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AI Data Centers Raid Used Turbine Market as New Units Queue to 2031

A salvaged industrial gas turbine, streaked with rust and grease, sits on a flatbed trailer in a sprawling outdoor equipment junkyard under harsh midday sun, surrounded by rows of corroded

AI-generated summary Artificial intelligence data center developers are purchasing refurbished jet-engine generators because new gas turbines in the US carry an average lead time of six years. Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have all stated that orders driven by artificial intelligence have exceeded their production capacity.

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Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 with a price cut and stronger coding scores

AI-generated summary Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.2 alongside Mythos 5.2 with a price cut from $10 and $50 to $8 and $40 per million input and output tokens. Anthropic reports that Fable 5.2 scored 49.1 percent on FrontierCode 2.0 and generated output up to 30 percent faster than the previous version.

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Who Could Replace Jensen Huang? Nvidia Has No Formal Plan But 6 Possible Successors

AI-generated summary Nvidia lacks a formal succession plan as CEO and founder Jensen Huang faces an investigation regarding his relationship with a business executive that intelligence officials say is a Chinese spy. While Huang will remain CEO during the investigation, six potential successors are drawing attention should the board decide to replace him.

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Google Escalates Nvidia Rivalry With New Versions of Its TPU Systems

AI-generated summary Alphabet Inc.'s Google is releasing new versions of its custom tensor processing units to compete with Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence market. The latest chips are designed to support confidential computing and help models access a wider range of information for handling user queries.

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