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Donald Trump expresses concerns about Anthropic as a national security threat and discusses AI energy needs and regulation.
Researchers develop a brain-inspired phototransistor that senses and stores data, potentially reducing AI energy consumption.
Senator Cynthia Lummis is introducing the POWER Up Act, which would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority over data center connections to the power grid, addressing AI energy consumption concerns.
Data center and AI water use concerns are exaggerated; studies show data centers create local jobs and boost wages, and hyperscale facilities bring more benefits than older co-location centers.
The article suggests that rapidly growing AI computing demand could make power supply a bottleneck. China, with its decades of energy infrastructure investments, has a head start in this competition, while the US may be neglecting energy issues due to its intense focus on chips.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA’s Ian Buck discuss the Genesis Mission, a DOE effort to apply AI to scientific discovery, at the SCSP AI+ Expo. They highlight NVIDIA's partnership in building AI supercomputers and the importance of energy for AI.