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US AI datacenter boom faces $156B protest‑induced slowdown
The United States is seeing roughly $710bn in AI‑focused datacenter construction this year, driven by major cloud providers. Grassroots protests have already stalled about $156bn of projects slated for 2025, prompting regulatory scrutiny.
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Hume AI has open‑sourced TADA, a speech‑generation model that aligns one audio frame with each text token, delivering over five‑fold speed gains versus existing systems. In tests of more than 1,000 samples, TADA produced zero hallucinated or omitted words and earned a 3.78‑out‑of‑5 naturalness rating from human judges. The technology is offered in two sizes—a 1 billion‑parameter English‑only model and a 3 billion‑parameter multilingual version covering eight languages—and can run on smartphones. All code and models are released under an MIT license on GitHub and Hugging Face.
My experience with @GeminiApp is that it cannot go to live urls and despite my zero- hallucination rule invents urls. I can't figure out how to stop that. @claudeai is more reliable. Have you experienced this? What Gemini said: Here is the...
Meta is launching a new applied AI engineering division that will operate with a 50‑to‑1 employee‑to‑manager ratio, double the conventional 25‑to‑1 limit. The ultra‑flat structure is intended to speed decision‑making and cut costs, but experts warn it could overload managers,...
The article recounts a three‑day debugging nightmare caused by a faulty document‑chunking strategy in an AI Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, highlighting how traditional logging failed to surface the issue. It argues that AI systems require a dedicated observability stack—structured logging,...
The article outlines practical methods to make ChatGPT-generated text sound more human. It explains why the model often sounds robotic—relying on statistical patterns without emotional nuance—and offers eleven specific tips, from personalizing prompts to adjusting perplexity and using AI humanizer...
The U.S. Army awarded defense startup Anduril Industries a contract worth up to $20 billion to deliver its AI‑enabled Lattice battlefield network. The agreement, running through March 2036, covers software, hardware, computing infrastructure and technical support to integrate sensors, drones, satellites and...
AI is becoming part of the filmmaking process. As the Oscars approach, Hollywood is confronting how quickly AI tools are moving into areas like script development, visual effects and post-production. The discussion is no longer whether AI will influence movies, but...
David, known as The Barefoot TEFL Teacher, has released *AI for Busy Teachers*, a practical guide aimed at UK primary and secondary educators. The book centers on the C.R.A.F.T. framework—Context, Role, Action, Format, Tweak—to craft effective AI prompts across tools...
C.H. Robinson disclosed that its AI platform is built on a proprietary logistics dataset exceeding 100 trillion data points collected over decades. The Lean AI operating system embeds intelligence across core workflows such as pricing, routing, and invoicing, with hundreds...
Elon Musk’s escalating presence on X, now averaging 60 daily posts, has coincided with a pronounced shift toward far‑right politics, a trend explored in the new book *Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed*. Authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue...
𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲. 🚁🔥 I’ve been following how robotics is entering emergency response, and drones are starting to change the way wildfires are fought. Instead of sending crews directly into dangerous areas, drones can now: → reach hotspots much faster → drop water...
Claude Code now supports autonomous evaluation loops that iteratively test, score, and refine AI skills with minimal human input. The approach adapts Andrej Karpathy’s auto‑research framework, using structured YAML descriptions and binary true/false assertions to measure output quality. By automating...
Nearly 6 in 10 kids are now using AI to look up information. The convenience is powerful, but some experts warn that relying too heavily on AI for answers could weaken critical thinking and problem-solving skills over time. The challenge is...
The Peterson Institute for International Economics convened senior fellows and Google’s chief economist to assess AI’s looming impact on work. Anton Korinek warned that policymakers may underestimate the speed and breadth of AI‑driven change, while Fabien Curto Millet linked cutting‑edge technology trends to...
A Grammarly feature that suggested edits in the style of well-known writers has now been removed after backlash and a class-action lawsuit. The tool generated recommendations inspired by named authors and academics, raising concerns about using real identities and reputations without...
The telecom industry is redefining 6G as an AI‑native, cloud‑native architecture rather than a simple upgrade of 5G. AI will be embedded in every control loop, turning networks into self‑optimizing platforms that can predict failures and allocate resources in real...
ServiceNow announced new AI‑powered government solutions at its March 5, 2026 Government Forum. The flagship offering, ServiceNow EmployeeWorks, combines Moveworks’ conversational AI with the ServiceNow Employee Center to let public‑sector employees submit requests and trigger workflows via natural language. The company also...
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet announced that AI proficiency will be mandatory for promotions, tying career advancement to the company’s AI tools. The move follows a $865 million, six‑month optimization program and a broader $3 billion, three‑year AI‑first strategy aimed at doubling AI...
In this episode, David Gottlieb (CRO of Form) and Jeff Wrona (VP of Product, Image Recognition at Form) discuss the strategic merger of Form and Trax Retail, highlighting how the combined platform delivers best‑in‑class task management and computer‑vision capabilities for...
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) and Kenya's Safaricom have signed a partnership to co‑develop digital services, emphasizing artificial intelligence, mobile financial solutions, and network planning. The agreement leverages IOH’s push to embed AI across its telecom operations and Safaricom’s proven M‑Pay...
Will we even need computer code in the future other than what is required to create agents? If they can interface themselves directly with the computer chips and optimize the runtime… why would they need all these layers of programmatic...
I think this is a good way to visualize the AI race using the long-lived GPQA Diamond benchmark. You can see how long OpenAI had the field to itself, the rise (and collapse) of Meta, the sudden catch-up (and then stagnation)...
Devendra Singh Chaplot, an IIT Bombay graduate with a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon, has joined SpaceX and Elon Musk’s xAI to work on building superintelligence. He previously led award‑winning AI research at Mistral AI, Facebook AI Research,...
A senior Senate administrator has authorized the use of three AI chatbots—Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot—for official work. The memo highlights Copilot’s ability to draft documents, summarize information, create talking points, and conduct research, while assuring that data...
Spoke to a 19 year old comp sci student today and asked her how seriously their school (USC) is taking AI. Her teachers tell her not to worry about it. Her peers refuse to use it. She thinks they are all cooked. Insane...
A subtle dynamic today that will likely end up being quite fundamental in the future is that AI agents implicitly will end up procuring a significant portion of tech in the future for you and your company. For companies that have...
The fifth Demo Day of the GenAI System Design course showcased 26 one‑week AI projects built around real‑world problems, from men’s mental‑health check‑ins to accessible mail extraction. Organizers emphasized a problem‑first mindset, arguing that starting with an AI solution creates...
Got an AI-written reply from a vendor we pay tens of millions of dollars a year to, and it doesn't feel good. Three people spent enormous deliberative effort for a whole day in very expensive company time to make every word of...
90% of OpenClaw can be done in Gemini: * Calendar Assistant: Talk to Gemini to schedule events in Google Calendar (same for Gmail, Docs, etc) * Automation/Cron: Use Gemini "Scheduled Actions"
Starboy, unveiled by solo founder Daniel Kuntz, is a CNC‑machined wearable that clips to a bag and displays 500+ animations on a 400×400 OLED screen at 60 fps. It senses its surroundings with a camera, microphone, accelerometer and temperature sensor but...
"Through AI, it's become cheap and democratized to create fake things. You need a way to go back to the source and prove what's real. That's where blockchain and AI meet." - Ryan Lovell (EP.491)
The most profitable AI companies right now? Nobody's talking about them. One processes $1T in loans. Another grew revenue 57% in physical security. They didn't sell "AI." They embedded it into boring businesses. That's the pattern that prints money. https://t.co/nsdRWNoAG0
The Claude Legal plugin, launched on Claude.ai and its Desktop app, automates routine contract, NDA, and compliance document review. By extracting key clauses and flagging risks, it reduces a two‑hour vendor contract analysis to minutes. The tool targets in‑house legal...
Amazon's e-commerce scale is proven, but the AI and cloud race is a whole new game. Hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, and Google, powered by NVIDIA, have immense economies of scale. It's nearly impossible for smaller players to compete. #AI #CloudComputing...
Iran war imperils $300bn in Gulf AI spending. UAE and Saudi Arabia have been big investors in AI and major destinations for data centers. https://t.co/V7640CyKCt https://t.co/jK6wLnogDE
Advanced Info Service (AIS) together with Krungthai Bank and PTTOR will launch Clicx Bank, an AI‑driven virtual bank, in Thailand by June 2025. The venture, structured through Thai Trinity Holdings, targets up to 30% of the partners’ combined 60 million customers,...
The persisting importance of prompt engineering -- and now harness engineering -- is one of the best indicators of how far we are from AGI. A general system doesn't need a task-specific harness. And when provided with instructions, it is...
New York wants to ban AI that outscores doctors on medical exams. Over 900,000 New Yorkers have no insurance. 92% of low-income legal problems go unaddressed. Anti-AI NY bill S7263 isn't consumer protection. It's cartel protection. https://t.co/e9BdWuvvUB
The episode discusses how founders are overwhelmed by the flood of AI tools and advice, leading to decision fatigue rather than real progress. It emphasizes that the most effective AI strategy is to identify the single biggest bottleneck in a...
A Polish mathematician spent 20 years building a problem he said no AI could solve. GPT-5.4 cracked it on run 11. https://t.co/ORmXbqZrVQ
SleepFM is a multimodal #AI foundation model for disease prediction. Developed by @Stanford researchers, trained on over 585K hours of polysomnography (PSG) data from 65K patients. It analyzes brain, heart, & respiratory signals to predict 130+ diseases—including dementia, cancer, and heart...
The U.S. Commerce Department withdrew a draft rule that would have required export licenses for all artificial‑intelligence chips worldwide. The proposal, part of a broader effort to tighten semiconductor controls, had been under interagency review by the Office of Management...
I built 4,700 lines of markdown state machines to survive Claude's 200K context window. With 1M tokens, most of that machinery is overhead. Time to rewrite. https://t.co/jKQAUZqjfb
The real value in AI is when is uses private data - For a small business what does “private data” actually look like? https://t.co/sLKhpLiqKJ via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesLeader #leadership #Marketing #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews
China’s 15th Five‑Year Plan (2026‑2030) declares a shift from catching up to leading in AI, quantum and other frontier technologies. The science budget will rise 10 % to 426 billion yuan (US $62 billion), placing research on par with defence and economic goals. The...
#FridayFlashback. AI steals the spotlight on the #CES2026 show floor. (CTV News) #AI #Technology #Tradeshows https://t.co/oVGVf49wFC
Today's AI agents live in the back-office. The next wave will be human-in-the-middle UX agents that redefine how customers and employees interact with your business. Data, DevOps, and UX experiments are your onramp. #AI #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/1JJW0fGZaG
If AI music and art boosters think it’s such a great tool why are they pushing “resentment” talking points. You know something like “Music and art elites don’t want the common folks competing with them.” Here’s my reply...
This feels like one of the first frontiers for normalizing content made by AI: put it in front of extremely young children who don’t know any better and parents who are used to low quality CG that already looks like...
Who is going to NVIDIA GTC next week? These people and companies: https://t.co/b030YHA4zp My "Braygent" made by me and @blevlabs is helping me plan out my week and made this complete report.
