Institutional Investor

The Insatiable Search for Compute Power Could Drive Another Commodity Boom

Commodities could make a comeback in institutional portfolios over the next five years as more money flows into artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, with some investors arguing the asset ...
Crypto Briefing

OK Computer Power ETF files third application for compute futures that don’t exist yet

Wall Street has a habit of building the financial plumbing before the water is even turned on. The OK Computer Power ETF just became the third fund to file for an ETF centered on compute futures, a ...
New York Post

Georgia residents stand to lose everything as homes seized by private company in $16B data center plan to power AI

A utility giant with a $16 billion expansion plan is using eminent domain to seize hundreds of Georgia properties — and furious owners say they never had a fighting chance. Ansley Brown was 5 years ...
The Verge

Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers

The financial details were included in SpaceX’s recently released IPO filing. It includes a clause in which either company can terminate the deal within 90 days. The financial details were included in ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute

Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts’ worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, ...
The Next Web

ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity

ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is partnering with index provider Ornn to launch cash-settled futures contracts tied to GPU computing costs. The move comes days after rival CME Group ...
11Alive

Coweta County family fighting Georgia Power over home; power company using eminent domain

A Coweta County homeowner said Georgia Power is attempting to take her family's property through eminent domain to support a major data center project in neighboring Fayette County. Ansley Brown said ...
SiliconANGLE

Recursive Superintelligence raises $650M to build self-improving AI models

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with $650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led ...
IEEE

A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Power Transformer Failures Using Internet of Things-Based Monitoring and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: Power transformers are critical components in ensuring the continuous and stable operation of power systems. Failures in these units can lead to significant power outages and costly downtime ...
IEEE

Characterizing Compute-Communication Overlap in GPU-Accelerated Distributed Deep Learning: Performance and Power Implications

Abstract: This paper characterizes the interplay between overlapping compute and communication in GPU-accelerated distributed training, a critical but often overlooked aspect impacting performance and ...
The New York Times

Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San ...