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At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras detailed its next two wafer-scale accelerator generations, including a new Nexus rack architecture for the CS-4 system that triples rack-scale performance using three WS-3T engines. The company also confirmed that its future CS-6 system will introduce 3D-stacked DRAM directly on top of its wafer-scale logic and SRAM, marking a first for its chip design.
Amazon announced it will permanently retire Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the crowdsourced task platform it launched in 2005, effective September 30, 2026. The company cited its routine practice of evaluating tools and services, without giving a specific reason, though MTurk has reportedly been losing ground to newer AI-training platforms for years.
Canada confirmed a new round of tariffs matching Washington's 50% duties, covering more than 700 American products worth roughly $20 billion, set to take effect September 8. The move follows the collapse of trade talks last week, with both governments blaming each other for last-minute demands. Ottawa specifically doubled its tariff on U.S. steel and aluminum to 50% in direct response to similar U.S. levies.
Fervo Energy is launching its first utility-scale power plant, aiming to prove that enhanced geothermal technology can produce reliable, round-the-clock clean energy at commercial scale. The project follows a period in which geothermal has lagged far behind solar and wind as a share of the renewable energy mix.
Falling costs have spurred a surge in grid-scale battery storage proposals across the US, but aging grid infrastructure and equipment shortages are causing massive backlogs. Roughly 750 gigawatts of storage capacity are now waiting for interconnection approval, with median wait times rising from about 1.5 years in 2015 to 5 years in 2025. Utilities like Con Edison and PG&E report project queues swelling by hundreds of percent, citing shortages of transformers, breakers and skilled labor.