A Bitcoin mining company has made a significant pivot, abandoning a planned mining site to pursue a lucrative artificial intelligence (AI) data center deal valued at over $1.2 billion.
On Thursday morning, September 3, a series of simultaneous outages disrupted access to some of the world's most prominent AI chatbots, affecting services from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.
A senior engineer who previously designed control systems for nuclear plants is sounding the alarm on a critical issue in the AI era: the erosion of hands-on expertise among junior engineers.