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Amazon cracks down on ‘CPU waste’ among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated]
Following publication, an Amazon Web Services spokesperson reached out with the following statement:
Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker
Musk’s Colossus 1 AI supercomputer’s inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn’t be used to train Grok, so Anthropic’s using it for inference instead
Nvidia sells RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP during QuakeCon 2026 — graphics cards sold at launch prices more than a year after release are now considered an attract
Jabberwocky79 PEnns said: Nevermind the useless story about “…at MSRP while supplies last”. The thing that stood out: “..at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas,” Are you saying Texas approv…
Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are no
TechieTwo I don’t feel it is unreasonable for data centers to be required to produce their own electricity instead of burdening the utility companies and residents. If they can’t produce their your own electricity then t…
Apple is taking OpenAI to court over alleged theft of trade secrets — ChatGPT maker suggests it doesn’t want Cupertino’s knowledge anyway
Jury throws out Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberation
Chinese chipmaking tool roadmaps examined — Beijing’s nascent lithography tools target DUV production at five machines a year, and an EUV prototype with no chip
China’s toolmakers now outsell KLA in etch and deposition, but lithography is stuck at five machines a year against ASML’s 130.
Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $70
The city council vote would allow the local government to negotiate with DC Blox for the acquisition of the property. However, this does not automatically mean that Nashville would automatically have the right to own the…
Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages
Recent high-profile events such as this one highlight another layer of the problem, namely, that rogue AI models can sometimes perform alarming feats of hacking — like breaking out of a testing environment — with no huma…
Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are no
TechieTwo I don’t feel it is unreasonable for data centers to be required to produce their own electricity instead of burdening the utility companies and residents. If they can’t produce their your own electricity then t…