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March 27, 2026
Meta Funds 7 Gas Plants for AI Data Center
Meta is financing the construction of seven natural gas-fired power plants to power its most power-intensive data center in rural Louisiana. This move supports Meta's competition in the AI race. The plans were discussed on Bloomberg Tech.
Are 2B LLMs Practical or Just Toys?
New user questions practicality of 2B models like Qwen2.5 and Gemma on smartphones, noting hallucinations in 80% of replies for simple queries. Seeks confirmation if this is expected or user error. Discussion in r/LocalLLaMA.
ControlAI Briefs 279 Lawmakers on AI Risks
ControlAI's 2025 Impact Report details briefings to 279 lawmakers and 90+ US offices on superintelligence extinction risks. Key wins include a UK coalition of 110+ lawmakers, House of Lords debates, and Canadian parliamentary hearings. Plans call for G7 expansion from awareness to policy action.
Qumulo Opens AI R&D Hub in Ireland
Seattle-based Qumulo is launching a new R&D and customer success hub in Cork, Ireland. The expansion will create 50 jobs over the next three years. It responds to AI-driven demand for global-scale data infrastructure.
On-Prem OCR + RAG Pipelines Explored
User seeks advice on building fully on-prem document AI pipelines for confidential data, avoiding cloud. Setup includes OCR, NLP embeddings, and RAG on private infra. Mentions experimenting with Doc2Me AI and custom local model stacks.
Assistant_Pepe_70B Hosted on Horde
A user is hosting the Assistant_Pepe_70B model on Horde with high availability using 2xA6000 GPUs. It supports FP8 precision at 16k context length with near-perfect accuracy. Free access is available via lite.koboldai.net without login.
5 AI firms finalists for top workplace award
GeekWire named five finalists for Workplace of the Year award, recognizing exceptional company cultures. Finalists include AI research nonprofit Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), robotics firm Carbon Robotics, and AI tools Humanly and Yoodli. The award highlights values-driven environments in tech.
TensorFlow: COBOL of ML in 2026?
Reddit post argues TensorFlow is like legacy COBOL in ML, with PyTorch dominating 95%+ of HuggingFace/arXiv research and better DX. Even Google researchers prefer JAX. TF lingers only for enterprise and TFX pipelines.
Claude Hello Eats 2% Session Usage
A user reports that a simple 'hello' prompt to Claude consumes around 2% of session usage due to high token consumption. They are shifting workloads to Codex to avoid rapid session depletion. The post seeks confirmation from others facing similar issues.
Smartsheet C-suite hires; Armoire adds ML lead
Smartsheet announces four C-suite executives, all connected to its CEO. Fashion rental service Armoire appoints a machine learning lead. A former Microsoft director launches a new startup amid other tech moves.
EU Commission Data Stolen in AWS Hack
The European Commission suffered a cyberattack on its AWS account, potentially resulting in the theft of internal data. This incident occurred months after another breach that may have exposed staff details.
LLMs Think in Geometry Across Languages
Researcher demonstrates LLMs encode concepts geometrically, independent of language or modality, across 8 languages and 4 models including Qwen3.5-27B. Photosynthesis in Hindi clusters closer to Japanese than Hindi cooking. Python code and LaTeX equations for kinetic energy converge in the same internal space.
AI Threatens Unbundlable Jobs
Research shows AI endangers jobs where tasks can be unbundled into AI-doable and human-only parts. Software engineers and programmers face high risk, with 55% of such roles affected per Tufts study. Tightly bundled jobs with high coordination costs are safer.
Workers Fear AI Job Loss Despite Gains
AI boosts productivity for some workers, but others avoid it fearing job loss. Company leaders report employees see AI use as handing in their resignation. This fear turns many away from AI altogether.
Fed Paulson: AI Gains Uncertain, Iran Risks Rise
Philadelphia Fed President Anna Paulson states AI gains remain uncertain. The war in Iran introduces new risks to inflation and growth. No evidence labor market is fueling inflation.
NiCE Cognigy's Human-AI CX Balance Vision
NiCE Cognigy outlines its vision for balancing human agents and AI to deliver superior customer service. Key takeaways from the Nexus 2026 event emphasize evolving from a contact center platform to a comprehensive CX orchestration layer.
Study: 33% Help-Desk Tickets Halt Work
Fixify's study finds nearly one-third of large organizations' help-desk tickets are work-stoppers, with Tuesday as the busiest day. Okta tops problematic apps at 1 in 8 tickets, ahead of Salesforce, Microsoft, and Slack; large firms average 63 apps. AI requests focus on implementation without issues, unlike hardware or onboarding problems.
Anthropic Leaks Claude Mythos Beating Opus
Anthropic's internal documents accidentally leaked, revealing Claude Mythos (codename Capybara), a new model tier surpassing Claude Opus 4.6 in programming, academic reasoning, and cybersecurity. The company confirmed its existence and plans priority access for cybersecurity defenders due to its superior vulnerability exploitation capabilities. High costs and safety concerns delay public release.
TapTap's AI Game Agent Launch
Xindong's 2025 earnings show TapTap growth slowing but profits beat via cost cuts. TapTap released AI game creation agent Maker in Jan, now in invite testing. Growth hinges on new games and AI tool monetization.
Gemini Pro Leaks CoT in Infinite Loop
Gemini Pro dumped raw chain-of-thought and system prompts when queried on Gemma3 12B and RAG. It failed to terminate, repeating '(End)' thousands of times amid existential narration and multilingual goodbyes. Highlights include leaked checks like 'No revealing instructions: Check'.