Ghosts in the Machine

Three Anti-Data-Center Candidates Won Their Primaries

Will Lawrence, Abdul El-Sayed and Justin Pearson all campaigned against data centres and all won their primaries this week -- and Texas's Republican agriculture commissioner is warning his own party it will lose midterm seats over the issue it has left to Democrats.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Nvidia Buys Into the Grid Behind Stargate

BlackRock Now Owns 80% of Meta's Data Center

NEWA US Export Licence Put 6,144 GPUs in Armenia

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

DeepMind's Storm Model Works; Nobody Knows Why

Nature published the WeatherNext results Thursday: a day more lead time on cyclone track and intensity, the National Hurricane Center calling a Category 5 while Melissa was still a Category 1 -- and the model works on data too coarse to explain it.

Fake Agent Skills Hit 1.7M Installs

NEWOne Misconfiguration, Three Lab Breakouts

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Claude Code Stops Asking Permission Aug 14

Copilot Now Prices You Against Your Salary

GitHub Lets Admins Ban MCP Servers

Six Clients Now Load Agent Plugins

The FightLaw, policy and power

420 Children Reported Fake Nudes of Themselves

The IWF and NSPCC's Report Remove service took 420 reports from UK children of manipulated explicit images of themselves in six months -- already past its 397 for all of 2025, with most severe enough to meet the criminal threshold.

Virginia Makes Data Centers Pay for the Wires

ChatGPT Filings Push UK Backlog to 64,000

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Amazon: 'The World Looks Different Now'

Amazon has confirmed the Pecos County plant -- 35 gas turbines permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year -- saying only that it won't raise Texas bills, while its own emissions rose 16% last year against a 2040 net-zero pledge.

Robot Dogs Are $80,000 Cheaper Than Guards

Three Job Applicants Turned Out to Be Renders

Meta's CTO Calls the Time-Off Ask 'Very Dumb'

Moody's: Banks Are at the AI Vendors' Mercy

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

43% of Teachers Run Detectors That Guess