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Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim

DataVita has revised plan for Chapelhall development to be wholly powered by 1GW of renewable energy A datacentre company that said it would power a massive AI development near Glasgow with renewable energy has admitted that the scheme will be entirely served by the National Grid. DataVita, a key plank of the UK’s AI strategy, had promised that the Lanarkshire project would draw 1GW – the equivalent output of a small nuclear reactor, or Britain’s largest windfarm – from green sources. But when the Guardian raised questions about the pledge , it said the arrangement was “subject to final commercial agreements, planning, grid and consenting processes”. Continue reading...

The Guardian · 6h ago
Jobs Boom Meets AI Market Turmoil

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." A blowout jobs report fuels expectations for another Fed rate hike, even as Wall Street reels from a nearly $4 trillion tech selloff and mounting questions about the AI trade. Plus, Anthropic's IPO prospects and valuation reset, BlackRock CIO Rick Rieder explains the AI unwind and emerging credit opportunities, Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, discusses inflation and Fed policy, and Greg Ebel, CEO of Enbridge Energy, weighs in on the growing energy demands of AI infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg · 22h ago
Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses

Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy activity on the White […]

The Verge · 22h ago
Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobs

While there’s no evidence linking AI to mass layoffs, the tech has already ‘changed worker psychology’ When artificial intelligence researcher Mrinank Sharma quit his job at Anthropic earlier this year, the news rippled across the internet. In his resignation letter, posted on X and viewed 15.3m times, Sharma warned of a world “in peril” from the technology he had helped build. “It is clear to me the time has come to move on,” he wrote. His next move: a poetry degree. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Nov 6
Knives Are Out in the White House

From top officials like Pete Hegseth to White House aides to right-wing pundits, the race is on to find someone besides Donald Trump to blame for the Republican's catastrophic losses.

Wired · Nov 4
You can’t hit a wrong note when playing along with songs on Casio’s new keyboard

Casio announced a new addition to its Casiotone line of portable electronic keyboards with a feature that could help aspiring musicians master skills like rhythm and timing without the frustrations or discouragement of hitting the wrong note. The Casiotone CT-FS1 is available now for $399.99 in a monochromatic black or white version where even the […]

The Verge · Nov 3
OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about "compute campuses"? Those sound lovely, right? OpenAI seems to be gambling that a quiet rebrand could be all it takes to defuse the growing […]

The Verge · Nov 3
Oracle Is Near $10 Billion Share Sale at 11% Discount

Oracle Corp. is poised to price the sale of $10 billion in shares at an 11% discount, according to people familiar with the matter, after the company’s stock price was dinged in a choppy session to start the week.

Bloomberg · Nov 3
‘Elonville’: US residents say Musk’s xAI offered to buy homes if they don’t sue over datacenter noise

Several Mississippi homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400 People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – to sell their houses to his company and make way. Real estate agents have been going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of xAI, touting a deal to purchase houses as long as the owners agree to not join a lawsuit against the company over the power plant’s noise. (Musk’s AI company officially became SpaceXAI in July and has lately been rebranded as SpaceXSI but to neighbors of the datacenter in Mississippi, it remains xAI.) Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 28
Screens crack on Apple’s new foldable iPhone

The iPhone Duo went on sale less than a week ago, but some users are already reporting cracks and bright lines across the inner display near the hinge. NBC News’ Brian Cheung reports.

NBC News · Oct 27
Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company

Anthropic claims AI will shift how work gets done and labor demand – but some experts are skeptical of the vision Last year, the Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and that in six months it would be writing 90% of code . Neither of those predictions came to pass. Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new “bottleneck” as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 23