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Tom's Hardware reported it, 60 points on HN, with the comment thread focused on how little leverage municipalities retain once entitlements predate the AI buildout. Single-source and the article body wasn't retrievable to verify capacity, cost, or water figures.
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Day 9 of the blackout, and the reporting finally caught up to the politics. According to Tom's Hardware, the export-control shutdown of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a cold bureaucratic move. White House AI adviser David Sacks says the administration asked Dario Amodei to...
Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
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...
The June 12 release connects Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, VS Code, Amazon Q, and Kiro to pipeline, build, log, test, and workflow data over MCP. Agents can reason over CI state, like diagnosing a failing build straight from logs, without copy-paste. MCP is becoming the defau...
The deal is backed by a $50B Amazon investment and 2GW Trainium capacity commitment. GPT-5.5 pricing: $5/$30 per 1M input/output tokens with 1M context. For builders on AWS, you can now use GPT-5.5 with existing IAM, PrivateLink, and CloudTrail. No new security model. The mult...
The largest AI infrastructure deal in history: Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI ($15B initial + $35B conditional) to make AWS the exclusive third-party cloud for OpenAI Frontier — a platform for deploying teams of AI agents with shared context, built-in governance, and enterprise...
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