Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain
 Startup plans to put nuclear-powered data centers in the sea — modular units could be much faster to deploy, but questions about reliability and longevity remain

Atomarine wants to put data centers on modular barges for ocean-based deployments. The firm says these can be powered by LNG-powered ships and seamlessly swap to ship-based SMRs when they become available.

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Shanghai Aishengna named as the maker of China’s first domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools — first viable domestic 7nm-capable scanner to be completed by 2038

Aishengna has been named by a single source who declined to be named, and its shareholders, SMEE, and Yuliangsheng didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —’catastrophically expensive’ coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics
 Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget —’catastrophically expensive’ coding blunders discovered in internal Amazon AI usage metrics

An internal presentation revealed that a failed AI deployment cost Amazon $1.8 million, while a couple of other projects resulted in hundreds of thousands of extra AI expense. What’s worse is that the issue went undetected for several months.

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Google could build more AI accelerators than Nvidia sells in 2028, analyst claims — could push the company to use Intel Foundry to meet its goals
 Google could build more AI accelerators than Nvidia sells in 2028, analyst claims — could push the company to use Intel Foundry to meet its goals

Google eyes to build more TPU AI accelerators in 2028 than Nvidia, if a report by Fubon Research is correct.

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Foreign-made robot vacuums caught up in FCC robot ban — covers any ground robot over 4.4 pounds with a 200 kbps connection

The FCC has added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List.

Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs ‘Rook’ cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveries

A minimum-energy ballistic arc covering 750 km needs roughly 2.64 km/s at burnout and peaks near 181 km.

30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’
 30 Georgia homes are being acquired via sale or eminent domain to expand power grid — one affected family member says it’s ‘for the data centers’

Georgia’s largest power supply company is reclaiming 30 homes that lay in the path of its power line expansion project through sale or eminent domain. The company says the project is not for a data center, but the substation the line is connecting to sits less than five miles from a massive data center.

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Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargo

AI and software research firm looking for a real-life pirate — extremely remote lob listing requires nautical and diving experience

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Pennsylvania town lists 43 specific demands to approve new AI data center project — developer calls local demands ‘too difficult’ as council slams response as ‘approval by tantrum’

One township in Pennsylvania gave a specific list of demands for a data center developer to follow if they want to build their project in the area. Instead, they retracted their initial application and sent in a second one challenging the regulations.

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Nvidia employee implicated in escalating AI GPU smuggling scandal, but demand only intensifies for Nvidia hardware

An Nvidia employee has been implicated in the AI GPU smuggling scandal, with his home and desk searched. He’s been detained over allegations of forgery and breach of trust. Meanwhile, Nvidia is collapsing its buyer list in order to root out potential smuggling chains.