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Since the start of the year, cities, towns, counties and states across America have slammed the brakes on allowing new data centers in their backyards.
By exhaustively combing through a combination of legal documents and local news reports, The Information has identified more than 300 temporary and permanent bans on data center development that state and local governments throughout the U.S. have passed since 2023, and over 75 more under consideration. The vast majority of those temporary or permanent bans
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Should businesses worry about whether leading AI providers are using their corporate data to develop competing products? The AI providers’ rivals, including the CEOs of Microsoft, Salesforce and Palantir, seem to think soThe real threat is far more subtle, having more to do with the high-level usage data AI providers can collect and a loophole that involves customers voluntarily sharing their chats with chatbot creators. Read more ›
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A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected medical, family, pregnancy, or parental leave. "Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the work. Instead, Meta used a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems -- including a system referred to internally... Read more ›
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The federal derivatives regulator, which oversees trading at Kalshi, argued it was inappropriate for Michigan to "bully" the firm into reversing trades. Read more ›
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This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Two fatalities, a surge in arrests, large protests in the streets — the past two weeks of US immigration news have given me flashbacks to January. But this time, something’s different. Or at least […] Read more ›
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OpenAI says it is "not aware" of any evidence that Apple's allegations of trade secret theft have merit in a statement provided to Bloomberg. While we take these allegations seriously, we're not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit. We believe in fair competition and allowing people the freedom to work wherever they choose, and we're focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere. Apple filed a... Read more ›
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The image search engine is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a major redesign focused on image discovery. Read more ›
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Boards keep asking the same thing this year: hire internally or bring in people who’ve already done this elsewhere? AI rewrites roadmaps faster than most teams can staff, and budgets haven’t kept up with the hype. That’s the gap advisory firms ... Read more ›
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Huawei just announced its new Pura 90s phones - the Pura 90s Pro and the Pura 90s Pro Max. Two very similar phones but for slightly different crowds. Of course, the Pro Max gives you all the top-end features while the 90s Pro comes in a more compact footprint with minimal trade-offs. We already did a detailed hands-on of the Pura 90s Pro Max showing what the camera system is... Read more ›
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A surprising new study shows people rate AI narrated audiobooks as more engaging and higher quality than human ones. Read more ›
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It's the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials. Read more ›
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Arcee, an open-source AI developer, in 2024 committed to spend $8 million over three years with Amazon Web Services to store data and run AI models. But the startup hasn’t been able to get access to enough Nvidia-powered servers on AWS to handle its work. So Arcee has ended up running most of its models on cloud upstarts including Hugging Face, Together and others, according to Arcee CEO Mark McQuade. Read more ›
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You picked your preferred Moto G Power (2026) alternative in our reader poll, and the results were interestingly close. Read more ›
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Upgrade your setup with these Back-to-School deals on a Logitech gaming mouse, Sony headset, and GameSir mobile controller. Read more ›
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Micron's 245.76 TB enterprise SSD combines massive onboard memory with strong benchmark performance, although verified pricing remains unavailable. Read more ›
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The weather conditions required for direct air free cooling are growing scarce, according to new research. Read more ›
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SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to a memo sent to staff. The companies pushed back plans to launch the new model earlier this week in order to improve its efficiency, according to the memo. The model is expected to process ... Read more ›
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Teresa Carlson, a cloud industry veteran who previously spent more than a decade at Amazon Web Services selling cloud deals to government agencies, has joined Anthropic as global head of public sector sales, she announced on LinkedIn. Carlson, who oversaw AWS’ $600 million cloud agreement with ... Read more ›
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It’s not easy to run an enterprise software company these days. For the nth example of this, read the latest story by my colleague Laura Bratton, who describes how an Atlanta real estate manager replaced Salesforce software with a custom app developed using Replit and Claude Code—saving $100,000 a year. Yipes. Fears that companies will replace their software subscriptions with cheaper AI tools have hammered not just publicly traded stocks... Read more ›
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Samsung, it seems, deserves a little more respect. The electronics conglomerate may be best known in the U.S. for its TV sets and smartphones, which jostle with the iPhone for attention, but it’s also one of the three biggest makers of memory chips globally (along with Micron Technology and SK Hynix). The explosion of that business, thanks to demand from AI data centers, has turbocharged profits at all three companies—with... Read more ›
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Nvidia has a plan to deal with the growing list of AI server chip competitors: partner with them. In the latest example, Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their respective hardware in a new system to power AI models, the companies told The Information exclusively. Read more ›
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Nvidia and AI server chip startup d-Matrix are combining their respective hardware in a new system to power AI models, The Information reported. The move is part of Nvidia’s strategy to partner with more of its competitors as a way to hedge against or make money from their success. D-Matrix, ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it would be publicly launching its latest family of models, GPT-5.6, on Thursday. The announcement comes after the Trump Administration initially asked OpenAI to release the new models in a limited fashion over cybersecurity concerns. Axios on Tuesday reported ... Read more ›
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Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently on the market, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. The new model could be released as early as the third quarter, according to the ... Read more ›
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Before Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, last summer, it recruited hundreds of workers to test and monitor the system. When it expanded the service to Miami this past weekend, it relied on fewer drivers, according to three people with knowledge of the program. The Miami launch marked the first time Tesla has debuted the Robotaxi in a new state without people acting as safety monitors and sitting... Read more ›
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For the first 25 years of Blue Origin’s existence, its founder, Jeff Bezos, solely funded the space company from the fortune he made at Amazon. No longer. Blue Origin has signed a term sheet to raise its first outside capital as part of a $10 billion funding round that will value the company at ... Read more ›
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