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Ontario proposes a new, higher electricity rate class for new data centers above 1 MW and bars them from cash incentives, framing AI demand as the grid's next cost problem.
A Penn State-led round-robin (multi-lab replication test) in Nature Catalysis made scientific AI's hidden amplifier visible: training on days of catalyst data to predict months of deactivation, the small noise between labs may compound across the
The 4,900 flaws, 85 of them critical, hit 390 open-source Bitcoin projects and were found by Chinese AI because U.S. acceptable-use policy blocks the prompts.
Amazon's three Calvert Cliffs data centers are dead, and the company's stated reason hides the actual cause. The mechanism is replicable, and three-quarters of Maryland already live under it.
Gov. Spanberger came to northern Virginia to oppose a statewide ban. Loudoun County, which already hosts roughly 250 data centers, says it cannot impose its own pause.
A new Amazon AGI paper says the field's FLOP-based budgeting rule can pick a design that costs several-fold more GPU-hours to train than the math predicted, sharpest for sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis wants a private, industry-funded AI safety body. Treasury Secretary Bessent is separately designing a public one.
Oracle's Exadata database-platform tier opens a $380-a-month entry into a category that used to start near $11,500. The mechanism is what to watch.
First-person video of skilled manual work, captured by India's informal labor, is becoming the physical layer of humanoid robot training. The wage reveals who sits at the bottom of the new AI supply chain.
Decart's team would join Anthropic's inference unit, bringing real-time video and simulation tools as the Claude maker races to scale before its expected IPO.
The Tel Aviv company says attackers now exploit flaws before fixes ship, and is using the round to extend its runtime-blocking platform to AI-agent applications.
The quantum hardware maker posted a $25.47M net loss, raised 2026 guidance to $43M, and ended the quarter with $582M in cash and no debt.