3M joins AMD, Meta, Oracle, Cisco, Arista to standardize expanded beam optical connectivity for AI data centers

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their area, according to a new Gallup survey. Just seven percent said they were "strongly" in favor of new data centers. According to Gallup, data centers are so strongly disliked that Americans would prefer to live near a nuclear power plant than a data center - even at its peak, opposition to nuclear power plant construction topped out at 63 percent. Gallup's data is based on a March 2026 survey of 1,000 randomly-selected American adults in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia, along with an April 2026 survey of 2,054 adults "who are members of the Gallup Panel." … Read the full story at The Verge.

A critical analysis of MRC's three counterintuitive design decisions, the networking mathematics that make them work, and what they mean for the rest of the AI infrastructure community. The post The Counterintuitive Networking Decisions Behind OpenAI’s 131,000-GPU Training Fabric appeared first on Towards Data Science.

The post OpenAI Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Data Sharing With Meta and Google appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A class action filed in California federal court accuses OpenAI of disclosing private ChatGPT user data to Meta and Google. The complaint says the company used embedded tracking technology without consumer consent. The lawsuit covers United States residents who entered queries on ChatGPT.com. It argues that OpenAI funneled personal questions and account details to two firms whose advertising networks reach billions of people each day. What The Complaint Alleges The filing centers on tracking technology that Meta and Google supply to website operators for analytics and ad targeting. According to the complaint, OpenAI embedded that code into its ChatGPT site and allowed it to transmit user information automatically. The plaintiffs say the disclosed data included query topics, account identifiers, and email addresses tied to individual users. The case argues that

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

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In the technology world, we often talk about “inflection points” as if they are common occurrences. They aren’t. Most companies spend decades searching for one, only to miss the turn when it finally arrives. But today, AMD didn’t just meet […] The post The AMD Inflection and How Execution and AI Strategy Are Redefining the Semiconductor Hierarchy appeared first on TechSpective.