AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T | TechCrunch
… Demand is surging while supply struggles to keep up, pushing prices higher and boosting Samsung’s profits. There’s another reason shares surged on Wednesday. …
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Power prices are up 76% on America's biggest grid, and a watchdog is pointing fingers | TechCrunch
… Monitoring Analytics was direct that without rising demand from data centers, “the capacity market would not have seen the same tight supply demand conditions, the same high prices observed.” It added that “the current supply of capacity in PJM is not adequate to meet the demand from large data cen… …
Anthropic's Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts | TechCrunch
… As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned to OpenAI instead, which accepted and then watched ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295% . …
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up | TechCrunch
… He has written for a wide range of publications, including Wired magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Ars Technica, The Wire China, and NOVA Next, where he was founding editor. …
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs | TechCrunch
… Demand for data supply services is sky high right now as AI labs race to continue improving their models. …
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company's monopoly: no one is coming for us | TechCrunch
… The idea that one of our systems is in China is simply wrong. And because our EUV technology has never been exported there, we also have no people in China trained on EUV. …
The biggest US power grid is under strain from AI — and no one is happy | TechCrunch
… For decades it worked quietly and in the background, matching electricity demand with supply. …
South Korea's LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses | TechCrunch
… China’s Huawei , Alibaba, Xiaomi and others are all moving too. The numbers reflect the momentum. Global AI glasses shipments surged to 8.7 million units in 2025, up more than 300% from the prior year, and analysts project that figure will cross 15 million this year, per Omdia. …
So you've heard these AI terms and nodded along; let's fix that | TechCrunch
… And that supply bottleneck means that what’s left is getting more and more expensive. …