The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure […]
Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze
Entering into the world of venture capital has never been easy, especially as a first-time fund manager. But it’s especially daunting right now. Olaf Sakkers has spent the past five years proving that difficult doesn’t mean impossible.
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth
CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.
With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy.
Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?
“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
Siri co-founder backs Helix for its voice ID tech
Helix said that its voice ID tech can run on an iPhone 13
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can’t know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn’t need them to. He uses Databricks’ newly revised Genie agent for that.