Tech Basics

Data Center Energy Bill changes shift grid upgrade costs toward large facilities, affecting siting, reporting, and power planning.

LLM Inference Cost depends on model size, prompt length, cache use, output tokens, and serving stack. Learn how to compare the trade-offs.

AI Threat Detection is changing vulnerability queues, with more disclosures, faster exploit timing, and new triage pressure for defenders.

Starfire SoC brings modern CPU, GPU, and NPU hardware to space missions, but radiation qualification remains the key test.

FAA SMART AI may help forecast airspace congestion, but its rollout has limits in scope, data quality, transparency, training, and governance.

AI adoption barriers are exposed by 2026 cyber incidents, including containment failures, monitoring gaps, access control, and skills limits.

AI Waste Heat can be reduced at device and system levels, but Stanford/SLAC results show lab methods need careful translation.

PACMAN Framework analysis of PPPL tests, safety gates, 20 ms control loops, sensor risks, and limits for AI-managed fusion.

AI Agent Security requirements in Congress: identity, inventories, DoD governance, testing duties, and limits as of September 19, 2026.

Frontier AI Reviews give agencies early visibility into closed models, while leaving open questions on standards, scope, and accountability.