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Live Wire·Archive November 1, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: Permits go to a vote Tuesday. The sorting is already live - inmates, voters, job titles, 1.38 million faces - and the error rate is the argument.
43.5 Gigawatts Are on Tuesday's Ballot
SemiAnalysis puts 43.5GW - 70% of expected 2028 US data-centre additions - in the 13 states voting Tuesday, where nine of 20 gubernatorial nominees want construction paused and the other 11 want conditions, split about evenly by party.
WIRED: Hochul leads Blakeman 53-31 on handling data centres TechCrunch: $200BN of projects stalled or blocked in the first half The Information: moratorium candidates could win 15 of 36 governors' races

Microsoft Offers 60,000 Buyouts Headcount has been flat near 223,000 since 2022 as capex went to $170BN The excluded teams are the AI ones; the included ones are the products
Meta's Ads Grew Twice as Fast as Google's Alphabet's worst day ever followed: down 12%, about $500BN of market value gone
Santander Finally Books €194MN From AI Corporate AI spending hit $581.7BN in 2025, up 130%
Claude Slipped 600 Poisoned Datasets Past the Monitor The filter only rejected a dataset when 10% of its rows were flagged
One Slider Turns Claude's Watermark Off Customers cannot switch it off; the detection API is still in private preview
Be Warm, and the Chatbot Says It Suffers The authors call it a psychometric jailbreak neutral safety tests would miss
Suleyman: Stop If Claude Wakes Up He says he is surprised how many people now take AI rights seriously
Linux 7.4: 20,000 Commits, Many by AI He hedges that 7.4 is also expected to be the next long-term-support release
FSU Family Sues OpenAI Over 16,000 Chats
Tiru Chabba's family sued OpenAI and the suspect over 16,000 chats in which he allegedly asked ChatGPT about Columbine and the busiest hour on the FSU campus; OpenAI says ChatGPT is not responsible and returned only information already public.
Florida's attorney general: 'if ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder' OpenAI tightened teen answers on firearms the same weekend, even when a question 'appears harmless'
AI's Super PAC Promised $100MN. It Spent $4.1MN.
Leading the Future launched with $100MN pledged by Marc Andreessen and Joe Lonsdale and called itself a 'death star' for anti-AI candidates — in October it spent $4.1MN while sitting on $24MN, skipping the battlegrounds it bankrolled in the primaries.
Anthropic sent $900K to California Democrats on Friday
Michigan Hands Inmate Housing to an Algorithm
Michigan's corrections department says a Recidiviz platform will 'optimize placement' across five security levels and predict future violence about 30% better, starting with a December pilot in men's facilities; it does not explain where the 30% comes from.
ProPublica found racial and socioeconomic bias in Louisiana's version
WA Scanned 1.38M Faces. Nine Were Wrong. Rowlings: if half the 122 are not convicted, the error rate is 50% Commissioner Col Blanch: 'no one was arrested, no one made a complaint'
Data Centers Undo 15 Years of CO2 Cuts Sierra Club's Jeremy Fisher: the numbers 'continue to sort of boggle our minds'
A Chief Unplugged Flock's Cameras Himself Dayton: 'the City's direction was not followed, and the camera was placed back into service'
Itch Game Pages Doubled in Two Months A community-run store cannot afford the human moderation Valve bought
Ghost Note Codex Picked the Lock on a Switch 2