Power Play Quartz By: Quartz Staff 20 October 2026 at 19:10 AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. An investigation into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics of AI development
Solutions Quartz By: Quartz Staff 20 October 2026 at 19:05 The cheapest fix for AI's power problem is America's power grid. That is, the one that already exists
Rulemakers Quartz By: Quartz Staff 20 October 2026 at 19:04 Even if Microsoft's Three Mile Island reactor was ready in 2027, it wouldn't generate power until 2031.
China inaugurated a state-owned data company to support its AI push Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 15:10 The company, based in Xiongan New Area, brings the number of centrally administered state-owned enterprises to 100
Former OpenAI research chief raised $230M for an AI manufacturing startup Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 14:40 The round values Arda at $1.5 billion; its AI software for manufacturing engineers has been deployed with Anduril
DeepSeek is open-sourcing the software it uses to run its AI models at scale Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 14:40 The DeepInfer framework supports the V4.1-Flash model on NVIDIA and Huawei chips and omits several parts of a full service