly $1.5T in market value. The AI-disruption panic that caused the fall also hit SAP, which has not recovered. Microsoft is on track for its first record close in almost a year, [] This story continues at The Next Web

The next phase of enterprise software adoption is giving employees capabilities that once required dedicated engineering teams. AI tools can now help workers build applications, automate processes, and create agents. But each new capability introduces questions about data access, dependencies, and control. For cybersecurity investors, this shift presents an opportunity to back companies building security [] This story continues at The Next Web

KuCoin Nigeria Limited has received conditional Approval-in-Principle (AIP) from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC Nigeria), for admission into its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP). It advances the exchanges efforts to establish a regulated presence in one of Africas most active digital asset markets. According to Chainalysis 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, Nigeria ranks [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every day, a manager approves a time-off request, signs off on an expense report, resolves a scheduling conflict and weighs in on a performance review. None of it feels monumental. Together, it adds up to something behavioral researchers call decision fatigue. That is the measurable decline in judgment that follows a long run of choices. [] This story continues at The Next Web

The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and The Economist have joined a coalition that wants AI companies to stop using news without permission, the group said on Monday. The coalition, known as SPUR Standards for Publisher Usage Rights, has now reached over 80 members across more than 20 countries. It was founded in February by [] This story continues at The Next Web

DeepSigma has launched a paper-trading demo covering 77 traditional financial markets, using patented blockchain technology to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to stocks, commodities and other real-world assets. A team with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google and Uber is developing adecentralized exchangedesigned to bring one of cryptos most popular trading models into traditional financial [] This story continues at The Next Web