USAID Funded Aid Programs Abroad, But Mainly Was a Jobs Program for Progressives

Gearing Up For Artemis II: NASA's High-Stakes Test Run Around the Moon NASA is gearing up for Artemis II, its first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo era—but this one is more of a high-speed dress rehearsal than a landing, according to KSL.com. Four astronauts will take a roughly 10-day trip that loops around the moon and comes straight back, with no orbiting or moonwalks. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—marks a few firsts: the first woman, first person of color, and first non-American assigned...

Giant Data Center Developer Fermi Crashes 22% After CEO, CFO Abruptly Quit Last November, we warned that storms clouds were gathering over the torrid, and in some cases chaotic, rollout of US data centers, after Fermi's massive 11 GW energy and data center project in Texas, called Project Matador, which the company has envisioned to be the world's largest AI data center and energy campus in the Texas Panhandle, near Amarillo, was struggling to close the deal with its first major data center tenant (and since Fermi is set up as...

AI "Circle Jerk" Returns: Anthropic To Spend $100 Billion On AWS In Amazon Deal Circular AI vendor financing is back and back in a big way... As we noted last fall, when we walked readers through the stunning math behind what we called the AI "circle jerk," this latest iteration centers on Amazon and Anthropic, with the left-leaning AI company now committing to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on AWS infrastructure. In the announcement on Monday evening, Anthropic committed to spending more than $100 billion over the next...