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21 October 2026

Since adopting AI, more than half of managers find it harder to evaluate their team's work - Nielsen survey

Nielsen surveyed 1,700 directors and senior managers in seven countries on behalf of monday.com. More than half said it has become harder to evaluate their reports' work since adopting AI, and nearly half spend more time reviewing their output. Of those surveyed, 39% use AI to write performance reviews and 58% expect to oversee more AI agents than people within a year, TechCrunch reports.

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AI computing power is getting more expensive faster than Nebius expected

The price per megawatt rose again at Nebius's auction on Tuesday, Marc Boroditsky, the company's chief revenue officer, told CNBC. He said prices are rising faster than Nebius expected and that if the company brought its 2027 capacity online, it would sell out. Chase Lochmiller, CEO of Crusoe, says his company is renting out older Nvidia chips, the A100 and H100, at higher prices today than right after their launch.

Power failure at Google Cloud in London disrupts Revolut services

According to CNN and The Verge, Google Cloud services in the europe-west2 region were returning errors from around 7 a.m. London time on Tuesday because of a power failure. During that time, Revolut customers were partly unable to use services including card payments, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange; a source told Reuters this was caused by the Google outage. After 1 p.m., Google said services were recovering.

Three shut-down US nuclear reactors will restart - 2.25 GW in total, partly for Microsoft and Google

Three previously shut-down US reactors will return to the grid: Palisades in Michigan (800 MW, from March 2027), Crane at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (835 MW, in 2027) and Duane Arnold in Iowa (615 MW, in 2029). Microsoft will be the main buyer of power from Crane under a 20-year contract, while NextEra Energy is restarting Duane Arnold together with Google. Palisades is the first reactor to be restarted after decommissioning had begun, Tom's Hardware reports.

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