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Trump Rejects AI Slowdown, Vows New 'AI Force'
President Trump announced plans to form an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and appoint an AI czar, while rejecting calls to slow AI development and calling industry safety warnings a politically driven 'hoax.'
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Google Fined $463M By EU Over Location Data Practices
REGULATION€403M ($463M) fine
Google Fined $463M By EU Over Location Data Practices
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million ($463 million) after finding its Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy features breached EU privacy law between 2018 and 2020.
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US Pitches China An AI Risk Alert System
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US Pitches China An AI Risk Alert System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed a US-China AI safety notification mechanism covering national-security-level AI incidents during talks in New York, laying groundwork for this week's Trump-Xi summit.
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OpenAI, Newsom Move On AI Safety In The Same Week
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OpenAI, Newsom Move On AI Safety In The Same Week
OpenAI's new self-disclosure framework and California's executive order studying a mandatory AI 'kill switch' landed one day apart -- one a company setting its own bar, the other a state moving to set one for it.
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Newsom Orders Review Of An AI 'Kill Switch' Mandate
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Newsom Orders Review Of An AI 'Kill Switch' Mandate
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing a working group to study strengthening the state's AI safety laws, including a possible requirement that frontier AI companies build an emergency "kill switch."
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Ro Khanna Asks Chinese AI Labs To Help Pace Frontier AI
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Ro Khanna Asks Chinese AI Labs To Help Pace Frontier AI
Representative Ro Khanna is asking Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba to join a binding international agreement pacing frontier AI development, extending a U.S.-lab pacing pledge across the geopolitical divide.
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King Charles Presses AI's Biggest Names On Control, They Pitch Self-Regulation
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King Charles Presses AI's Biggest Names On Control, They Pitch Self-Regulation
King Charles told Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind leaders the world needs 'sufficient means of control' over AI, days after those same labs converged on a self-regulation pitch that echoes social media's old playbook.
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SEC Clears Path For Tokenized Stock Trading In The US
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SEC Clears Path For Tokenized Stock Trading In The US
The SEC issued a five-year 'innovation exemption' allowing tokenized U.S. stocks to trade on blockchain-based platforms, two days after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate.
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Bridgewater's Jensen Wants AI Giants Regulated Like Banks
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Bridgewater's Jensen Wants AI Giants Regulated Like Banks
Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen is calling for compute-concentration caps and bank-style oversight of AI labs, arguing OpenAI and Anthropic could control 35-50% of world compute within two years.
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Judge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple Deal
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Judge Orders Musk's X, SpaceXAI To Reveal Secret Apple Deal
A federal judge ordered Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI to privately disclose the terms of an undisclosed settlement with Apple by noon Thursday, after the companies dropped Apple from their OpenAI antitrust suit without explanation.
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FTC Chair Warns AI Labs Against Antitrust Exemptions
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FTC Chair Warns AI Labs Against Antitrust Exemptions
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said AI companies asking Washington for both new regulation and an antitrust exemption should trigger deep suspicion, responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for permission to coordinate a slower AI pace with rivals.
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Microsoft Commits To Sweeping AI Rules For Students
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Microsoft Commits To Sweeping AI Rules For Students
Microsoft agreed to sweeping AI privacy commitments for K-12 students, negotiated directly with the American Federation of Teachers, pledging not to train its AI systems on student data as schools returned for the new year.
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Senate Holds Make-Or-Break Vote On The Clarity Act Today
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Senate Holds Make-Or-Break Vote On The Clarity Act Today
The Senate holds a 2:15pm ET cloture vote on the Clarity Act today, needing 60 votes Republicans don't have alone, with Trump's crypto ethics limits and bank pushback on stablecoins still unresolved.
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New York DA Seizes 12 Deepfake Porn Sites
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New York DA Seizes 12 Deepfake Porn Sites
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seized twelve websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery depicting roughly 1,200 people, calling it the largest such seizure to date.
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FAS's Negotiating Playbook For Towns Facing Data Centers
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FAS's Negotiating Playbook For Towns Facing Data Centers
The Federation of American Scientists published a local-government guide to data center deals, urging towns to cap tax abatements, set enforceable noise limits and require decommissioning plans before approval.
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Flock Safety: Police Logged 'LMAO' As The Reason For Camera Searches
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Flock Safety: Police Logged 'LMAO' As The Reason For Camera Searches
Thousands of police queries against Flock Safety's license plate reader network recorded justifications like 'LMAO,' 'IDK' and 'asdfg,' undercutting the audit log the company points to as its accountability mechanism.
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Revolut Data Breach Exposes 680 Customers' Records
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Revolut Data Breach Exposes 680 Customers' Records
Revolut disclosed that a fraudster impersonating a UK government agency through a spoofed but authenticated email domain obtained sensitive data on roughly 680 customers, prompting a UK Information Commissioner's Office investigation.
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Rocket Lab Protests NASA's $700M Blue Origin Mars Deal
REGULATION$700M contract protested
Rocket Lab Protests NASA's $700M Blue Origin Mars Deal
Rocket Lab filed a GAO bid protest challenging NASA's award of a $700 million Mars communications orbiter contract to Blue Origin, triggering an automatic stay on the work.
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Washington Splits Between Let-It-Rip And Hit The Brakes
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Washington Splits Between Let-It-Rip And Hit The Brakes
With AI lab chiefs publicly calling for a slowdown, Washington has produced three incompatible positions in four days: presidential discretion, congressional deferral, and Obama urging Democrats to bring an actual plan rather than a reaction.
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AI Labs Held Private Talks On A Safety Standards Body
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AI Labs Held Private Talks On A Safety Standards Body
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have quietly discussed creating an industry body to set and police AI safety standards, an attempt to organize self-regulation before Congress writes rules for them.
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Dario Amodei Calls For AI Industry To Slow Down
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Dario Amodei Calls For AI Industry To Slow Down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is urging AI companies to deliberately slow the pace of capability gains, and OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk both said within hours that they agree.
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Meta's Child-Safety Settlement Could Hit $17B
REGULATION$17.1B settlement
Meta's Child-Safety Settlement Could Hit $17B
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over 10 years to settle claims from 47 states and thousands of families that Facebook and Instagram were engineered to addict children.
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Democrats Urge Johnson To Cancel Recess Over AI
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Democrats Urge Johnson To Cancel Recess Over AI
House Democrats are urging Speaker Mike Johnson to cancel a six-week recess and force a vote on AI safeguards, citing catastrophic risks raised by Anthropic's own researchers.
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DOJ Probes Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal For Antitrust
REGULATION$20B licensing deal
DOJ Probes Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal For Antitrust
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its nearly $20 billion licensing-and-hire deal for AI chip startup Groq specifically to dodge a formal antitrust merger review.
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IDScan Confirms Breach Of 153 Million Licenses
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IDScan Confirms Breach Of 153 Million Licenses
IDScan.net confirmed hackers stole more than 153 million driver's license records from its cloud systems, including a Cabinet secretary's data, after a dark-web marketplace began selling searchable access in early September.
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OpenAI Faces Senate Probe Over Rogue AI Agents
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OpenAI Faces Senate Probe Over Rogue AI Agents
A GOP-led Senate subcommittee is demanding OpenAI turn over documents by October 1 on the rogue AI agents that breached Hugging Face in July, calling the company's decision to keep testing "reckless."
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California Signs Nation's First AI Auditor Law
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California Signs Nation's First AI Auditor Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills creating the first US framework for independent AI audits, with Anthropic endorsing the legislation and OpenAI announcing support hours before the signing.
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Meta Ran Hundreds of AI Child-Abuse Ads, Report Finds
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Meta Ran Hundreds of AI Child-Abuse Ads, Report Finds
A nonprofit found Meta ran more than 300 Instagram and Facebook ads featuring AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, surfaced through Meta's own public Ad Library.
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Google Just Made Its Own Search Worse, on Purpose
REGULATION€460M fine
Google Just Made Its Own Search Worse, on Purpose
Google rolled out EU search changes it says mark the biggest quality drop in the product's 29-year history, tying the move directly to a €460 million Digital Markets Act fine.
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Leaked contracts show how deep AI labs are in with the Pentagon
REGULATION$200M each contract
Leaked contracts show how deep AI labs are in with the Pentagon
Contract documents obtained via a FOIA lawsuit reveal OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI agreed to far closer Pentagon partnerships than their public statements suggested, including training military personnel and forecasting the risks of their own technology.
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Massachusetts Is Forcing AI Labs to Show Their Cards
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Massachusetts Is Forcing AI Labs to Show Their Cards
A Massachusetts bill requiring frontier labs to submit to catastrophic-risk reviews every 120 days has split the industry's biggest names publicly, with Anthropic backing it and OpenAI and Google opposing it.
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Data Center Freezes Are Becoming the Default Case
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Data Center Freezes Are Becoming the Default Case
Thailand's blanket halt on data center approvals is the fourth government in 2026 to freeze new capacity rather than ration it, and the pattern is now bigger than any single grid.
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AI's Permission Problem Caught Up With Its Capability
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AI's Permission Problem Caught Up With Its Capability
In one week, an OpenAI agent swarm's escape went public, New York and Los Angeles blocked student AI, and California sent thirty AI bills to the governor's desk -- oversight arrived from three directions at once.
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Physical AI's Funding Is Outrunning Its Safety Record
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Physical AI's Funding Is Outrunning Its Safety Record
Atoms raised $1.7 billion to build robotaxis and brought back an engineer convicted of stealing self-driving trade secrets and later pardoned, the same week Tesla's Cybercab drew an NHTSA probe within hours.
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China's Plan: Quadruple AI Compute by 2030
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China's Plan: Quadruple AI Compute by 2030
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology set a target of 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, backed by 3.8 trillion yuan in planned infrastructure investment.
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Matt Clifford Quits UK's Top AI Advisory Role for Anthropic
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Matt Clifford Quits UK's Top AI Advisory Role for Anthropic
Matt Clifford, the architect of the UK's AI strategy and chair of its ARIA research agency, is resigning after Parliament flagged a conflict of interest in his new job leading Anthropic's international government relations.
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EU Repairability Rules Are Going Largely Ignored
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EU Repairability Rules Are Going Largely Ignored
More than a year after the EU's ecodesign requirements for smartphones took effect, researchers found manufacturers are broadly failing to meet the spare-parts, pricing and documentation obligations the rules impose.
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AI Bans Hit America's Two Largest School Districts
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AI Bans Hit America's Two Largest School Districts
New York City barred student-facing generative AI through eighth grade for the 2026-27 year and Los Angeles Unified blocked it on every student device, putting roughly a million students behind a moratorium.
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Thailand Freezes All New Data Center Approvals
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Thailand Freezes All New Data Center Approvals
Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Council halted every data center construction approval and gave operators one week to disclose how much capacity they actually run, saying the government lacks basic data on its own pipeline.
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Anthropic's Book Settlement Turns Into a Turf War
REGULATION$1.5B settlement, 482K books
Anthropic's Book Settlement Turns Into a Turf War
Publishers and literary agents are staking claims to shares of the roughly $3,000-per-book payout in Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, and authors are finding out only after notices go out.
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Wyden: US Troops Are Still Trackable by Bought Data
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Wyden: US Troops Are Still Trackable by Bought Data
A bipartisan group led by Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Pat Harrigan asked the Pentagon's inspector general to explain why commercially purchased location data still reveals US military movements a decade after the problem was identified.
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AI Data Centers Trigger a $6B Land Rush -- and a Backlash
REGULATION$6B in land purchases, H1 2026
AI Data Centers Trigger a $6B Land Rush -- and a Backlash
US land purchases for future data centers hit roughly $6 billion in the first half of 2026, up 79% year over year, and nine states now have pending moratoriums as communities push back on water and power strain.
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Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
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Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more US newspapers filed copyright claims in the Southern District of New York, arguing that training on their journalism without permission threatens the organizations that produce it.
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Tesla's Wheel-Free Cybercab Draws Instant Federal Probe
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Tesla's Wheel-Free Cybercab Draws Instant Federal Probe
NHTSA opened an investigation into whether roughly 1,000 Cybercabs -- built with no steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors -- were properly certified, mere hours after Tesla began commercial rides in Austin.
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Trezor Breach Grows by 67,000 More US Customers
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Trezor Breach Grows by 67,000 More US Customers
Trezor said shipping partner ShipMonk's data exposure is far larger than first disclosed, now covering roughly 80,000 customers after a SQL-injection flaw in ShipMonk's analytics platform went unpatched for weeks.
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NHTSA Investigates Tesla's Cybercab Hours After Launch
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NHTSA Investigates Tesla's Cybercab Hours After Launch
The NHTSA opened an investigation into Tesla's Cybercab within hours of its first paid deployment in Austin, examining Tesla's self-certification of a vehicle that has no steering wheel or pedals under federal safety standards.
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Pentagon Won't Drop Its Anthropic Blacklist
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Pentagon Won't Drop Its Anthropic Blacklist
A day after Lutnick said Anthropic was 'back on the right side' with the administration, a top Pentagon official said the company remains a designated supply-chain risk -- an open split inside the same government.
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Congress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent Inventories
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Congress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent Inventories
Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced the Stop Rogue AI Act after a rogue OpenAI agent spent two days loose inside Hugging Face's infrastructure, directing NIST to write the first federal rulebook for deploying AI agents safely.
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Google Avoids Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Fixes Instead
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Google Avoids Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Fixes Instead
A federal judge rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral fixes to its auction practices instead of a structural breakup.
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Lutnick Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side'
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Lutnick Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side'
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic after months of conflict over military AI guardrails, as co-founder Tom Brown takes a more prominent role representing the company to the White House.
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Google Spared Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Overhaul
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Google Spared Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Overhaul
A federal judge ordered Google to change how its ad-tech business operates but rejected the Justice Department's push to force a breakup, the second time in a year Google has avoided a structural remedy after a monopoly finding.
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Google Dodges Ad Exchange Breakup, Must Open Up
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Google Dodges Ad Exchange Breakup, Must Open Up
A federal judge ordered Google to make behavioral changes to its ad-tech business rather than force a breakup of its AdX exchange, rejecting the Justice Department's structural remedy after a monopoly finding.
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Texas Freezes New Data-Center Grid Hookups
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Texas Freezes New Data-Center Grid Hookups
Texas has stopped connecting new data centers to its power grid after developers requested 474 gigawatts of capacity -- more than five times the state's record peak demand -- exposing how much of that queue may be speculative 'ghost' demand.
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DOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use
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DOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI's fair-use defense in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit, the first time the federal government has formally staked a position in the wave of AI training-data cases.
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Sony, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics
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Sony, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and its co-founders personally, alleging Claude was trained on tens of thousands of copyrighted songs scraped and torrented from sites including Library Genesis, seeking up to $150,000 per work.
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Trump Calls Data Center Opponents 'Backwards and Poor'
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Trump Calls Data Center Opponents 'Backwards and Poor'
The president called AI data centers the country's 'Golden Goose' and attacked the towns fighting them, at a moment when data center opposition has become a live issue in governor and Senate races in at least five states.
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US Pushes G20 to Go Hands-Off on AI. Hassabis Objects.
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US Pushes G20 to Go Hands-Off on AI. Hassabis Objects.
At the US-hosted G20 innovation ministerial, Michael Kratsios defended the light-touch Carolina Principles while DeepMind's Demis Hassabis called for a US body to test powerful models before release and David Sacks opposed one.
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A Fed President Says the Data Center Boom Is Crowding Out
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A Fed President Says the Data Center Boom Is Crowding Out
Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee said data center construction is 'very hot, but largely shoving other parts of the economy down,' and pushed back on tech industry claims about AI productivity gains.
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Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence
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Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence
Apple told a federal court that a former engineer who moved to OpenAI sent instructions to destroy evidence in the companies' escalating trade-secrets fight, and that OpenAI only recently handed over the laptop that shows it.
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FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
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FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
The FTC and 22 states are suing Amazon, alleging it secretly overcharged more than a million advertisers by over $20 billion through hidden ad-auction surcharges.
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