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The biggest obstacle to America's AI buildout is no longer chips or capital. It's electricity. And three of the most powerful names in the industry — Google, NVIDIA, and the energy-AI startup Emerald AI — just launched a coalition designed to remove it. The AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), announced Wednesday, is a first-of-its-kind coalition focused on turning AI data centers from grid liabilities into flexible grid assets: facilities that can dial their power consumption up and down as the grid needs, pair with on-site generation and storage, and earn faster interconnections for proving it. Eighteen launch partners have signed on, including Anthropic, chipmaker Analog Devices, utilities and developers AES, Constellation, NRG, and RWE, and grid operator National Grid. A data center roof in Arizona, lined with cooling towers and backup generators — the kind of infrastructure the new AI Energy Management Alliance wants to turn into "good citizens of the grid."...

For the first time since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the United States and China are about to sit down for a bilateral conversation devoted entirely to the dangers of artificial intelligence. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that Washington is open to discussing "shared risks" with Beijing at talks this weekend — a significant shift from months of confrontation over AI chips, models, and the technology's place at the center of the great-power contest. The announcement, reported by Axios and carried by Reuters on September 16, sets up a remarkable weekend of diplomacy: Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng ahead of a Trump–Xi meeting next week . It comes after a summer in which AI-related incidents — from rogue agents to alleged model theft — made the abstract question of AI safety feel anything but abstract. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend for the first off...