Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state’s 400-plus data centers steadily incre

A researcher at the Energy and Policy Institute thinks that the new gas plant wouldn’t be necessary without data center-driven demand, and a representative of the Virginia Energy Consumer Alliance thinks that the added f…

AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to div

To determine whether confusion about roles was specific to their attack or a more generalizable principle that explains why prompt injection works, the researchers took a different approach. They hid a command in a webpa…

Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and prov

“Supermicro’s offices in Taiwan were not raided by any government authorities,” Supermicro Chief Revenue Officer Matt Thauberger told customers and partners in a written statement. He also confirmed with the Taiwanese go…

Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory t

“The Nvidia chip that Gabriel was just holding on stage is now plugged into a circuit in the OCS. That circuit runs through a cable into the reactor hall. In the reactor hall, 10 to 15th power uranium atoms are fissionin…

SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed

Unlike Yongin, the Southwestern Semiconductor Cluster does not even exist. It is currently a planned project, and SK hynix has not even selected a specific site within southwestern Korea. The company says the exact locat…