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Nvidia’s AI ambitions are officially out of this world this year, and they haven’t come back down to Earth.The AI chip giant is adding to the team behind Space-1, its first computing system designed for space. In recent weeks, the chip giant posted a second job tied to orbital data centers.The role — for a system software principal architect — will help build software for Space-1, which the chip giant unveiled at its GTC event in March.Space data centers have emerged as a potential way to get around growing constraints on land, power, and cooling on Earth. Companies like SpaceX…
Token leaderboards have a right idea, wrong execution problem, says the CEO of one red-hot AI coding startup.On an episode of the “Founders” podcast released on Sunday, Cognition’s Scott Wu said there are better ways to incentivize employees to use AI.”It is directionally correct, but I think there are definitely some places where people have gotten carried away,” Wu said. “People are like, ‘We rank our engineers by how many tokens they’re spending.’ Well, let’s try and rank people by how much output they’re actually producing.”Cognition was founded in 2023 by Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan and is best…
Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level. Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.” Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, “Mistakenly we thought that by…
Micron, the Boise, Idaho-based memory chip maker, has captured Wall Street’s heart. Whether the love affair endures will heavily depend on how long the AI-driven supply crunch for memory chips lasts. Micron promises that it has shored up its position for the long term, which would allow it to withstand a sudden drop in demand or overcapacity of supply. And Wall Street has become a believer, helping Micron briefly surpass the market valuation of Meta and Tesla for the first time on Thursday, though it floated back down by Friday to nearly match them. Specifically Micron closed Friday’s trading with…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former account executive at Google based in the Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I earned nearly $1 million last year as an account executive at Google, but I felt some “FOMO” around the AI boom.I think most people at Google would tell you the same if they were being candid.Google pays very well, but the equity packages at OpenAI and Anthropic are in a different universe. A three- or four-year stock grant at one of these companies can be life-changing money.That math was part…
You will see him on Fox News or CNN, wearing flip-flops, pajama pants, and a blazer. On his lips: data centers.Kevin O’Leary has taken to preaching the gospel of data centers with the conviction of a cable-televangelist.”We’re in a global competition, an economic competition, a military competition, and certainly a technological competition,” O’Leary told Business Insider earlier this month. “We’ve got to keep our chops because we have led the world in this economy for 250 years.”O’Leary, the Canadian software entrepreneur turned TV personality, began investing in data centers two years ago. Since then, the facilities that hold AI infrastructure…
What do you give the AI engineer who has everything? Maybe the freedom to do whatever they want.While the AI talent wars have been defined by multimillion-dollar pay packages and multibillion-dollar acquihires, Jason Lemkin, a venture capitalist sometimes known as the “Godfather of Saas,” says money isn’t everything.Lemkin said on a recent episode of the “20VC” podcast that the companies trying to win over top researchers should offer something just as valuable: The ability to work on the problems they care about with fewer constraints.”When I talk to folks at the bleeding edge of AI, that’s just so appealing,” Lemkin…
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers. Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of Softbank, argued at a recent shareholder meeting that building data centers in space won’t do much to cut costs and will take too long when “in the battle for AI, the next few years will be far more important than what might happen a decade or so from now.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Son’s remarks as part of a broader discussion that included OpenAI’s plans for custom chips, chipmaker Groq’s new…
A proposed data center next to the Nashville Zoo is drawing pushback from local community members, including 14-time Country Music Award winner Brad Paisley.Paisley called the proposed data center — backed by DC Blox, a digital infrastructure company — a “monstrosity” in an Instagram video on Friday. He compared the development, which he said was unfolding without the permission of residents, to AI stealing intellectual property from musicians.”It’s without the blessing of those who are going to be affected by it,” Paisley said. “Look, Nashville, we have to fight this. We have to set a precedent, because if we can…
Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Meade also reportedly led the development of the AI-powered smart glasses that Apple plans to launch next year. The costly Vision Pro was not a hit, but Apple is hoping that more affordable smart glasses will help it compete with wearable devices from Meta. Gurman frames this departure as a byproduct of John Ternus’ imminent elevation to Apple CEO, and of Ternus’ decision to shake up the hardware engineering team, which left some…