Agent token consumption on OpenRouter rose from 0.51 trillion to 7.3 trillion tokens in six months, a 14x increase, versus 2.8x growth for human usage, according to OpenRouter data compiled by Peter W…
President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post on August 31, 2026, that U.S. communities blocking data centers will become 'backwards and poor,' as a Gallup survey found 71% of Americans oppose …
Goldman Sachs estimates that artificial intelligence could reallocate about 9% of the U.S. workforce—roughly 15 million workers—from their current positions over a 10-year transition, according to a J…
Goldman Sachs Research estimates that artificial intelligence has reduced monthly US payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs over the past year, nudging the unemployment rate up by 0.1 percentage points…
Global AI-related investment is projected to reach around $1 trillion in 2026, equivalent to 0.9% of global GDP, according to Goldman Sachs Research, with the US alone expected to account for $581 bil…
Mistral AI announced Tuesday a three-part expansion of its infrastructure business, including regional inference endpoints, a Priority Tier with uptime guarantees, and a coalition of European enterpri…
A chart from Apollo's Torsten Slok shows an inverted AI margin chain, with silicon and equipment suppliers earning 41% operating margins while models and applications lose 59%, indicating that AI prof…
Synopsys announced the industry's first complete Compute Express Link (CXL) 4.0 intellectual property suite, including a controller, IDE security modules, a PCIe 7.0-based physical layer, and verifica…
Laid-off US workers are increasingly turning to TikTok and YouTube content creation as a precarious alternative to traditional jobs, with US employers adding only 57,000 non-farm jobs in June 2026 and…
The International Energy Agency and Goldman Sachs Research project data center power demand could rise 165% by 2030, with AI and data centers becoming a major source of electricity demand. The author …
Meta and Microsoft report earnings on July 29 with investors focused on massive capital spending tied to AI infrastructure. Meta lifted its 2026 capex guidance to $125 billion to $145 billion, while M…
At AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, AMD announced the EPYC "Venice" server chip, the Instinct MI450 series, and the Helios rack-scale system, with Meta and OpenAI committing approximately 12 gi…
Spectro Cloud released PaletteAI Inference Launchpad, a turnkey software appliance that turns a GPU server into a governed, production-ready local inference platform, aiming to reduce AI token costs. …
Spectro Cloud launched PaletteAI Inference Launchpad, a turnkey locally managed solution that cuts enterprise token costs by up to 70%, and expanded support for AMD-powered hardware. The platform addr…
Communities across the United States are being transformed into "AI Exclusion Zones" as data centers for artificial intelligence operations are built in suburban and rural areas without resident conse…