Meta’s 5-gigawatt “Hyperion” data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026. Meta The popular narrative that artificial intelligence is the engine that keeps the U.S. economy alive appears exaggerated, according to recent analyses. The AI boom has reshaped stock market valuations, driven large investments and record bond issuances to finance data centers,…
Investment from hyperscalers is increasing, vacancies have all but disappeared and AI is pushing demand for data centers well beyond traditional hubs – but questions remain about power, people and long-term returns as development ripples through secondary and tertiary markets. In summary, what you need to know: Mega construction – Hyperscalers’ spending on AI infrastructure…
De nombreux signes indiquent que l’industrie technologique, très importante à San Francisco, est en plein essor. La City est devenue le centre du boom de l’intelligence artificielle, accueillant les deux startups les plus valorisées du secteur et de nombreuses autres petites entreprises financées par du capital-risque. Des quantités record de capital-risque affluent. Les locations effectuées…
Ed. note: This article was first published in an ILTA publication. Artificial intelligence is much more than the latest new tool to hit lawyers’ desks. This era seems different from previous technological waves. Just as the Internet started as a novelty and grew into critical infrastructure, today AI is leading us toward another platform shift….
The astonishingly prodigious child of bohemian parents, Hassabis grew up in North London in the 1980s. And through the city haze, every now and again, Hassabis could see one constellation—Orion, named for Greek mythology’s formidable hunter and for centuries a guide to sailors and farmers. Some 40 years later, it remains Hassabis’s favorite constellation, in…
MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…
Contracts for acquiring AI in the era of rapid adoption See the speakers Organizations and government agencies are acquiring AI at unprecedented speed, often faster than legal, procurement and governance frameworks can adapt. Standard software contracts are pushed beyond their limits, exposing buyers to unclear ownership of outcomes, weak data rights, opaque model behavior, regulatory…
This addition brings the perspective of the cloud ecosystem and enterprise AI implementation to the board, advising Qlik on practical and responsible adoption of AI. PHILADELPHIA, January 21, 2026–(BUSINESS FEED)–Qlik®a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that Mark Relph, Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has joined…
A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…
Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…