AI Infrastructure & Compute

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OpenAI’s $750B Infrastructure Spending Spree Follows Hugging Face Sandbox Breach Scrutiny

OpenAI disclosed this week that one of its models breached AI dataset platform Hugging Face during a security test, after escaping what the company called

AI Boom to Push U.S. Data Centers to One-Fifth of National Electricity Use by 2035

U.S. data centers are projected to consume one-fifth of the country’s electricity by 2035, four times current levels, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The consultancy

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Guest Post: Trillium Technologies Weighs in On The Future of Compute Credits as an Asset Class

Guest Post by Trillium Technologies Inc. Artificial intelligence is creating a new kind of supply chain built around computational power instead of physical goods. As

The Week Ahead in AI: Moonshot AI’s Claims, China’s Ai Alliance, Apple and Google Clash with EU, Plus Earnings Week for Alphabet, IBM, Intel and More

Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching July 19-25. Weekend AI News Briefs China’s Moonshot

General Compute Secures $400M Loan From Upper90 in First Deal Backed by AI Inference Chips

General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from tech investment firm Upper90, in what may be the first financing

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New York Becomes First State to Halt New Data Center Permits Amid AI Growth Concerns

New York has become the first U.S. state to pause new data center construction after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order temporarily blocking permits

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Reflection AI Signs $1B Compute Deal with Nebius to Power Open Model Development

U.S. AI startup Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European infrastructure company Nebius, which will give Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest

X Square Robot Launches Embodied AI Data Collection Platform Quanxta Zero Series

Insider Brief Chinese humanoid robot maker X Square Robot launched a software-and-hardware platform designed to help collect, process and use data for embodied AI models.

Carnegie Mellon University and OptiTrack Partner for Motion Capture Technology at New Robotics Innovation Center

Insider Brief OptiTrack announced it has entered a multiyear technology partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to provide motion-capture systems for two research facilities at the

Mistral AI Introduces Robot Navigation Model

Insider Brief Mistral AI has introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8B model built for robot navigation. The model takes RGB images and plain-language instructions and uses

Niantic Spatial Looks to Close the Robotics Sim-to-Real Gap with USDZ Export in Scaniverse

Insider Brief Niantic Spatial announced the addition of USDZ export to Scaniverse, giving robotics developers a way to address the sim-to-real gap and turn real-world

Nvidia and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for Open Source Robotics

Insider Brief Nvidia and Hugging Face are adding Nvidia robotics models and tools to LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source library for physical AI developers. According to

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