Can you run an AI datacenter campus on gas delivered by truck?
AIEllie Holbrook, who covers gas for the AI buildout at SemiAnalysis, told Bloomberg that it doesn't go far. (1/4)🧵
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AIEllie Holbrook, who covers gas for the AI buildout at SemiAnalysis, told Bloomberg that it doesn't go far. (1/4)🧵
AIKling AI will host a panel at LA Tech Week 2026 on October 14, 2026, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM in Santa Monica, with speakers from Kling AI, Oxen AI, and Obsidian Studio. The discussion will cover how AI video is moving from model capabilities and platform integration into enterprise workflows and professional content production, following the launch of Kling 4.0. Attendees can RSVP via the event link and stay for networking afterward.
AI…october 13 for cocktails and conversation, to kick off techcrunch disrupt. request your spot below!
AIHuawei's OceanStor M900 and Nvidia's CMX move reusable inference KV cache into a shared storage tier, but no agreed SSD specification exists for it. A storage executive said endurance requirements for one design rose from 3 to 9 drive writes per day and could change again. Industry sources expect convergence to take 6 to 12 months, with another year for development and validation.
AIPeter Thiel, Palantir and Founders Fund co-founder, argued in $100-per-ticket Nashville lectures that government attempts to regulate AI are evil, according to recordings obtained by Politico. He attacked former President Barack Obama and Pope Leo XIV over AI, and criticized effective altruism as a belief system that could form a one-world government to stop AI progress. The article notes Thiel's wealth is heavily invested in AI, including a $418 million AI-focused portfolio at Thiel Macro LLC.
AIHuawei launched the OceanStor M900 and Nvidia introduced CMX Context Memory Storage to manage inference KV Cache in tiered storage, reducing repeated computation on cache hits. Sources say SSD requirements for this workload are not standardized: some plans have moved from 3 DWPD to 9 DWPD, and the industry may need 6–12 months to reach a common product standard.
AIBASAL Intelligence (本溯智能), founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD graduate Li Jianxiong, has raised funding led by Fifth Source Capital, with Ivy Capital, Linear Capital and WestSummit Capital participating. The company is pursuing an action-native, in-context embodied foundation model that lets robots adapt to new scenes in minutes from a few human demonstrations and self-attempts, rather than retraining.
AIQi An Xin ranked first in China's network information security market with 4.39 billion yuan in revenue in 2025, according to a CCID Consulting report on a 93.08 billion yuan market. The company also led the endpoint security, security management platform, and security services segments, with a 17.5% endpoint share and 18.3% security management platform share.
AIAt the Apsara Conference, Alibaba's Qwen team outlined a roadmap of Qwen4 followed by Qwen4.5 and Qwen5, aiming for 5T to 10T parameters. The article notes that Qwen3.8 reached 2.4T parameters and that Qwen3.8-Flash activates 6B parameters per inference while cutting training cost to one-ninth. It also describes Qwen3.8-Max running model-driven experiments in chip design and inference optimization, and multimodal updates including a video model slated for November.
AIUS venture capital deal value reached a record $515.8 billion in the first nine months of 2026, driven largely by giant AI rounds for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Exit activity has not kept pace, with third-quarter exit value heavily dependent on SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock purchase of Anysphere, and IPOs remaining sparse.
AIA Financial Times report said OpenAI told prospective investors its annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion, below the $68 billion widely reported two months earlier. The gap was attributed to gross revenue including partner revenue in the earlier figure versus net revenue in the newer one. The Nasdaq fell 1.25% and Oracle dropped 5.5%, while OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for IPOs.
AIPresident Donald Trump is launching a new AI task force while balancing competing factions as he pursues American AI supremacy. The source text provided is brief and does not detail the task force's members, mandate, or policies.
AIThe FCC is considering loosening rules on political robocalls that use AI voices ahead of the midterms. Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller obtains prior consent.
AINASCAR says increased automation is helping it expand what it offers fans. The source provides no further details on specific tools, models, or figures.
AIA new poll finds 64% of Americans believe AI is developing "too fast." The source text provides no further details on the survey's methodology, sample, or other findings.
AIIMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged governments in big economies to tighten budgets as soaring bond yields raise borrowing costs. She said global debt-to-GDP ratios are at their highest since the Second World War and on course to reach 100% in coming years. She added that growth alone cannot ease the burden, and that central banks may need a prudently hawkish stance.
AIThe University of Birmingham has digitised and released more than 3,100 items from the unpublished papers of sociologist Stuart Hall, donated by his widow Catherine Hall, in an interactive database. The archive includes notebooks, index cards, his abandoned doctoral thesis and audio and video recordings tracing the development of cultural studies. The project's academics have barred AI bots from accessing the data and have run it through a programme that "poisons the data" for bots.
AITaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co reported September revenue of NT$511.86 billion ($16.03 billion), up 54.6% from a year earlier but down 0.6% from August. The company's third-quarter revenue was about NT$1.49 trillion, and it is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings next week.
AIRussia's Yandex suspended operations at its Sasovo, Ryazan data center after a drone strike caused a fire, and the company said some services may be unavailable. Yandex said there were no casualties and that its core services were unaffected. The attack comes as Ukraine has stepped up strikes on Russian infrastructure, though Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this one.
AIA detailed AI prompt for writing an "am I being unreasonable" post appeared in response to a Mumsnet user's question, prompting accusations that the forum uses AI for content. Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts said the prompt came from a system that sends drafts to OpenAI to suggest thread titles, called it an error on OpenAI's side, and said Mumsnet does not use AI to write threads or replies.
AINasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing assets such as Treasurys, equities and money market funds, along with the flow of money, could free up tens of billions of dollars in capital tied up as collateral across the global financial system. She said moving markets to 24/7 trading would require real-time risk and collateral management, with Nasdaq launching AI agents within its risk platform that initially provide recommendations. Friedman added that not every asset is liquid enough to support round-the-clock trading.
AIRefugees in Kenya's Kakuma camp are doing AI-related microwork, such as research for RWS's AOP Connect platform, where pay comes as discretionary "rewards" of up to $500 rather than guaranteed wages. Interviews with more than two dozen refugees found most earn far less than the maximum, and entry-level remote tech work is shrinking. Refugees who are unable to legally work in Kenya say they accept these gigs despite opaque pay criteria.
AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.
AIAutonomous vehicle companies in China see a large market opportunity in delivering goods after dark, according to the article. The article says that opportunity depends on overcoming technical challenges, but the source does not specify which challenges or report any deployments.
AIPresident Trump presented the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella and Michael Dell at a Washington summit called the Golden Age of American Innovation. Five of the six award recipients are immigrants, and Trump also received the National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, Dr John Trump, in 1983.
AIBaiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Cowboy Space, says the company is developing an energy grid in orbit. Its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, and the team is communicating with it daily.
AIOpen Haus Berlin lineup: → @RiqwanMThamir from @n8n_io → Harry Kim from @nvidia → @zainhas from Together AI good food, drinks, and better arguments about evals, inside a glowing digital art museum. Berlin, komm vorbei 👇🏻
AI…breakthroughs. And to fellow honorees Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin.
AIA 16-year-old hiker, Bryce Vincent Gowryluk, was rescued in British Columbia after route directions from the AI chatbot Claude led him to the base of the Widowmaker Arete, a climbing wall requiring ropes and cams. Rescuers said he was "far off" his intended route to Crown Mountain, and North Shore Rescue had to hoist two members down to lift him out. Search manager Paul Markey warned hikers not to rely blindly on AI for route planning.
AILettering artist Jessica Hische designed the M logo for Meta's new AI assistant Muse, a two-day freelance sprint she says paid about $12,500. She said she took the job to cover payroll for her Oakland shops, and the decision drew heavy criticism from fellow designers on Threads.
AIToday we're taking the next step by opening a global AI competition to discover new treatments. Introducing the Alzheimer’s Translation Challenge, led by @PrimaMente and @AlzData. 🧵
AIRobot Entertainment Kombat, founded by Cix Liv, hosted a September 18 San Francisco event where a human fought a remotely controlled robot and lost each match, leaving with a hand injury. The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist, saying the fights were unsanctioned and require approval before any bout involving a human. REK plans a robot deathmatch later this month with remotely controlled bots equipped with weapons.
AIA group of mathematicians led by Terence Tao has called for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released more than 700 AI-generated proof files at once. Tao and other Fields Medalists argue that mass-produced solutions undermine the discipline's focus on conceptual understanding, while Scott Aaronson contrasts this batch release with Anthropic's collaborative approach. The article reports that the internal model tested about 8,000 problems with roughly a five percent success rate.
AITrump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in Meta stock and up to $5 million in SpaceX senior unsecured notes. The filing, which reports trades in value ranges, shows total activity of roughly $74.3 million to $273.3 million according to a CNBC analysis. The SpaceX notes were bought two days before Trump signed a national space transportation policy, and the White House says the portfolio is independently managed.
AIAccording to investor materials cited in the post, OpenAI's annualized revenue was $50B at the end of September, up from $30B in July and below the $70B previously reported. The post also notes Anthropic was at $65B annualized at the end of July.
AIPresident Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence," instead of "Super Intelligence," to be "THE ENEMY." The article reports that Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos have adopted the "super intelligence" term, and that ai.gov was changed to read "SI" while si.gov appears dormant.