AI #184: Post Post Mortem
I am exhausted. We may finally be nearing the end of direct coverage of What Happened with the attack on HuggingFace, and…
Month: September 2026
Fable 5.1
Hey folks,. I said Tuesday I was going on a bit of a tear with building stuff…. I scraped the OpenRouter website…
Could Fiber Be the Next Big Bottleneck in Data Center Growth?
New constructions are limited not only by electricity and water availability. The availability of fiber connections and the level of competition in…
AWS Wires a New US AI Route Across the Pacific
Amazon Web Services is constructing a 420 Tbps undersea cable between Japan and Washington State, planned for activation in 2029, to accommodate…
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for…
How AI Is Changing Fire Protection in Modern Data Centers
The effectiveness of safeguarding relies on incorporating it into the design from the start and adopting a comprehensive method that takes into…
Why Your RAG System Is Only as Good as Its Translator Model
The CIO of GlobalFoundries had a straightforward view of it: you don’t get AI agents until the data underneath them is real-time…
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake…
Why Data Centers Rarely Reuse Cooling Water
Although there are alternatives to evaporative cooling, data centers typically don’t use them because the financial aspects don’t support the increased initial…
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and…