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Last year, the first few months of data from the US grid suggested that fears of a data-center-driven surge in demand were becoming a reality. Demand had risen by about 3 percent, triggering a surge in coal, interrupting what had been a long downward trend. But over the course of
news:ars-technica- 2026-05-22Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It’s no
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- 2026-05-222026.21: The Data Center Veto
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ANTHROPICnews:stratechery - 2026-05-22Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right
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President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an event on Thursday just hours before he was scheduled to sign an executive order granting the government the power to test frontier AI models before their public release. As The New York Times explained, Trump had been hoping that top ex
ANTHROPICnews:ars-technicaClass-action price-fixing lawsuit targets hard drive component makers as costs skyrocket — 13-year scheme allegedly drove up prices for major HDD brands U.S. class action mirrors the existing Canadian one. A class-action lawsuit was filed against nearly every major hard drive sus
GOOGLnews:toms-hardwareThe merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News. As of this writing, the website of Based Apparel is offline. On Thur
news:techcrunchIn Apple’s seemingly never-ending lawsuit with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store commissions, the iPhone maker is once again fighting a court’s ruling. Its latest tactic? Saying that Epic Games’ beef with Apple over its fee structure shouldn’t lead to an injunction that ap
AAPLnews:techcrunchWhen we reviewed the new Steam Controller last month, we noted how the satisfying click of the magnetic charging puck easily connecting to the back of the controller lets users “save the hassle of fiddling with a power cord.” But one Reddit user’s experience highlights how the ex
news:ars-technicaNorway’s 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian language and is using 2 PB of Huawei OceanStor Dorado flash storage in its AI training data pipeline. Marius Husnes, t
FORMnews:blocksandfilesSpotify was a music app at one time. Then it added podcasts. Then audiobooks. Now the company is piling AI features into its app at a pace that can feel overwhelming. The latest wave, announced at its investor day, skews heavily toward using AI to generate content rather than usi
ANTHROPICnews:techcrunchEarlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “10 blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn’t seem to have conside
GOOGLnews:techcrunch- 2026-05-22Huawei’s up to 90:1 compression card
Huawei’s up to 90:1 compression card Huawei has announced a hardware compression card with an up to 90:1 reduction ratio. It sounds too good to be true. How has it done that? The card is part of its all-flash, OceanProtect Backup Storage systems and uses “HZU algorithms for deep
news:blocksandfiles - 2026-05-22Storage news ticker - 22 May
Storage news ticker - 22 May Alluxio AI v3.9 has a POSIX write cache with: - 7.6 GiB/s peak write throughput on a single node - 20 GiB/s scaling near-linearly across 3 nodes - Sub-2ms P99 write latency — because tail latency is what gates your training step - Works transparently
AGILITYnews:blocksandfiles - news:ft-tech
LucidLink CEO says it's needed for AEC data center boom LucidLink CEO Peter Thompson reckons that an AI data center boom is exposing a largely overlooked bottleneck inside AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) firms: how project teams access, manage and collaborate on
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Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Why Material Specifications Matter in Hyperscale Projects As hyperscale data center timelines tighten, companies must assess how building material decisions could introduce schedule, sequencing, and rewo
FIGUREnews:datacenterknowledge- 2026-05-22What’s new with Google Cloud
What’s new with Google Cloud Google Cloud Content & Editorial Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip: Not sure where to fin
GOOGLnews:gcp-blog The Blueprint: How Movix fills a gap in dental skills with specialized agentic AI Marina Domracheva Founder and CEO Bakit Dzhumagulov Co-founder and CTO Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challe
GOOGLnews:gcp-blogHigh‑quality 3D medical imaging data is the foundation of modern radiology AI, but access to it is often constrained by data scarcity, privacy restrictions, and the high cost of expert annotation. As a result, training reliable 3D medical imaging models is frequently bottlenecked
FIGUREnews:nvidia-developer-blog- news:bloomberg-tech
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AMDnews:theregisterChinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages Corsair typically only buys from Micron, Samsung, or SK Hynix. In late 2024, China-based ChangXing Memory Technologies (CX
AMDnews:toms-hardwareMicrosoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of GitHub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018. But repeated outages, executive turnover, and the soaring popularity of newer tools like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code have eaten awa
AMZNnews:cnbc-techAt the Google I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with Google’s upcoming AI-powered glasses — not the audio-only glasses that the company said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and visual e
AAPLnews:techcrunch- 2026-05-22Are Fintech Apps Already Dead?news:bloomberg-tech
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AMDnews:theregister- 2026-05-22The Rise of AI Public Safetynews:bloomberg-tech
The 15 Best Memorial Day deals on Dell and Alienware laptops, desktops, and monitors — save up to $900 on the latest tech Big deals on Dell Ahead of this weekend's Memorial Day Holiday, Dell has begun hosting Memorial Day deals alongside its current Tech Refresh event. Dell's sal
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Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing Muddy water is coming out of Morgan County taps. A Meta data center project is reportedly caus
GOOGLnews:toms-hardwareSave up to $300 on a new 3D printer right now, thanks to these Memorial Day deals — filament and resin 3DP deals from Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and more are perfect for beginners and pros Get started on a new hobby over this Memorial Day weekend If you're thinking about buying
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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. If you're looking for a book for the long weekend, JPMorgan has some ideas. Stock futures are higher before the bell. All three major indexes posted a winning day yest
AMZNnews:cnbc-techAfter a year, Firefox finally stops crashing on Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs — Mozilla releases new version patch critical flaw on Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs Firefox crashes were reportedly linked to Intel CPU instability. Mozilla has successfully addressed a critical bug relat
AMZNnews:toms-hardware- news:datacenterdynamics
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order identifiers to the open internet. Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is inves
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- 2026-05-22The literary world isn’t prepared for AI
Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. The literary
ANTHROPICnews:theverge-ai The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a val
AAPLnews:techcrunchAnalyst says Nvidia poised to capture two-thirds of the x86 server CPU market from Intel and AMD with expected $20 billion in revenue — 'Nvidia is already on track' to deliver 4 million Vera CPUs in FY2027 Nvidia's x86 CPU success rests on vertical integration. This week, Nvidia
AMDnews:toms-hardwareNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent a long email to employees on Friday morning outlining several structural changes that are intended to make the sprawling agency more efficient and allow it to better accomplish major goals, such as returning to the Moon and building a base t
news:ars-technicaMOST POPULAR EVENTS - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines. - Overcoming the trade-offs in
AMDnews:theregisterMeta has quietly released a new stand-alone app for Facebook Groups called “Forum.” The company seems to be positioning Forum as a platform that functions similarly to Reddit, describing the app as a “dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you
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