A Bloomberg analysis reveals that homes within 20 miles of AI data centers are experiencing dangerous levels of power grid distortions (bad harmonics), particularly in Virginia's "data center alley". Meanwhile, tech companies plan massive expansions of their data center infrastructure across the US.
At CES 2025, Delta Air Lines announced Delta Concierge, an AI-powered digital assistant launching in 2025 that will provide travel assistance through the Fly Delta app, offering features like proactive notifications, natural language interaction, and real-time airport navigation guidance.
After securing a $4B investment from Amazon in November 2024, Anthropic is reportedly close to raising an additional $2B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which would value the AI company at $60B.
At CES 2025, Nvidia announced Cosmos, an end-to-end world foundation model platform trained on 9,000 trillion tokens, designed to help developers create and test virtual environments for physical AI applications like robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Announced this Monday at CES, Nvidia's Project DIGITS personal AI supercomputer aims to put a petaflop of AI processing power in the hands of every data scientist, AI researcher and student. The small and mighty unit packs a GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and can run models of up to 200 parameters.
At CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled its GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, headlined by the $2,000 RTX 5090 with 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB GDDR7 memory, promising twice the performance of previous generations in both gaming and AI applications.
AMD announced its new Ryzen AI Max processor series at CES 2025, featuring up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and enhanced AI processing capabilities. The company also added more models to its Ryzen AI 300/300 PRO Series and introduced the more affordable 200/200 PRO Series.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm backed by quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, recently released DeepSeek V3, a model available for commercial and non-commercial applications. DeepSeek V3 displays competitive performance that approaches recent models and is particularly proficient in coding.
Google contractors have been reportedly asked to compare and score Gemini's responses against Claude's using criteria including truthfulness and verbosity. A spokesperson for Google DeepMind confirmed the company was only using Claude for model output comparison, a standard industry practice.
Coralogix has acquired Aporia to integrate its technology into a comprehensive observability platform that provides unified monitoring of AI and traditional software workflows. As part of the deal, Coralogix will also establish Coralogix AI, a dedicated AI research center.
Mindgard, a Lancaster University spinoff specializing in AI security, has raised $8 million in funding led by .406 Ventures to develop its continuous AI security testing solution further. The startup has also appointed two US-based executives as it plans to expand its presence in the US.
Databricks, Decart, Perplexity, and Anysphere all raised new funding; Google gave no breaks to OpenAI and launched a reasoning model and Veo 2; Grammarly acquired Coda; GitHub Copilot introduced a new free tier; Instagram is planning to launch Movie Gen-powered features; and more.