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AI data-center projects face delivery setbacks on both sides of the Atlantic
The Financial Times found that at least 47 large U.S. projects were delayed, withdrawn or blocked in 2026, citing RegLayer's count. In Britain, the Telegraph reports that Microsoft withdrew as the planned anchor tenant for Nscale's Essex facility, where grid power is not expected until the 2030s. Nscale says it remains committed to the site and is exploring other power sources; Microsoft did not comment.
ThereforeMissed delivery deadlines can let AI tenants walk away from capacity contracts.
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Anthropic seeks legal advice on agent-to-agent negotiations, Financial Times reports
The company is consulting law firms about how agents could bargain for users and when to seek human input, according to people familiar with its work.
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DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs
Its documentation offers live web results and page-to-Markdown retrieval at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests for each endpoint; server-side calls through supported coding clients remain free until November 1 Beijing time.
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