Bring Your Own Power
Israel just froze every new server-farm connection after requests hit 27 gigawatts, three times its record demand. A $3.4 billion Spanish campus answered the same squeeze by planning to build its own power plant and skip the grid entirely. The scarce thing in AI is no longer the chip. It is a live wire, and developers have stopped waiting for one.
Read full story →Four Reactors by the Fourth of July
To feed AI's power hunger, the U.S. Energy Department hit a self-imposed nuclear deadline, beating it by one reactor. It got there by routing around the independent regulator and cutting more than 750 pages of its own safety rules. Industry says testing is how safety is learned; critics say bending rules is how accidents are. Both may be right.
Read full story →A $1 Million Bet That AI Can Run the Whole Company
While everyone else builds AI that drafts emails, Skyfall wants to buy a real business and hand the CEO's chair to a machine, in public. Its founders, who once sold their lab to Microsoft, argue that scaling today's models will never run an enterprise, and they have a benchmark to prove it. The promise worth watching: a demo designed so it can visibly lose.
Read full story →The Great AI Pivot
Tome reached 25 million users and raised $80 million, then walked away from the product entirely. It is not alone: Pika, Poolside, Character AI, Patronus and Wispr all abandoned what they raised money to build. When a company can raise nine figures on a prototype and still reinvent itself within two years, the app layer starts to look like ground the model labs keep repaving.
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