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Delays in permitting, power, and zoning cause first drop in data center construction since 2020
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (437+ words) Despite incredible demand, the number of data centers under construction in North America fell for the first time since 2020, according to new research from CBRE. Total data center capacity under construction dropped about 5.6% year on year from 6.35 megawatts in 2024 to…...
Google drops new Nano Banana
5+ hour, 58+ min ago (1731+ words) GoogleGOOGL $307.31 (-1.79%) is hoping to recapture the viral boost it received when it released its Nano Banana image generation model. Nano Banana 2 arrives today, which Google has rolled into its Gemini app. The new model promises more accurate text rendering and…...
Will the US government release the alien files?
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1794+ words) In the last few weeks, two US presidents have weighed in on the presence of extraterrestrial life " fueling one of America's longest-held suspicions. For much of the last century, Americans have imagined that if you came across aliens on Earth,…...
Anthropic follows OpenAI in rolling out agentic tools for enterprise
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (634+ words) Just a day after OpenAI rolled out its agentic platform for enterprise, Anthropic has announced its own. Built from existing pieces of Anthropic tech that have already been previewed, the new platform essentially ties together plug-ins that can be tailored…...
What Amazon’s latest data center announcement says about AI right now
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (1023+ words) The first Amazon data centers in Louisiana will cost $12 billion and requires a lot of preemptive defense. Another day, another Big Tech data center. Today Amazon announced plans to spend $12 billion on its first data center campuses in Louisiana. "Amazon's…...
Report: Amazon’s AI bots have been behind multiple AWS outages
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (744+ words) Amazon's AI tool Kiro, which launched in July and can code autonomously, was behind a 13-hour interruption to Amazon Web Services in December, according to reporting by the Financial Times. The FT reports that the company's AI tools have caused…...
Meta is bringing back facial recognition for its smart glasses
1+ week, 6+ day ago (460+ words) Meta is reviving its highly controversial facial recognition efforts, with plans to incorporate the tech into its smart glasses as soon as this year, The New York Times reports. Now, according to an internal memo reviewed by the Times, Meta…...
Meta breaks ground on massive $10 billion AI data center — and the costs won’t stop there
2+ week, 1+ day ago (683+ words) Meta announced today that it broke ground on a new, giant AI data center: This one is located in Indiana, has 1GW of capacity, and will cost more than $10 billion. In a press release, the company touted the 4,000 construction jobs and…...
Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raises $520 million
2+ week, 1+ day ago (441+ words) Apptronik, an Austin, Texas-based robot manufacturer, said it has closed out its Series A fundraising round, raising $520 million. The fundraising is an extension of a $415 million round raised last February, and included investments from Google, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, and John…...
The data center development boom is headed downtown
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1331+ words) Perched atop a famed Art Deco skyscraper in Chicago's South Loop, a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, looks upon downtown clutching a sheaf of wheat and a bag of corn. It's a calling card for the building's…...