De grote afwezige tijdens een hoorzitting van het Europees Parlement over AI-bedrijf Anthropic, vanwege grote zorgen over zijn model Mythos, was Anthropic zelf. Europa kan het AI-model niet zelf testen.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world's oceans -- a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and speed up deployments of wave-riding "nodes" designed to generate electrical power, according to a May 4 press release. Instead of sending renewable energy to a land-based data center, the floating nodes would directly power onboard AI chips and transmit inference tokens representing the AI models' outputs to customers worldwide via satellite link.

Each node resembles a huge steel sphere bobbing on the water with a tube-like structure extending vertically down beneath the surface. The wave motions drive water upward through the tube into a pressurized reservoir, where it can be released to spin a turbine generator that produces renewable energy for the AI chips on board. Panthalassa claims the node's AI chips would also get cooled using the surrounding water, which could offer another advantage over traditional data centers. "Ocean-based compute might offer a massive cooling advantage because the ambient temperature is so low," Lee said. "Land-based data centers use a lot of electricity and fresh water for cooling."

The newest node prototype, called Ocean-3, is scheduled for testing in the northern Pacific Ocean later in 2026. The latest version reaches about 85 meters in length and would stand nearly as tall as London's Big Ben or New York City's Flatiron Building, according to the Financial Times. Panthalassa has already tested several earlier prototypes of the wave energy converter technology, including the Ocean-1 in 2021 and the Ocean-2 that underwent a three-week sea trial off the coast of Washington state in February 2024. The company's CEO and co-founder, Garth Sheldon-Coulson, said in a CBS interview that he hopes to eventually deploy thousands of the nodes.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX hopes to plow as much as $119 billion into the southeast Texas countryside to build a massive semiconductor fab to produce chips for orbital AI datacenters. We won't hold our breath. The harebrained scheme is part of Elon Musk’s recently announced Terafab project, which seeks to boost global semiconductor production by 50x. After all, how else is he supposed to lob a terawatt of compute a year into orbit? In a recent public filing, SpaceX described the project as a “multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility.” The facility would be located roughly 80 miles northeast of Houston near the Gibbons Creek Reservoir. The first phase of this project is expected to cost around $55 billion, or about 1.25 Twitters. For reference, Intel’s leading-edge fab expansion in Chandler, Arizona cost roughly $30 billion, but that facility pales in comparison to Musk’s ambitions. In addition to silicon used for compute, Musk claims Terafab will have all the equipment necessary to produce chips of any kind, and that includes memory. “In a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design,” Musk boasted in a March presentation. That’s an ambitious plan from a man who has never run a fab before. SpaceX, which now includes Musk’s AI startup xAI and by extension the shriveled husk of the once great social network Twitter, knows an awful lot about building launch vehicles, satellites, bit barns, and web-scale applications. But last time we checked, the companies have zero semiconductor manufacturing experience. This knowledge gap doesn’t seem to have Musk all that worried, seeing as last month American foundry partner Intel just signed on to help out with the project. During Tesla’s most recent earnings call, the CEO revealed his Terafab manufacturing venture would produce chips based on Intel’s yet unfinished 14A process node. These chips will include homegrown AI accelerators - an area where Tesla, also part of the Terafab project, does have some experience, unlike chip manufacturing. Tesla has developed several generations of custom silicon to power its electric vehicles, as well as its fully custom Dojo supercomputing platform. So at least that bit is plausible. Of course, demand for these chips is predicated entirely on SpaceX’s Starship bringing down the cost to orbit to a level where orbital datacenters are economically viable, which still hasn’t happened yet. But seeing as it takes three to five years to bring a new fab online, SpaceX still has time to make its first truly reusable rocket… well, reusable. Musk has a history of making big promises and then not delivering on them. You might remember him promising to cut $2 trillion and then $1 trillion from government spending via DOGE, but only managing to cut about $150 billion or 2.2 percent. He has also predicted that SpaceX would send a rocket to Mars by 2024 and that Tesla would have a million robotaxis on the road by 2020. In the meantime, the Grimes County Court of Commissioners will consider whether to grant Musk’s Terafab project a property tax abatement during a meeting at 9 am on June 3. ®

LAS PALMAS (ANP/AFP) - Het vliegtuig dat meewerkt aan de evacuatie van vermoedelijke hantapatiënten dat een tussenlanding moest maken op Gran Canaria kampt met technische problemen. Spaanse media melden op basis van regeringsbronnen dat een van de systemen aan boord niet goed bleek te werken. Het ministerie zegt tegen persbureau AFP dat er zelfs een nieuw vliegtuig nodig is voor het transport.

Twee vliegtuigen vertrokken met drie evacués vanuit Kaapverdië. Een van de twee vliegtuigen is inmiddels aangekomen op Schiphol. De ander moest uitwijken naar Gran Canaria om bij te tanken. Daarna bleek dat er ook problemen waren met een van de medische systemen, schrijft de krant El País op basis van bronnen bij het Spaanse ministerie van Volksgezondheid.

Het ministerie zegt tegen AFP dat het vliegtuig is aangesloten op de stroomvoorziening van de luchthaven in afwachting van een ander vliegtuig om de reis voort te zetten.

Authorities allege that Omer Ziv and an unnamed air force major used classified information to bet on the timing of military operations on Polymarket

Since users of the leading prediction market Polymarket have been able to wager on the outcomes of war, fears have been raised that those betting on bombs falling from the sky may be privy to non-public information about military strikes. There has been much reported about suspicions of insider trading on war, but who exactly is believed to be placing these bets has remained unclear.

In February, Israeli authorities charged two suspects with committing security offences, bribery and obstruction of justice, alleging they used classified information to bet on the timing of military operations on Polymarket.

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