Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture(theregister.com)

88 points by joebuckwilliams 1 month ago | 52 comments

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal(theregister.com)

76 points by Bender 1 year ago | 62 comments

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape(theregister.com)

51 points by Bender 6 months ago | 28 comments

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout(theregister.com)

889 points by raw_anon_1111 1 year ago | 460 comments

A Register column by Corey Quinn arguing that the October 2025 AWS outage, caused by DNS issues, reflects Amazon losing senior engineers and institutional knowledge.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)

902 points by itvision 2 months ago | 681 comments

The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix(theregister.com)

148 points by magoghm 10 days ago | 56 comments

The Register article reporting that PostgreSQL 19's release was pushed to November and up to 10 features reverted after AI review tools surfaced more bugs than developers could fix.

Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center(bloomberg.com)

104 points by simonpure 1 month ago | 92 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that Oracle invoked a force majeure clause to shield itself over a controversial AI data center project.

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK(app.dealroom.co)

494 points by delduca 2 months ago | 356 comments

Dealroom news feed item reporting that Oracle has banned AI-generated code contributions to OpenJDK, contrasting with Larry Ellison's claims about Oracle's internal AI use.

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity(ft.com)

127 points by Betelbuddy 1 month ago | 107 comments

Financial Times article on Oracle being obligated to pay data centre investors even if a site lacks electricity; the capture shows a Cloudflare security check with a 403 error.

Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says(bloomberg.com)

373 points by suraci 1 year ago | 304 comments

Bloomberg article reporting an analyst's claim that Microsoft has begun canceling leases for AI data center capacity amid questions about AI demand.

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored(deno.com)

554 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 146 comments

Deno blog post on its legal fight to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark, arguing Oracle cited Node.js as use of the mark and now wants that disregarded.

Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours(bloomberg.com)

23 points by mfiguiere 16 days ago | 7 comments

Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.