Amazon’s Data Center Power Warning, Ex-Trump AI Adviser’s $500M Fund, Anthropic’s Cheaper AI Agents

The Information’s Amazon Reporter Catherine Perloff talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the warning that Amazon’s Mississippi data centers could be disconnected from the grid during peak demand, its Project Falcon response and the challenges of backup power. We also talk with The Information’s Tech and Politics Reporter Leo Schwartz about former Trump AI adviser Sriram Krishnan’s proposed $500 million AI fund and the growing movement of government officials into AI companies. Lastly, Handshake Director of AI Research Jonas Mueller discusses Claude Haiku 5.5, the economics of multi-agent systems, Mistral and Reflection’s latest models, competition with Chinese models and demand for sovereign AI.

Articles discussed in today’s show:
-https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-rewired-data-centers-mississippi-power-warning
-https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-trump-ai-adviser-sriram-krishnan-targets-raising-500-million-venture-fund

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Chapters:
01:13 - Introduction
03:03 - Amazon’s grid warning and Project Falcon
13:15 - Sriram Krishnan’s proposed $500 million fund
20:53 - Claude Haiku 5.5 and AI agent costs
23:59 - Benchmarks versus real-world AI performance
25:12 - Mistral, Reflection and the open-model race
30:34 - The demand and economics of sovereign AI