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Artist Molly Crabapple called generative AI the biggest art theft

Samsung reassures the market: Google TurboQuant may increase demand for AI memory

Kepler Communications opens the largest orbital cluster of 40 Nvidia Orin chips

Madison Air raised $2.23 billion in its IPO and bet on data center infrastructure

Qualcomm and China’s CXMT prepare new DRAM for smartphones amid memory shortage

Microsoft veteran ran a transformer on a 6 MHz PDP-11 with 64 KB of memory

Hardware·KDnuggets

KDnuggets selected the five best books of 2026 for building agentic AI systems

KDnuggets compiled five books that help make the move from simple LLM wrappers to production agents with memory, tool calling, evals, and a

01Senators Warren and Hawley demand disclosure of US data center energy useMay 2, 2026·3 min 02Senators Warren and Hawley demand disclosure of U.S. data centers' actual energy useMay 2, 2026·3 min 03Cerebras seeks up to $4 billion in IPO, targets valuation of about $40 billionMay 2, 2026·3 min 04U.S. Senate seeks data from data centers on electricity bills and grid loadMay 2, 2026·3 min 05Google funds a Texas data center being prepared to run on a major gas-fired plantMay 2, 2026·3 min

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Hardware·TechCrunch

US poll finds: people are more comfortable living next to an Amazon warehouse than a data center

Two recent US polls show that AI data centers cause more concern among nearby residents than e-commerce warehouses, with the main fears bein

01Nebius acquires Eigen AI for $643 million to accelerate and lower the cost of AI infrastructureMay 2, 2026·2 min 02TSMC reported 58% profit growth: AI investments supported chip demandMay 2, 2026·2 min 03Meta expands multibillion-dollar alliance with Broadcom for its own AI chipsMay 2, 2026·2 min

Google-linked data centers prepare record $5.7 billion high-yield bond issuance

Google-linked data center operators want to raise $5.7 billion through a high-yield bond issuance — it could become the largest deal of its

Hardware·TNW

Sequoia Capital raised $7 billion for its largest growth fund, nearly doubling its AI bet

Sequoia Capital has closed the largest growth fund in its history at $7 billion: nearly twice the size of its 2022 counterpart and a clear b

Elon Musk's team speeds up Terafab and holds talks with suppliers on chip production

Elon Musk's team has begun talks with Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron and Lam Research to launch the Terafab project and try to enter the advanced chip manufacturing market.

Hardware·TNW

US utilities prepare $1.4 trillion in investments by 2030 amid AI data center boom

Hardware·CNews AI

Memory card makers cut speeds amid flash memory shortage

Hardware·MarkTechPost

Microsoft, NVIDIA, and IBM made the list of the 19 leading AI red teaming tools of 2026

Hardware·Habr AI

Claude and the illusion of honesty: why people trust chatbots more than their own judgment

Hardware·3DNews AI

China delays HBM3 launch again: local AI accelerator makers' plans at risk

Alphabet discusses two new AI chips with Marvell to speed up inference in Google services

Blue Energy raises $380 million for modular nuclear plants for data centers

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron OCR v2: multilingual OCR trained on 12.2 million synthetic documents

Hardware·TechCrunch

Cursor in talks for a $2B+ round at a $50B valuation amid enterprise growth

Cursor, according to TechCrunch, is in talks for a funding round of more than $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation amid explosive growth in

Allbirds moves from footwear to AI infrastructure, and the market recalls the dot-com era

Sneaker maker Allbirds is selling its footwear business, raising $50 million for GPU infrastructure, and renaming itself NewBird AI, while t