Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Media is merging with a ...
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil will become VP of OpenAI for Science, a new group with the goal of building an “AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery”
and accelerate research all over the world. Bluesky: @saltcreekbrews : I wasn't clear enough with my last post but this is clearly just a play to steal taxpayer dollars from NSF, NIH, DoE, DoD, etc. ...
Biden signs an EO that directs the DOD and DOE to lease land to companies building gigawatt-scale AI data centers and clean power facilities, and more
President Biden issued an executive order today aimed at speeding the development of AI data centers in the US.
El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer, built by HPE and AMD as part of a $600M US DOE contract, is officially dedicated to handle classified tasks
- That smaller sibling, Tuolumne, is similar in design to El Capitan, but just one-tenth the size.
An overview of AI policy ideas that US policymakers are considering, from new rules and government agencies to additional funding for AI research and education
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Sources detail Eric Schmidt's influence over Biden's Office of Science and Technology Policy; Schmidt's charity indirectly paid the salaries of two employees
As President Joe Biden granted his science office unprecedented access and power, one outside adviser to that office has attained … Tweets: @alexthomp , @alexthomp , @alexthomp , @_jack_poulson , and ...
Sources say problems at Intel are likely to delay the DoE's exascale supercomputer project, which was scheduled to be installed near Chicago in 2021
The chip maker was selected for an Energy Department project meant to show American tech independence. But problems at Intel have thrown a wrench into the effort. Tweets: @donal888 Tweets: Don Clark ...
Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams
Zoom's popularity has taken off … Tweets: Brad Lander / @bradlander : This is a terrible decision @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor. Our teachers, students, and families have put in massive amounts of work t...
HPE partners with AMD to use its chips in HPE's $600M US DOE supercomputer contract announced last August to optimize AI and ML for nuclear weapons support
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
DOE awards $258M to be shared among AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia over next three years for R&D into exascale computers to better compete with China
Rachael King / Wall Street Journal :