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30.08.26 - 22:21
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"Profound Game-Changer": Musk Launching New Turbine Blade Factory To Solve Shortage Threatening AI Boom (ZeroHedge)
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"Profound Game-Changer": Musk Launching New Turbine Blade Factory To Solve Shortage Threatening AI Boom
SpaceX is making an aggressive push into the power generation market, with The Information reporting that Elon Musk is preparing to address one of the most critical bottlenecks threatening America's data-center buildout: the shortage of advanced gas turbine components, particularly the blades and vanes needed to power massive data center campuses.
SpaceX is laying the groundwork for a new factory in Bastrop, Texas, that would manufacture high-temperature blades and vanes for industrial gas turbines. The move could allow Musk to circumvent the severe turbine blade shortage that has pushed availability toward 2030.
On X, Musk responded to the report, saying, "The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades & vanes. By doing in-house casting at SpaceX, we can accelerate nat gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, which is a profound game-change...
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30.08.26 - 22:21
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AI′s China Syndrome: Who Will Control The World′s Newest Energy? (ZeroHedge)
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AI's China Syndrome: Who Will Control The World's Newest Energy?
Authored by J.T. Young via Substack,
Ceding leadership in AI to China's Chinese Communist Party (CCP), what could go wrong?
Just about everything. Yet that is precisely what some here in the U.S.-and all in Beijing-want to occur.
America is currently being swept by misguided attempts to curtail AI's development and the development of the data centers on which AI's development will depend. Some of these stem from legitimate concerns (though often inaccurate) about what AI can and will do. Some stem from concerns about what data center development will mean for their communities. [The answer is jobs, investment, and growth-something that West Virginia's governor Pat Morrisey and statehouse leaders presciently see as they pitch their state for just such responsible development.]
However, some of this opposition also stems from foreign influence from those who would love nothing more than to see America not be the leader in a t...
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30.08.26 - 19:00
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AI′s worst disasters will arrive unannounced | Letters (The Guardian)
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Dr Simon Nieder on the global efforts needed to curb the threats posed by AI. Plus letters from Dr Anthony Harris and David KylerTimothy Garton Ash is right that serious artificial intelligence risks demand international action, but “AI Hiroshima” may be the wrong picture (Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not, 22 August). Hiroshima was not technology going rogue. Human beings designed the bomb, authorised its use and dropped it. The technology worked much as intended.AI may one day behave in ways we cannot control, but many of the gravest harms could happen without any dramatic moment when “the AI takes over”. AI might help design a pathogen, find a vulnerability in critical infrastructure or improve a weapons system while people still decide what happens next. Other harms may build almost invisibly through thousands of ordinary decisions – more autonomy here, one safeguard removed there, another consequential task handed...
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30.08.26 - 16:18
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G20 Faces Divide Over Debt, AI and Global Growth (Bloomberg)
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G20 finance officials are gathering in North Carolina with sovereign debt, global imbalances and economic growth in focus, but CSIS Director of Economics Program Philip Luck joins Bloomberg This Weekend and says the US and its partners increasingly disagree over both the problems and how to address them. A separate technology meeting will bring Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman into discussions over AI and emerging technologies as Washington pushes for a lighter regulatory framework. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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30.08.26 - 16:18
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Big business has shown small firms what to do – and what not to do – with AI | Gene Marks (The Guardian)
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Small business owners have watched large companies fumble – and sometimes succeed – with AI, and then use what worksOne thing I've learned about corporate America is that what it succeeds at ultimately trickles down to benefit small businesses. Bleeding-edge technologies such as the internet, mobile transactions and the cloud were first perfected by large organizations – government and corporations – and now they're available to the masses at a much lower cost and with better reliability.The good news is that it's also the same for what they fail at. Continue reading......
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30.08.26 - 14:48
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Siemens-Chef warnt vor zu viel Regulierung bei KI (DPA-AFX)
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BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - Siemens-Konzernchef Roland Busch fordert die EU zu einem höheren Tempo bei der Zulassung neuer KI-Technologien auf. "Wir dürfen das Entwicklungstempo der KI-Technologie nicht durch Regulierung bremsen", ......
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30.08.26 - 10:00
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Not a token effort: beer meets artificial intelligence at bar in China′s capital (SCMP)
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Drinks, music, vibes … what else can a bar offer to attract customers? One in China's capital, Beijing, is betting on unlimited access to artificial intelligence models.
The AGI Bar in the Zhongguancun tech hub, known as China's Silicon Valley, was packed with laptop-using customers on a recent night. One of the first things many did after ordering a drink was to connect to the in-house Wi-fi and configure an AI agent to access the free tokens the bar provides.
Manager Yang Yuan said the bar,......
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