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Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
Jun 23, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled al…
Jun 23, 2026
The Register
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’
Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right
Jun 23, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Jun 23, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs
OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.
Jun 23, 2026
The Verge
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water
Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled da…
Jun 22, 2026
Politico Technology
Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill
The legislation aims to boost training programs for the jobs needed in an AI future.
Jun 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
Jun 22, 2026
The Register
Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions
The air turns brown when bit barns come to town … deep in the heart of Texas
Jun 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Jun 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
Jun 22, 2026
The Register
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research
Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
Jun 22, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s l…
Jun 22, 2026
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TechCrunch AI
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center ne…
Jun 22, 2026
Ars Technica
How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
Jun 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
Jun 21, 2026
The Verge
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 mill…
Jun 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
Jun 20, 2026
The Register
Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance
VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually
Jun 20, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
Jun 19, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Virtual Training Course
Large language models have moved out of the research lab and into engineers’ daily workflow. LLMs serve as reasoning engines that can orchestrate complex tasks including identifying vulnerabilities in…
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way t…
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way t…
Jun 19, 2026
The Register
Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia
Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms
Jun 19, 2026
The Register
Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport
Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
Jun 19, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding …
Jun 19, 2026
The Register
Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned
Jun 19, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models fo…
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
Jun 19, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
Jun 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
Jun 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
Jun 18, 2026
Ars Technica
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
Jun 18, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI hires former Trump AI official Dean Ball
The artificial intelligence giant has hired the former top White House AI adviser and lead author of the White House’s AI Action Plan.
Jun 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Jun 18, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge
By mimicking how the brain operates, neuromorphic computing can use dramatically less energy than conventional electronic AI chips. However, even the most sophisticated neuromorphic devices today are …
Jun 18, 2026
Politico Technology
Gottheimer readies AI bill to vet powerful AI models for risk
The New Jersey Democrat says advanced AI models should face mandatory government reviews for national security, critical infrastructure and bioterror risks.
Jun 18, 2026
The Register
Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn
Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
Jun 17, 2026
Ars Technica
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
Jun 17, 2026
The Verge
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including us…
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand
Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its…
Jun 17, 2026
Ars Technica
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials
AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
Jun 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows
Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.
Jun 17, 2026
The Register
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
Jun 17, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in p…
Jun 17, 2026