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SeaPRwire – Eight rebuilt jet engines are now generating electricity in Mississippi for a data center in Memphis, according to state permits and satellite imagery reviewed by the New York Times. The units came out of retired aircraft and were converted to burn natural gas by ProEnergy, which reworks a General Electric engine commonly fitted to Boeing jets. They belong to xAI’s Colossus 2 site. OpenAI took the same route in 2025 at its first Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, and Crusoe, the Denver company building that campus, ordered 13 of ProEnergy’s converted units in April. The reason is arithmetic. Connecting 100 megawatts to the grid in Northern Virginia takes about seven years, by the International Energy Agency’s estimate. A converted jet engine can have a data center running in 24 months, Rystad Energy analyst Audun Martinsen told the Times. “It’s all about getting power as fast as possible,” he said. Most new generating capacity i...

SeaPRwire – A half-meter plastic beam now extends from Replicator 2, a German satellite that reached orbit this summer on a SpaceX rideshare. Orbital Matter, the startup behind it, says no free-flying spacecraft had printed a rigid structural element in vacuum before. Four printers flew on the satellite. Each one extrudes resin in coils and cures it with ultraviolet light, building a cylinder a layer at a time, an arrangement the company compares to cement and water. The beam is rigid because the cured wall carries the load, not because a frame holds it. Vacuum changes the working conditions. On the ground, the air around a fresh deposit carries heat away and the surrounding gas helps the material hold its shape while it sets. In orbit there is no air to carry anything: heat leaves by radiation, and a surface in sunlight sits next to a surface in shadow. Orbital Matter builds the wall in passes, curing each layer under the lamp before the next one goes down, so the structure i...

UNMOVE’s bet: selling the habits of a 26-percent-penetration market into one that runs at 3.6 percent China’s fitness industry produced two numbers in 2025 that point in opposite directions: roughly three million fewer paying members, and ¥97.5 billion more in consumer spending. A year later, APEC 2026 brings thousands of international executives to Shenzhen — visitors raised in markets where 9 to 26 percent of the population holds a gym membership, now training inside a market that reports 3.6 to 6.0 percent . The collision of those two facts is not a boom but a recomposition, and at UNMOVE , a 10,000-square-metre sports and recovery centre in the city’s Xili innovation district, it has an unusually legible observation point. Three datasets describe the same year and refuse to agree with one another: membership at 84.52 million , down 3.44 percent year on year, or roughly three million members lost; commercial fitness spending up 34.2 percent , from ¥285.2 bill...

SeaPRwire – Readwise launched Readwise Books on Monday in the United States: an ebook store that doubles as a reading tracker. Titles come from the big five publishers and others, which the company describes as millions of books. The app is free and currently in an invite-only beta. It is replacing two things that used to be separate. Kindle sells the book; Goodreads records whether you finished it. Readwise Books puts buying, reading and logging in one place and adds resolution to the logging: words read, pace, session length, how deep into a sitting a reader stayed. Taken as a store alone, this is the heaviest thing the company has attempted. Independent developers have spent years shipping reading trackers and almost none have gone near ebook retail, for a reason that is easy to find: Kindle holds roughly 83% of ebook sales once Kindle+ (formerly Kindle Unlimited) is counted, according to Goodereader’s tally. Readwise does not sell an e-reader and has no hardware posi...

SeaPRwire – Omen AI will pay $16 million in cash and stock for Aquatic Labs, a competitor that had been building its own real-time sensor for the water running through data center cooling loops. The company confirmed the deal on Monday. The two products measure different things. Omen’s sensor looks for elements dissolved in the fluid; Aquatic Labs’ looks at alkalinity. Putting both into one housing is supposed to give operators a reading they can act on instead of a number they have to interpret against a lab report that arrives three days later. The two measurements catch different failures. Corrosion and scale begin in the chemistry of the loop, and biological growth usually announces itself as a pressure drop that nobody reads until a heat exchanger is already fouled. A probe that reports both also cuts the number of sampling kits a facilities team keeps on site, which is the operational argument for consolidation. It is not an argument that either metric is bet...

SeaPRwire – COP17 closed in Yerevan on Saturday with a document called the Yerevan Pathway, about $2 billion in new funding pledges, and four years left to deliver 23 biodiversity targets that a global review has already found the world is not on track to meet. The gap between those two facts is the story. A conference that ends with nearly 50 decisions and a named pathway has produced the machinery of a plan, not the outcomes the plan exists to produce, and the calendar is now shorter than the implementation cycle of most of what was agreed. What the pathway asks for is specific enough to check. Countries are to phase out subsidies that harm nature, align national budgets and economic decisions with the framework, and increase financial, scientific and technical support to developing countries. It also asks for stronger monitoring and reporting, which is the part with teeth, because a target nobody reports against cannot be judged missed. The nearly 50 decisions adopted cove...

Why a fertility rate of 1.2 and a pension bill above 6% of GDP measure the same problem, and the two indicators that could prove this wrong AsiaPresswire – Mexico’s fertility rate was 1.9 children per woman in 2019. In 2024 it was 1.2. Replacement is 2.1. In five years the country moved from a fertility profile that roughly holds a population steady to one where each generation is 43% smaller than the one before it, and it did so at a income level where the state has not finished building the systems that older people need. That is the whole argument, and it can be falsified in two places. Either fertility recovers toward replacement, or the formal labour market expands fast enough to fund the pension promises already written. If neither happens by 2028, the arithmetic below is not a forecast, it is a schedule. The Number That Turned The 2025 inter-census survey, reported by INEGI and relayed through Mexican statistical coverage in 2025-26, put the population at 130.4 m...

SeaPRwire – Five grounds went into the Divisional Court. Four of them never reached a hearing on their merits. That procedural detail is the part of the 30 October judgment worth understanding first, because it decides how much of the platforms’ argument was actually tested and how much was simply refused at the gate. Under the Online Safety Act 2023, section 100 lets Ofcom require regulated services to hand over information the regulator needs to carry out its functions. Meta and WhatsApp, X and TikTok each received notices and each brought judicial review. The judgment, from Lord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Collins Rice, is reported as [2026] EWHC 2779 (Admin), and it is the first judicial examination of that power. The four grounds that failed at the permission stage were the argument that the notices circumvented the Act’s separate transparency regime, the argument that the information was not genuinely “required,” the argument that Ofcom had skip...

SeaPRwire – A model release is usually a product event. This one is a procurement event. Mistral put the weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model it calls Le Chonk, on Hugging Face and behind its own API on Thursday, which means a customer can now take the checkpoint, install it on hardware it controls, and stop asking permission to use it. The company’s pitch is that this matters most in cybersecurity, where the buyer is a security team that wants to point a model at its own code and its own logs. Weights are the numerical result of training. Publishing them does not publish the data, the recipe, or the evaluation harness, and it does not oblige Mistral to keep shipping updates. What it does is remove a switch. An API customer’s access depends on a vendor’s continued willingness to serve that customer, at that price, under that policy. A weights customer’s access depends on hardware and electricity. Stock, Mistral’s vice president o...