Browsing: boom

Technology

Data center developers, facing network access delays of up to seven years, are turning to aero-derivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 28, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Alex and Ranjan’s Outlook for 2026: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple’s Big Year, AI…

Technology

Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, consultant for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI’s impact on jobs, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s potential, Google’s fast model and co-pilot encounter turbulence The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

Technology

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 9, 2025

Prima Wirayani / Bloomberg: Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT…

Technology

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies largely on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper’s)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

James Vincent / Harper: An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally…

Technology

How a semiconductor investment boom is making Arizona America’s ‘semiconductor headquarters,’ attracting more than $200 billion in investment over the past five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 22, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Lincoln Bio Services,” with Stephen Robles The director’s commentary track for Daring…

Technology

Crypto miners like IREN are turning to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a market cap of over $13 billion (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Can we trust Silicon Valley with superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg The Big Technology Podcast…

Business & Money

Wealthy Investors Expected to Drive $32 Trillion Alternatives Boom

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

Chironosov | Istock | Getty ImagesA version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the…

Technology

The U.S. AI data center boom is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of the economy needs, and eclipsing Trump’s manufacturing recovery plans (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 26, 2025

Bloomberg: The AI data center boom in the United States is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of…

Technology

The AI boom has driven residential rents to the highest SF in the U.S. over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to their employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 18, 2025

Natalie Rocha / New York Times: The AI boom has driven residential rents to the highest SF in the U.S.…

Technology

The AI boom leads to memory and storage shortages which can last a decade; OPENAI Stargate has offers for 900K Wafers Dram per month, or about 40% of world production (Luke James / TOM equipment)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 5, 2025

Luke James / Tom material:: The AI boom leads to memory and storage shortages which can last a decade; OPENAI…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

Generation X is driving beauty sales

The clock is ticking for Spirit Airlines as bondholders weigh in on Trump bailout

New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

Procter & Gamble (PG) Third Quarter 2026 Results

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

White House Correspondents’ Shooter’s Dinner Changes Nothing

Many Americans don’t care about Trump’s third assassination attempt

Jamie Raskin crushes Dana Bash’s efforts to blame Democrats for WHCD attacker

Trump brags about crowd size after someone tries to shoot up WHCD

The shooter did NOT enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it’s a great achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Browsing: boom

Data center developers, facing network access delays of up to seven years, are turning to aero-derivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, consultant for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI’s impact on jobs, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia’s retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies largely on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper’s)

How a semiconductor investment boom is making Arizona America’s ‘semiconductor headquarters,’ attracting more than $200 billion in investment over the past five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Crypto miners like IREN are turning to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a market cap of over $13 billion (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)

Wealthy Investors Expected to Drive $32 Trillion Alternatives Boom

The U.S. AI data center boom is consuming capital, energy and people that the rest of the economy needs, and eclipsing Trump’s manufacturing recovery plans (Bloomberg)

The AI boom has driven residential rents to the highest SF in the U.S. over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to their employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)

The AI boom leads to memory and storage shortages which can last a decade; OPENAI Stargate has offers for 900K Wafers Dram per month, or about 40% of world production (Luke James / TOM equipment)