Innovasjon Nyhende: 14 september 2025 - 7 oktober 2025

November 13, 2025, 11:56 AM EST. Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) is securing a second $787.5 million draw under its up to $5.0 billion perpetual preferred equity facility with Macquarie Asset Management to accelerate the AI Factory buildout at North Dakota campuses Polaris Forge 1 and 2. Of the new funds, $450 million will advance Polaris Forge 2 in Harwood (200 MW leased to a U.S.-based hyperscaler with a first-right for 800 MW more), while $337.5 million will support Polaris Forge 1 in Ellendale (400 MW). The equity draw complements an anticipated $2.35 billion senior secured notes offering and other conditions, yielding non-dilutive capital for platform G&A and transaction costs. Executives cite on-schedule delivery and Ready-for-Service milestones as progress toward scale.

November 13, 2025, 11:52 AM EST. Starlink has introduced a $40 monthly plan with no equipment cost and, in some places, free installation. The catch: download speeds are capped at 100 Mbps, while upload speeds are 15-35 Mbps. This new Residential 100 Mbps option sits alongside Residential Lite at $80 and the traditional $120 plan. Availability varies by location and may be limited to areas with excess capacity. A quick check across ten addresses found the $40 offer in only one rural Nevada town. Critics note satellite capacity limits, with studies suggesting crowding can reduce performance, and demand can drive prices up in high-demand regions like Seattle. If widely available, the plan could be a real breakthrough for rural broadband.

November 13, 2025, 11:48 AM EST. IBM unveiled its Nighthawk 120-qubit quantum processor with 218 tunable couplers and support for up to 5,000 two-qubit gates. The update advances IBM's Starling roadmap toward a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer and a community-verified quantum advantage by 2026, with fault tolerance milestones by 2029. First Nighthawk systems are slated for users by the end of 2025, with future chips projected to exceed 1,000 qubits by 2028. While this marks a major step for practical quantum computing, the threat to Bitcoin's elliptic-curve cryptography remains distant: breaking it would require fault-tolerant devices with ~2,000 logical qubits, far beyond today's hardware. IBM also expanded Qiskit and partnered on a quantum-advantage tracker to boost accuracy and benchmarking.

November 13, 2025, 11:46 AM EST. OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, with eight preset personalities (including Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Cynical, and Nerdy) to tailor tone while keeping the same underlying abilities. The two variants trade speed and deeper problem-solving and claim better performance on technical benchmarks like AIME 2025 and Codeforces. A central change is presentation: users asked for varied styles, so OpenAI added adaptive reasoning and the ability to select styles per task. The release emphasizes gradual rollout to paid subscribers, then API access, while older GPT-5 remains available for three months. The move comes amid ongoing scrutiny from lawyers and regulators.

November 13, 2025, 11:42 AM EST. At the 5th Palm Beach CorpGov Forum, leaders from corporate governance and investment discussed how AI can streamline underwritings and investment analysis in real assets like real estate and hospitality. Panelists stressed the need for accurate data to power AI applications and highlighted potential uses across industries. The session AI: From Hospitality to Real Estate featured Mark Harms, Ariel Mark, and Hooman Shahidi, among others, with attendees spanning institutional investors, directors, and advisers. The coverage includes a full lineup of speakers and takeaways on how AI can enhance decision-making, governance, and capital markets in the tech business/policy arena.