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AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing

… Goldman Sachs' recent AI agent report suggests that the massive efficiency gains coming from next-generation inferencing chips would make AI use so much cheaper that investment can continue unabated, and profit should follow, with AI agents increasing the revenue at AI companies enormously. …

May 27, 2026 · Jon Martindale
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Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens — company also boasts of its improvements in water efficiency

… Amazon boasts water efficiency improvements As the pushback against data centers’ egregious resource consumption has become front-and-center in many permitting fights, Amazon is showing that it’s taking steps to reduce its water consumption and claims that it’s on track to being “water positive” by… …

Jun 14, 2026 · Jowi Morales
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Broadcom and OpenAI unveil custom-built Jalapeño inference processor — OpenAI's first chip is a massive reticle-sized ASIC built in an ultra-fast nine-month development cycle

… The two companies also claim that early internal testing indicates that Jalapeño's performance-per-watt is substantially better than 'current state-of-the-art hardware,' although no hard numbers, benchmarks , memory configuration, or other details are disclosed, so again, we will have to take the c… …

Jun 24, 2026 · Anton Shilov
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Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory

… The company boldly claims that this platform is “the most efficient ever built,” and it’s throwing its full weight into building a first-class Windows on Arm experience for what it envisions as the next frontier of personal computing. …

Jun 1, 2026 · Jeffrey Kampman
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra wields Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip with 128GB of RAM, 20 Arm CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU — 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra display rounds out the powerful package

… Weighing under just 4.5 pounds, it will be available in Platinum silver and Nightfall black color options. Microsoft claims all-day battery life on the laptop and an optimized internal layout with dual-fans to maintain proper thermals for sustained performance. …

Jun 1, 2026 · Kunal Khullar
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Chinese military has been acquiring Nvidia chips, even post-Washington export controls, research claims — multiple institutions linked to the PLA asked for Nvidia AI chips, according to publicly available documents

… The report claims "nearly every branch" of China's military, including units focused on nuclear explosive simulations, war games, and cyberattacks, was listed. In one specific instance, a cybersecurity unit sought Nvidia A100-powered AI servers for a password-cracking tool called hashcat. …

Jun 2, 2026 · Jowi Morales