Asa Fitch and Annie Linskey of The Wall Street Journal tell their readers that the government's $8.5 billion dollar grant awarded to Intel is the largest yet to come from the $53 billion Chips Act. They write: The U.S. government is granting Intel up to $8.5 billion to help fund new chip plants in four states, the largest award yet in an effort to revive American chip-making overseen by the Biden administration. The money will go toward new factories and expansion projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon, the Commerce Department said. Intel’s total investment in U.S. projects in … [Read more...]
Blackwell Superchip: The Key to the Next Stage of AI
Jane Lanhee Lee of Bloomberg reports on why Nvidia believes its new Blackwell Chip is key to the next stage of AI. Lee writes: Nvidia Corp. unveiled its most powerful chip architecture at the annual GPU Technology Conference, dubbed Woodstock for AI by some analysts. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang took the stage to show off the new Blackwell computing platform, headlined by the B200 chip, a 208-billion-transistor powerhouse that exceeds the performance of Nvidia’s already class-leading AI accelerators. The chip promises to extend Nvidia’s lead on rivals at a time when major businesses … [Read more...]
Commercial Drone Delivery Heating Up
Liz Young of The Wall Street Journal tells her readers that the recent federal approvals have retailers ramping up tests, but hurdles to consumer acceptance remain. Young writes: Cassidy Shorland, a council member in Logan, Australia, wanted a refreshing treat on a hot day recently, but didn’t want to get in his car and leave the office. So Shorland opened a DoorDash delivery app, clicked on a mango-flavored juice from a nearby smoothie chain, then walked outside as a big white-and-yellow drone came into view and lowered a tethered box holding his juice. Shorland, 47, is one of the … [Read more...]
Struggling to Keep Up With Power Hungry Data Centers
Evan Halper of The Washington Post reports America is running out of power. The aging power grid, after a decade absent of upgrades, is scrambling amid soaring demand from electricity-hungry data centers. Halper writes: Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid. In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity … [Read more...]
Digital Gold Rush: AI Needs Power and Data Centers
Joy Wiltermuth at Morningstar tells her readers that AI is fueling a gold rush in new data centers, the hottest buildings in real estate. Wiltermuth writes: Forget glitzy skylines, the new bright spot in commercial real estate is workforce housing for computers that can whirl data into artificial intelligence. The latest hot spots in commercial real estate aren't in Manhattan or Miami. Instead of snazzy hotels or glistening office towers, the new property darlings are power-hungry data centers, often in places like Northern Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; and Salt Lake City. Traditionally … [Read more...]
The Push for Combined Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Camilla Hodgson or the Financial Times tells her readers that the head of an ecommerce giant's $1bn innovation fund is vowing to increase deals aimed at automating retail networks. She writes: Amazon’s $1bn industrial innovation fund is to step up investments in companies that combine artificial intelligence and robotics, as the ecommerce giant seeks to drive efficiencies across its logistics network. Franziska Bossart, head of the corporate venture capital arm that was set up in 2022, told the Financial Times that “generative AI holds a lot of promise for robotics and automation” and is an … [Read more...]
Can $7 Trillion End AI Chip Scarcity?
In the rush to develop artificial intelligence, the advanced computer chips best suited to powering the machine learning technologies are becoming expensive and scarce compared to demand. The co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has a plan to use $5 trillion to $7 trillion in investor money to build enough capacity to revolutionize the world's chip-building market. At Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses Altman's plans, writing: In the fast-paced world of technological innovation, few figures loom as large as Sam Altman, the chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI. Altman's recent … [Read more...]
Apple Ends Its EV Effort
After spending ten years on developing an electric vehicle, Apple has called it quits. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports: Apple Inc. is canceling a decadelong effort to build an electric car, according to people with knowledge of the matter, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company. Apple made the disclosure internally Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees working on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the announcement wasn’t public. The decision was shared by Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a … [Read more...]
Video: How AI Is Transforming Air-Traffic-Control Towers
Hidden in the base of Heathrow's control tower lies a development lab where high-definition cameras and machine learning algorithms are beginning to redefine how air traffic controllers operate and whether there needs to be a tower at all. WSJ's George Downs explores. Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street Journal … [Read more...]
Here Comes the AR Revolution in Retail
Arick Wierson of The Robin Report tells readers the AR revolution in retail is (almost) here. Wierson writes: Augmented Reality (AR) is emerging as a game-changing technology in the retail sector with the promise of revolutionizing the way consumers interact with brands and products. AR technology empowers the user to see his or her real-world environment overlaid with valuable digital data. Although some estimates predict that as many as 1.73 billion consumers will be using AR in some way by 2024, we think this number is either grossly overly aggressive or using a … [Read more...]
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