The AI boom just traded one environmental crisis for another, and Oregon is ground zero for both. PFAS producers are ramping up output to meet AI data center cooling demand, according to a new ChemSec report tracking the world's largest manufacturers of forever chemicals
Continue reading ›
While politicians argue over which regulations might slow AI down, the real question is whether AI can save growth itself — or whether we're automating our way into stagnation with better graphics.
Continue reading ›
When your AI can crack century-old military codes as a party trick, you're no longer selling software — you're selling cognitive infrastructure. OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a frontier AI model fine-tuned for legal work with firm-specific workflows and legal-grade confidentiality controls
Continue reading ›
The state that hosts 70% of global internet traffic just told Big Tech it can't whisper in officials' ears anymore. Virginia's governor banned state officials from signing NDAs with data center developers, a first-of-its-kind transparency mandate
Continue reading ›
The people who write proofs for a living are betting their careers on machines that can't prove anything. Mathematicians are caught in a dependency trap with AI tools like GPT-4 and specialized models, even as they recognize these systems pose an existential threat to their discipline.
Continue reading ›
The administration that claims to want less government just tried to federalize what counts as truth in machine learning. Trump issued an executive order demanding AI models be "free from ideological bias" while simultaneously pressuring developers to reflect the president's worldview
Continue reading ›
The same infrastructure powering your AI assistant could soon burn more natural gas than two of the world's largest economies — and states are already trying to stop it.
Continue reading ›
A Bitcoin miner just raised $2.2 billion to power Meta's AI training—and bond investors lined up four deep to hand it over.
Continue reading ›
The company building the future can't figure out how to pay for it. OpenAI projects $278-280B in negative cash flows through 2030 as compute infrastructure costs surge and pricing pressure intensifies
Continue reading ›
While tech CEOs debate the robot apocalypse, Hollywood labor unions are watching their members get replaced in real time. Tech companies warn about AI's existential threats while major studios (Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate) stay silent on their AI usage
Continue reading ›
The Pentagon came within hours of scrambling jets based on intelligence that never existed outside a language model's fever dream.
Continue reading ›
The company racing to build artificial general intelligence just revealed what it actually costs to get there — and the number is large enough to make venture capitalists rethink the entire model.
Continue reading ›
The man selling the shovels just told everyone exactly how big the gold rush will be. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reaffirmed his forecast of $3T-$4T in AI infrastructure spending by 2030, doubling down on the most aggressive build-out estimate in tech history
Continue reading ›
The Claude maker is about to print more revenue than most Fortune 500 companies, and it's rushing to go public before the AI bubble gets a reality check. Anthropic will hit $100 billion in annualized revenue in 2026, putting it in the revenue tier of Apple, Amazon, and Exxon
Continue reading ›
The picks-and-shovels play for the AI gold rush just got a ticker symbol. Nscale filed for an IPO in New York, a data center developer backed by Nvidia and partnered with Microsoft, betting public markets will pay premium for AI infrastructure.
Continue reading ›
A data center company just raised $4 billion by turning flared natural gas into GPU farms, and its CEO thinks the real problem is branding. Crusoe Energy raised nearly $4 billion, pushing its valuation to $31 billion, funding expansion across data centers, cloud computing, and managed AI services
Continue reading ›
The industry's biggest rivals just formed a safety cartel while an investor bets their concerns won't touch the only number that matters: capex.
Continue reading ›
The AI industry thought a killer use case would silence the critics—turns out, watching your job get automated in real-time just makes people angrier. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now operate your computer apps for you, executing tasks requiring deep software expertise through voice commands alone
Continue reading ›
The companies racing to build superintelligence just admitted the grid can't keep up. Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and 15 others launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) to dynamically manage data center electricity use based on real-time grid conditions
Continue reading ›
Wall Street just told us what AI infrastructure is actually worth to them, and the number is four times what anyone expected to need. CleanSpark raised $2.23 billion in junk bonds to build AI data center infrastructure for Meta, marking the first high-yield debt offering for a Meta-tied facility
Continue reading ›