Signal: Verification is the bottleneck now -- proofs, exploits and hiring scores nobody can audit -- while towns block the power rather than the data centre.
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest on Elon Musk's side in xAI's First Amendment challenge to Minnesota's AI nudification ban -- without taking a position on the injunction the judge says he will rule on soon.
The clearest single-company bill yet for the buildout: Alibaba's AI and cloud revenue grew at its fastest pace in 22 quarters while capital spending rose 75% to $10bn and net income fell by three quarters.
Terence Tao's essay for the International Congress of Mathematicians warns that AI proofs are arriving faster than anyone can check them, and proposes a test: a result whose authors cannot explain it in a talk should not be published.
The Senate Republican campaign arm told AI companies their data centers are a toxic brand; a Michigan township has now banned the substation rather than the building, and Loudoun County -- 250 data centers, $1.1bn a year -- is slowing construction anyway.
GOP to AI: We Can't Fix Your Toxic Brand
