Apple isn't burning mountains of cash to buy GPUs for the sake of training AI models and processing prompts. - Nor is it investing huge sums in frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic, as are rivals like Amazon and Microsoft. Why it matters: Apple may reap the rewards of everyone else's spend. Success from the sidelines. Apple's playbook: Keep selling high-end consumer hardware that will become even more essential as AI becomes more ubiquitous. - AI advancements could lead to shorter upgrade cycles, while Apple's reputation for enhanced privacy could become an enhanced selling point. - All the while, "taxing" the frontier labs via the App Store. It doesn't matter to Apple which app gets used most, so long as it's being used. Behind the…
As of April 2026, Texas has 84 operating data centers and 140 planned projects, according to an analysis by Cleanview, “a software platform that helps visualize clean energy data.”
Currently, there are no comprehensive regulations in state law specific to data centers. Meanwhile, the local public meetings often filled with questions and aggravation.
The Department of the Air Force is moving forward with actions to potentially build and operate one or more advanced artificial intelligence data centers at three DAF installations in Alaska.
Anthropic has begun a tightly controlled release of Mythos , the first AI model that officials believe is capable of bringing down a Fortune 100 company, crippling swaths of the internet or penetrating vital national defense systems. Why it matters: This is the scary phase of AI — a model deemed so powerful that its full release into the wild could unleash untold catastrophe . So only carefully vetted companies and organizations, about 40 so far, are getting access. Based on our conversations with government and private-sector officials briefed on Mythos, this isn't hyperbole . It's reality. - Some inside the government fear that most top leaders are oblivious to the sudden danger from terrorists or hostile powers. - "D.C. governs by…
The company said on Tuesday that it was holding back on releasing the new technology but was working with 40 companies to explore how it could prevent cyberattacks.
