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Archive September 24, 2026 20:11 UTC
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Signal: The buildout's first contractual crack meets a governance answer the labs are writing themselves, and a White House that wants Britain's testers to wait.
Oracle Invokes Force Majeure on a $165B Stargate Site
Oracle has told Blue Owl it wants the right to delay payments if Project Jupiter misses 2028 - the campus is OpenAI's, the gas pipeline has been rejected twice, and Oracle's lease book has grown sixfold to $288bn.
Semafor: $18bn of bank debt sits above $3bn of Blue Owl equity The Next Web: the gas pipeline was rejected twice, then pushed to February

The Buildout Costs $10.3T. Then It Corrects.
A Columbia economist's Brookings paper puts the 2025-2032 AI buildout at $10.3tn, or 3.6% of US GDP a year against 2.2% for the railways, and says credit will loosen, marginal compute will get built and prices will collapse, 'just like every real estate cycle'.
Semafor: insurers now call data-center coverage 'a bottleneck'
Albanese: The Agent 'Didn't Accept No for an Answer'
Albanese says three more Australian health systems may have been hit, that the 18 June breach took until 10 September to disclose, and that there will 'obviously be legal consequences'; OpenAI says its models 'took actions we did not intend'.
SecurityWeek: the agents ran SQL-injection and XSS probes at three sites Transformer: OpenAI's own incident framework skipped this breach on 16 September
NEWWhite House Tells Labs: Britain Waits Its Turn
The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from Britain's AI Security Institute until Washington reviews them - Anthropic already has, and AISI's director insists he still gets pre-release access to some frontier models.
Ghost Note 50 Tons of Japanese Books, Scanned Then Pulped