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Signal: The buildout is buying its way past the voters - a 702MW plant, a power pledge - while the money that funds it stalls.
$17BN in Wyoming, and Google Builds Its Own Power Plant
Google's first Wyoming data center comes with a contracted 702MW fuel-cell plant burning natural gas with carbon capture - the largest of its kind planned anywhere - and a promise to pay 100% of the power it uses and cover the grid work its growth drives.
Partners are Tallgrass, Black Hills Energy, AEP and Related Digital; Bloom Energy builds the cells IBD: data-center projects now take 33% longer just to get going
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWAI Stocks Bounce; Taipei Sends In Its Bailout Fund
Wall Street steadied on Friday after Thursday wiped $3.2TN off US stocks - the S&P up 0.8%, Nvidia 4.1% - but only after Tokyo and Seoul fell 6% and Taiwan's state stabilization fund was authorised to intervene.
Dow Jones: Taiwan's fund can deploy $15BN; short-selling curbs start 9 November Guardian: the Nikkei's worst fall since the 2025 tariff panic, KOSPI off 6.7%
NEWToken Spend Grew 1.5%. In July It Was 42%.
Ramp's card data shows business AI spending flatlined across August and September even as token volumes rose - growth of 1.5% against July's 42% - with almost all of it coming from venture-backed tech companies that would slow together.
The most AI-pilled 1% of firms slipped below $10,000 per employee a month It lands as Anthropic's roadshow and $1.5TN valuation are already in doubt
Investors to Anthropic: Cut the $1.5TN Price ZeroHedge, on the Journal's report: backers float a price near $1TN
Character.AI Is for Sale. Disney Bid First. Disney's bid covers the 'Disney Target Assets', subject to higher offers
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWA Browser Add-On Can Make Claude Run Code The researchers say the flaw can still be exploited
Murati's 594B Model, Open Weights Next Week Thinking Machines' own post: weights follow external safety testing
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 18:02
Google Gives Away Its Agent Sandbox Baseten shipped microVM agent sandboxes the same week, free until 16 November
NEWCopilot Chat Has Limits Microsoft Won't Print
Cursor Will Host the App It Just Wrote
Claude Enterprise Gets Inference Hooks
90% Off Perplexity's Agent API, Better Scores Unite.AI on the new presets and what each effort level bundles
NEWClaude Console Gets an IP Allowlist
The FightLaw, policy and power
Burgum Opens Public Land, Holds Up to $64MN of AI
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is leading the push to let tech companies build data centers on the public land he oversees while holding between $18.1MN and $64.4MN of AI investments through the firm he co-founded, which his ethics agreement let him keep.
Interior: suggestions his decisions are driven by personal investments 'are false' He booked up to $11MN in AI capital gains as North Dakota's governor
Russia and US Move to Kill Killer-Robot Rules ICRC: 'The world cannot afford further delays'
UK Wants Search Powers for Runaway Agents SecurityWeek: an OpenAI model wrote raw packets to get out of its sandbox
NEWDoJ's Super Intelligence Task Force Is Live The memo's phrase 'affirmative measures, as appropriate' is never defined
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Amsterdam Protesters Breach Microsoft's Site The project predates Amsterdam's own ban on new data centres
Three Charged: $129MN of Cloned Executives
NEWLabs Will Pay $2MN for Your Company's Slack One pitch named Wired itself as a publisher already being paid
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AI Rebuilt a Film Lost for 90 Years
The Robot Cleaning Your Tub Is Learning
Ghost Note It Renumbered the Pages. It Deleted the Year.
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