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The data center boom is accelerating.A Business Insider analysis of US data center permits reveals a staggering escalation in data center power use. Data centers across the US are growing in number and in size. If all data centers permitted through 2025 come online, they will use between 224.3 terawatt-hours and 358.8 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, an increase of 50% over the previous year across the range, Business Insider’s analysis found.At the midpoint, that’s more than all the electricity used by any one US state in 2024, except Texas.The vast majority of this power use is driven by hyperscale data…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luis Noguera, whose father is selling a luxury home in Miami and accepting shares in Anthropic, OpenAI, or SpaceX as payment. It has been edited for length and clarity.My father owns a modern waterfront home in South Florida that’s currently on the market. Most sellers are hoping for cash offers or conventional financing.We’re open to something different.If the right buyer came along and wanted to use shares in OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX as part of the deal, we’d seriously consider it.A mix of cash and private-company stock would probably make the…
OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and other content sources. Among other things, Lockdown Mode will disable live web browsing (so you can only access cached content), the retrieval and display of images from the web (you can still generate images), deep research, and agent mode. The company says that even with Lockdown Mode turned on, ChatGPT could still be vulnerable to prompt injections — which could, for example, “appear in cached web content or in an uploaded file, and could still…
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, approaches, the excitement is building around what Apple has in store for us this year. From Siri’s overhaul to new Apple Intelligence updates, there’s a lot to look forward to. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. For those eager to tune in, the event will be streamed live via the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website, and the Apple Developer YouTube channel. Siri’s big AI makeover The most anticipated announcement is a major AI upgrade to Siri, transforming it into a more conversational assistant capable of…
Former tech executive and VC Sriram Krishnan is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June. “It is hard to express how big a privilege it has been to serve the American people and how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do so,” Krishnan said in a post on X. “First and foremost, it has been an honor to serve under President [Donald Trump]. Without his leadership, we would not be leading in the AI race.” Krishnan, who’s been serving as a senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence at the White House, was one of a…
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he’s spoken to AI companies about striking deals “where the American people can benefit from the success of AI.” Trump does not seem to have mentioned specific companies in his comments, but OpenAI is a likely candidate, especially after CNBC reported that the Trump administration has indeed been discussing an equity stake with the AI company. CNBC said some of that equity could be used to seed a “Public Wealth Fund” recently proposed by OpenAI. As outlined by the company, proceeds from the fund “could be distributed directly to citizens, allowing more people…
Let’s say you’ve got a 2013 Jeep Wrangler you want to sell. It’s a great car — low mileage, good condition, and a custom-lifted suspension. But there’s a lot of Jeep Wranglers out there on Facebook Marketplace — how do you make your listing stand out?For Rogelio Llamas, it was a little sex appeal that was missing. He added an image of a woman in a bikini top, denim shorts, and cowboy boots leaning on the hood of his Wrangler. Now there’s a way to draw eyeballs. Just one thing: The woman wasn’t real. Llamas generated her with AI.Llamas, who’s…
On a May evening, a calendar invite titled “Project Sandbox Kickoff” popped up in the inbox of some AI training contractors who worked for Uber.It was a surprise for some of them, since they hadn’t heard from the company in months.”I thought, ‘This is the job I had heard back about in December, and now they’re finally getting back to me,'” one of the contractors told Business Insider. He had been approved to start working for Uber in December, but hadn’t received work since then.For years, Uber delivered passengers and burritos using drivers who are independent contractors. Now, Uber is…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp isn’t buying into the “tokenmaxxing” hype.Never one to mince words, Karp compared the urge to use AI in such an insatiable manner to watching pornography.”Really, we call it the demastibatory, like get off masturbation thing internally,” Karp said, describing Palantir’s token tracking during a live interview on TBPN on the sidelines of Palantir’s AIP Con 10. “Sure, it’s like people are just sitting there all day kind of like a porn addiction.”Karp’s comments echo what Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar told analysts on an earnings call last month about how the data analysis and technology firm calls…
The future of aviation isn’t a sleek jet — it’s a tiny whale-shaped airplane that could turn The Jetsons fantasy of aerial commuting into reality.Vermont-based startup Beta Technologies aims to convince US consumers that electric aviation has arrived in ways that will change how they travel for work and leisure, and invited media to ride in the state-of-the-art all-electric aircraft that it calls the Alia CX300.For 20 minutes, we zipped above Burlington at over 100 miles per hour as test pilot Chris “Pooter” Caputo showed us how it banks, glides, and manages energy. The ride was smooth, quiet, and surprisingly…