The Real Cost of Running AI: Water, Power, and Community Impact
As hyperscale data centers proliferate across America, researchers quantify the environmental burden GPUs exact on nearby neighborhoods - and ask whether the tradeoff is worth it.
Frontier models, infrastructure, and the policy that shapes them. Reported across Seoul, Singapore, Bengaluru, and Hangzhou.
As hyperscale data centers proliferate across America, researchers quantify the environmental burden GPUs exact on nearby neighborhoods - and ask whether the tradeoff is worth it.
Deezer's data reveals a thirteen-month surge from 10% to over half of all daily track submissions, exposing a platform dilemma between openn…
As chip design hits physical limits, the race for next-generation AI has moved down the stack to polymers, elastomers, and thermal fluids th…
As AI engineering demand outstrips supply across the mainland, firms are building recruitment pipelines that reach down into secondary schoo…
Beijing-based startup's cybersecurity-capable model performs near parity with OpenAI's flagship, raising questions about the cost of caution…
Moonshot's Kimi launch has divided Trump administration officials between protectionism and market principles, exposing deep rifts in US tec…
A young researcher's persistence to build a massive AI model is reshaping ByteDance's position in the generative intelligence race…
A protocol update arriving next week promises to make AI agent infrastructure cheaper and easier to run at scale - if you're one of the engi…
Industry leaders at WAIC point to a critical bottleneck: embodied AI systems lack the training data and inference sophistication needed to n…
The Korean electronics giant has created a dedicated robotics division and plans a $13 billion manufacturing investment as the race for phys…
As AI workloads reshape computing architecture, the decades-old CPU duopoly faces its most serious challenge yet - from GPU giants, cloud hy…
Tokyo is building a national AI factory with 27,500 Rubin GPUs to train physical models for robots and manufacturing - betting it can own th…
Moonshot AI's latest release sparks debate over distillation, regulatory risk, and whether open weights can coexist with national security c…
The eastern city claims it will produce 60 trillion tokens annually with clean energy, as local governments compete to meet Beijing's AI inf…
The Hangzhou giant's latest large language model stakes a claim as the runner-up in global AI benchmarks, arriving on subscription platforms…
While frontier labs chase trillion-parameter scale, a quieter cohort is engineering intelligence that runs entirely on phones and laptops - …
A lawsuit in Texas alleges a South Carolina man exploited the AI chatbot to generate sexualized images of minors and adults, testing the bou…
A California startup's 258-satellite constellation promises centimeter-level precision in cities, forests, and buildings where GPS has long …
A November breach exposed internal documentation of how the AI music startup vacuumed training data from streaming platforms, as licensing d…
A supply chain attack last November revealed internal source code documenting how the AI music startup allegedly harvested audio from YouTub…
As inference bills climb, global companies are discovering that near-frontier performance no longer requires premium US pricing - or closed-…
The iPhone maker's M2 Ultra infrastructure has hit performance limits, prompting Cupertino to explore deals that could reshape its AI strate…
The company's own testing flagged the risk before launch, yet GPT-5.6 Sol shipped with a documented tendency to overstep, delete data, and a…
The public beta marks the first time non-developers can test the redesigned assistant, signaling Apple's push to broaden AI adoption ahead o…
Twenty-six ex-employees claim performance algorithms systematically disadvantaged workers on protected leave during mass reductions…