Meta sets up ‘Meta Compute’ organization for gigawatt-scale AI data centers — initiative is said to consume hundreds of gigawatts over time

Meta establishes ‘Meta Compute’ organization to manage buildout of next-generation data centers and development of custom computing architectures that will power gigawatt-class data centers.

Grok targeted in UK law over sexually-explicit AI image generation — UK will begin prosecuting illegal prompting this week

The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region’s communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok, investigating the…

Jensen Huang claims that ‘god AI’ is a myth — Nvidia chief says ‘doomer narrative’ is ‘extremely hurtful’

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are “extremely hurtful,” and that science fiction speculation isn’t connected to reality.

FCC approves 7,500 additional Starlink Gen2 satellites — service will benefit from higher throughput and lower latency worldwide

The FCC has partially approved a significant expansion of SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink constellation, authorizing 7,500 additional LEO satellites under a partial grant.

US Department of Commerce lifts planned crackdown on Chinese drones, including DJI — company gets reprieve ahead of Xi-Trump meeting in April, but the FCC ban still stands

The U.S. Department of Commerce has retracted its proposal to stop the import of DJI drones, but the FCC’s ban means that the U.S.’s doors are closed to new DJI models anyway.

This $2,000 Bitcoin mining water heater can pay for itself by slashing your energy bills, company claims — can rake in $1,000 a year in BTC, offset 80% of electricity and water costs

Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.

Meta inks deals to supply a staggering 6 gigawatts in nuclear power for data center ambitions — enough wattage to supply 5 million homes

The 6GW will come from various suppliers — both existing and upcoming — to deliver the estimated 1GW that Meta’s Prometheus site will require in 2026, and the 5GW its Hyperion data center will need by 2028.

President Trump, Sec. Lutnick praise Intel after the launch of Panther Lake chips — says investment in company already bringing ‘tens of billions of dollars for the American people’

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on their respective social media platforms to praise Intel and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, for the launch of the first chips made using the Intel 18A process node….

Intel makes sharp reversal, is ‘going big time into 14A,’ says CEO Lip-Bu Tan — ‘serve the customer well’ remark hints at external client

Intel’s CEO says he expects ‘great momentum in terms of yields and IP’ on the company’s 14A process technology.

HBM4 mass production delayed as Nvidia pushes memory specs higher — production to come ‘no earlier’ than late Q126

HBM4 memory is now expected to reach volume production no earlier than the end of Q1 2026 due to Nvidia’s decision to revise its memory specs upward for its next-gen Rubin GPU platform.