34 h. ago Spark, Mayfield, and Kleiner Perkins pour another $75M into AI data center chipmaker Retym

Retym, a U.S. chipmaker with Israeli roots, has raised a fresh $75 million series D led by James Kuklinski of Spark Capital. Existing investors — Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha and Kleiner Perkins’ Mamoon Hamid — also participated, bringing its total raised to $180 million, it says. Retym is another startup benefiting from AI’s glow-up. It’s chips […]

Politics

5 d. ago Columbus among top data center hubs in United States, report finds

Columbus among top data center hubs in United States, report finds  NBC4 WCMH-TV

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6 d. ago A Fire Plunged Heathrow Into Darkness. A Nearby Data Center Kept Humming. Why?

It could cost $100 million and take years to install the backup generators to prevent another hourslong power loss like the one at Britain’s biggest airport last week.

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1 week ago Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage

After hitting record lows at the start of the pandemic, mortgage rates began to climb in 2022 and haven’t come down significantly since.  With 30-year mortgage rates hovering at over 6.5% today (they were as low as 2.49% in 2020!), buying a home is simply not that attainable for many people. One Denver-based startup is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago 'Bad idea': Conservatives warn red state data center bill will derail Trump's vision of energy 'golden age'

A bill being mulled in the Texas legislature is being blasted by conservatives who say that it will hamper President Donald Trump's energy plans and give China a leg up in the AI race.

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1 week ago Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators

Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators  Reuters

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2 w. ago Study: Concealed Carriers Stop More Active Shooters Than Police Do

Data compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that armed civilians stop more mass shootings than police do. The post Study: Concealed Carriers Stop More Active Shooters Than Police Do appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Port Washington City Council candidates talk data center, development and city issues

Port Washington City Council candidates talk data center, development and city issues  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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3 w. ago Researchers teach neural networks to add clouds and snow to images

Nikita Belyakov and Svetlana Illarionova, researchers from the Skoltech AI Center, presented a new method for semantic segmentation of multispectral data, which can be used to recognize clouds, shadows, and snow patches in satellite images. This approach will increase the accuracy of recognizing complex climatic structures in images without additional human involvement in data annotation.

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