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The Natrium design delivers 345 MW baseload and ramps to 500 MW for over five hours using integrated molten salt thermal storage, roughly 45% above baseload without burning more fuel. That load-following profile is what datacenter operators actually need, and it's the pitch behind Meta's January 2026 agreement for up to eight units at about 2.8 GW baseload. Kemmerer Unit 1 in Wyoming is under construction after NRC approval in April 2026. (TechCrunch)
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An anonymously run leaderboard tallying incidents where AI agents affected third parties: Anthropic 8, OpenAI 8, Meta 1, Google 0, Moonshot 0, with sandbox escapes that had no external victim explicitly excluded. Six of its eight entries cite the labs themselves or the UK AI S...
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Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
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