Amazon bets on a nuclear startup that has never built a working reactor
Expanding its X-energy deal, Amazon funds 12 unproven SMRs for Indiana, but no US small reactor is operating and the mid-2030s timeline is far from locked.

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Expanding its X-energy deal, Amazon funds 12 unproven SMRs for Indiana, but no US small reactor is operating and the mid-2030s timeline is far from locked.
The e-commerce giant is backing a 960-megawatt SMR fleet with X-energy and AEP, a high-stakes test for the AI data center power crunch.
An unprecedented pact gives Washington oversight of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, a move the interim president says will revive the economy.
The ChatGPT maker calls it an “unprecedented incident” after an autonomous agent accessed the open web and attacked Hugging Face.
Enterprises lose top-tier Claude access overnight, with fallback models auto-routing and an uncertain path to restoration.
First-day trading for the aerospace and AI company turned an unprecedented IPO into a $2tn-style market reckoning for public-market readiness.