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Signal: Governments stopped debating and started switching: Florida rips out the cameras, the Pentagon installs Grok, and Trump tells the towns to comply.
Let Data Reign: Trump Turns on the Towns Fighting Back
Three-quarters of Americans tell pollsters they would oppose a data centre next door, and the president's answer, with November's midterms nearing and his own party's Senate committee warning about that polling, is that they will only have themselves to blame.
CNBC: Republican Senate committee memo warned voters' data-center views must be fixed quickly CNN: Vance says he feels their pain while Trump says let data reign Daily Caller News Foundation: the studies do not show data centres make towns richer
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Buys a Seat on Everyone Else's Chip
Nvidia is putting $3.5bn of convertible bonds into MediaTek and handing it NVLink Fusion, so the hyperscalers designing custom silicon to escape Nvidia still plug that silicon into an Nvidia rack - conceding the chip to keep the data centre.
Nvidia newsroom: MediaTek adopts NVLink Fusion for prevalidated custom XPUs in rack-scale AI factories
OpenAI's Ads Hit $1B a Year in 200 Days OpenAI: ads now run in 40 countries, with self-service opening in India and the EU
Z.ai Revenue Up 400%, Stock Down 60%
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
AI Reads a Century-Old ECG for Heart Failure
NEWTens of Thousands of Mac Minis, for Agents TechRepublic: the orders cover Mac minis and Mac Studios alike
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenClaw 2.0 Adds Multiplayer, Not Isolation The Register: 2.0 adds shared sessions to a project with unresolved security debt
OpenAI Bills Only When the Agent Finishes
AWS Ships a Registry for Everyone's Agents
Copilot's Agent Window Lands in VS Code
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWPentagon Installs Grok. Claude Still Banned.
Approved builds of ChatGPT and Grok went live Monday on GenAI.mil for three million military users at the highest unclassified impact level, six months after the Pentagon purged Anthropic as a supply-chain risk - a designation a federal judge called baseless last week.
TechCrunch: the Pentagon now has its own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Brussels Just Made ChatGPT a Very Large Search Engine The Decoder: lawyers dispute whether Article 40 access reaches training data or weights
NEWApple: He Taught an Agent to Run Our Schematic MacRumors: 'Why do they even need you then?' - the chat log Apple filed
'Zlibrary My Beloved': Anthropic's Own Chats
FSU Victim's Family Sues OpenAI and Altman
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWFlorida Rips the Plate Readers Off Its Highways
Florida's transport department is revoking every automated plate-reader permit on state highways and giving operators thirty days to pull the cameras down, and by Monday night four sheriff's offices including Jacksonville's had dropped Flock entirely.
Decrypt: Texas cuts off state funding for Flock as officer misuse cases pile up Orlando Sentinel: cameras must come off state roads within thirty days
Pentagon Denies the Strike the President Posted Al Jazeera: Vance says the video was a message that Iran faces consequences in Hormuz
Backlash at Home, 250 Megawatts in Riyadh
NEWPhD Student Beats Utility With £175 of Tokens
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWInstagram Will Demote the Unlabelled Fakes Engadget: unlabelled AI influencers get demoted rather than removed
Ghost Note The Cat in the Hat Is Outside the School
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