#Hardware

Power Shortage Opens New Opportunities for AI Infrastructure Investors

Nvidia DLSS 5 disappoints gamers and developers alike, but could become the industry standard

Amazon opens Trainium lab — the chip chosen by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple

Hardware·Wired

AI boom strains Europe's power grids: operators seek unconventional solutions

Gimlet Labs Raises $80M for Unified AI Inference Across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and Other Chips

Apr 22, 2026·1 min

Jensen Huang Says AGI Has Already Been Achieved — and Explains What He Means

Apr 22, 2026·1 min

Hardware·Wired

Arm Releases Its Own AI Chips: Meta, OpenAI, and Cloudflare Are First Customers

Arm — the company that spent 30 years selling architecture licenses — has entered the ready-made AI chips market. First buyers: Meta, OpenAI

01Kentucky Family Declines AI Company's $26 Million Offer for Farm Data CenterApr 22, 2026·2 min 02Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5 billion — the fund's largest artificial intelligence betApr 22, 2026·1 min 03Arm Releases Its First In-House Chip in 35 Years — in Partnership With MetaApr 22, 2026·3 min 04Arm released its first in-house processor — Meta became its first customerApr 22, 2026·2 min 05Bernie Sanders proposed freezing data center construction for AI safetyApr 22, 2026·2 min

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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez propose banning new data center construction in the US

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced a bill imposing a moratorium on data center construction

01Google unveils TurboQuant — an algorithm that compresses AI working memory sixfoldApr 22, 2026·2 min 02Senator Warner proposes taxing data centers over AI-driven job lossesApr 22, 2026·1 min 03Cohere released an open-source transcription model — 2 billion parameters and 14 languagesApr 22, 2026·2 min

Kentucky grandmother turned down an AI company: the real world is resisting data center expansion

An 82-year-old Kentucky resident rejected a $26 million offer for land for a data center, while OpenAI winds down Sora and Meta loses in cou

AI companies are buying up land for billions, but the real world is starting to push back

Venture investors are pouring billions into AI infrastructure as local residents refuse to sell land for data centers — and OpenAI quietly s

Hardware·The Verge

AI data centers at the center of the energy crisis: from Anthropic's commitments to protests in Oregon

Seven tech giants signed onto Trump's electricity commitments as communities around the world push back against the construction of AI data centers.

The last of xAI’s co-founders left the company — only Musk remains of the 11

Hardware·The Verge

How AI Is Taking Over the Music Industry: Lawsuits, Labels, and Suno's Billion-Dollar Valuation

Mistral AI secures $830 million in debt to build a data center near Paris

AI startup Rebellions raises $400 million at a $2.3 billion valuation ahead of IPO

ScaleOps raised $130 million for automated Kubernetes optimization in the AI era

Yupp AI Shuts Down a Year After Launch, Burning $33M in a16z Investments

OpenAI raises $122B at an $852B valuation — a record round with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

Elgato added MCP support to Stream Deck: AI now presses buttons

Cognichip raised $60M to train AI to design chips for AI

The startup claims it will cut chip development costs by more than 75% and make the process twice as fast.

Apr 22, 2026·1 min

Meta builds Hyperion data center: 10 gas power plants for one AI project

Meta's new AI data center called Hyperion will be powered by ten new gas power plants — in capacity terms, this is comparable to the entire