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TechCrunch reports the largest US grid operator secured a 202(c) order letting transmission owners curtail loads at or above 50 MW peak demand, requiring a switch to on-site generation within 15 minutes of an emergency signal. Hospitals, 911, water treatment, air traffic control, and defense are exempt. PJM's board separately proposed a rule that new large loads arriving without their own power supply get curtailed first. PJM peaked above 166,241 MW on July 2, beating the 2006 record. If you're planning a large-load colo in PJM territory, "bring your own generation" just moved from nice-to-have to queue priority.
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Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
OSTP Director Michael Kratsios posted July 22 that Moonshot built "a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models," switching access methods to avoid detection, and acquired GB300-equipped servers plus GB300 access in Thailand. TechCr...
Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
Sandhya Devanathan departs after more than a decade to run consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia, based in Singapore, reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. It follows Prabhjeet Sin...
The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
Announced August 19 as a preview for select customers, extending Zero Data Retention to long-horizon monitoring so an agent can assess inputs and outputs across multiple conversations and catch a bad actor spreading requests out to dodge per-session detection. When triggered i...
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