Starcloud, Inc. announced plans to place bitcoin mining ASICs aboard its Starcloud-2 spacecraft, which CEO Philip Johnston said will launch in 2027 as part of a pair of satellites. The Washington-base…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier" on AI development is drawing pushback from President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who view any slowdown as a strategic surrender, acco…
A group of space tech veterans led by Starcloud co-founder Philip Johnston plans to launch the Fermi Explorer, a 150-kilogram spacecraft that would travel to Alpha Centauri at 23.6 kilometers per seco…
An analysis of the 80,000 Hours Podcast episode with Rob Wiblin highlights a dramatic 2026 recalibration of AGI timelines, citing an 8,400% revenue explosion at Anthropic, METR task completion acceler…
SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
Meta's AI-optimized data centers use closed-loop liquid cooling, which recirculates a water-glycol mixture through heat exchangers, to efficiently cool GPU servers, reducing water usage to less than t…
Cerebras Systems is demonstrating that its Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) architecture significantly reduces inference latency for large language models by keeping the entire model on a single silicon wafer…
Etched shipped its first Sohu transformer-only ASIC rack to Jane Street and raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation on August 18, tripling its valuation since December. The eight-chip Sohu rack…
The National University of Singapore's Life Sciences Institute launched the world's first biologically integrated server rack on July 16, using 20 Cortical Labs CL1 units powered by lab-grown human ne…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requested public comment on August 19 on how U.S. exchanges should list and oversee derivatives tied to AI computing capacity, with comments open for 60 days a…
Pika, the AI video startup co-founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, disclosed on April 2, 2026, that its PikaStream1.0 architecture generates real-time 480p video at 24 fps on a single Nvidia H100 GPU…
A developer argues that high-VRAM GPUs like Nvidia H100s or RTX 4090s should be used for compute-heavy tasks beyond local LLMs, such as real-time fluid dynamics, custom GAN training on niche datasets,…
Runware has deployed a 1MW AI data center inside a 20-foot shipping container, using direct-to-chip liquid cooling to manage the extreme thermal density. The modular unit can be craned onto a reinforc…
SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
Meta's free cash flow plunged 91% in the latest quarter as the company ramps up spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, including thousands of Nvidia H100 GPUs. The social media giant, whi…
An analogy comparing LLM weights to the human soul suggests that viewing weights as soul-like provides a grounded perspective on how human souls might work, including the possibility of multiple insta…
The Air Force Research Laboratory unveiled Flyer, a $20 million supercomputer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, on June 18. The HPE Cray XD system delivers 8.7 petaFLOPS and includes 64 Nvidia H100 …