A broken power line near Washington D.C. caused over 3 GW of load to switch to backup almost simultaneously, creating a voltage surge in the PJM grid. Experts warn that with the rise of AI clusters such events are becoming more frequent and require new solutions.

Black Forest Labs (BFL) introduces FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model trained jointly on images, video, audio, and robot action prediction. The model leverages Self-Flow architecture to align modalities, and early tests show strong preference over competitors like Luma Ray 3.2 and Runway Gen-4.5 in text-to-video generation.