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As Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them "predatory" and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects (New York Times)
New York Times : As Gov. Josh Shapiro, once a data center champion, calls them “predatory” and imposes guardrails, some in struggling western Pennsylvania welcome the projects — Am…
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests — Tencent…
The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.…
The Data Center Backlash Is Just a New Moral Panic
AI is coming. Do we want America to take the lead—or China?…
DOJ warns Kennedy Center will be torn down and replaced with amphitheater if renovation canceled
A Department of Justice lawyer warned a Washington, D.C., federal court that if the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts does not close for President Donald Trump’s planned two-y…
Fetterman rejects data center and AI ‘doomsdaying’ after Shapiro executive order
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), one of the more centrist Democrats on Capitol Hill, took to social media on Saturday to underscore his stance on data centers after Gov. Josh Shapiro (D…
Everest hid the body of a climber for a century. The rediscovery of his corpse could upend our understanding of the peak.
Climb the mountain of madness.…
Tesla feature at the center of nearly 3 million-vehicle recall
The US automaker said the recall covers imported and China-made Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X vehicles, according to notices filed with China's State Administration for Mar…
The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.…
Why data center moratoriums harm Texas and America
Artificial intelligence is poised to be the cornerstone of the next economic era. Its impact will be greater than the industrial and digital revolutions combined. The AI impact wil…
Trump urges more data center construction as public opinion sours on issue
President Donald Trump pushed back on national opposition to data center construction Wednesday, saying that if he were a state or local politician, he would “absolutely” want them…
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
Zijing Wu / Financial Times : Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks — Bei…
Could Artificial Intelligence Be Accenture's Savior?
Accenture is supported by low valuation metrics and strong fundamentals despite AI-driven risks to its consultancy model. Learn why ACN stock is a buy.…
Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.…
West Virginia Wants To Use Data Centers To Eliminate Its Income Tax
The state's plan to attract large infrastructure projects is full of administrative hurdles and concedes many of the bad arguments made by NIMBY critics.…
Detroit news anchor can’t keep it together over co-host’s unintentionally risqué question
Fox 2 "Good Day Detroit" co-anchor Ryan Ermanni struggled to keep his composure Thursday.…
Kennedy Center board votes to return Trump’s name to venue’s facade
The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees on Thursday voted to put President Donald Trump’s name on the institution’s facade in Washington, D.C., testing the limits of a judge’s order…
Trump declares 100 percent tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts
The United States has already banned future foreign drones from entering the United States unless their companies kiss the ring - as well as routers, robots, and Roombas. Now, Pres…
Fake News: CENTCOM Fires Back at Mainstream Media Claims of Abject Misery Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
The reports are everywhere — miserable conditions supposedly aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including food shortages, broken plumbing, widespread exhaustion, and plummeting morale…
Trump’s Kennedy Center Obsession Is Getting Embarrassing
Trump is finding new ways to fight old battles he’s already lost.…
Consumer-Centric AI: From Triage Dead End to Fully Integrated Clinical AI
"What patients need in these moments is an intelligent entity that has deep context about their health," Allon Bloch said.…
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs: A Swarm of Blood Robots . “I now have a comprehensive family tree, naming the very boats my Italian and Polish ancestors cam…
CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO — CXMT C…
The Google Pixelsnap Charger With Stand Is 50 Percent Off Right Now
Speedy Qi2 wireless charging in a magnetic puck and stand combo makes Google’s Pixelsnap well worth grabbing at half price.…
Call centres using AI to 'whiten' Indian accents (2025)
The world’s biggest call centre company is using artificial intelligence to “neutralise” Indian accents for Western customers.…
‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm
82-year-old Ida Huddleston calls the Kentucky data center project a 'scam.'…
Trump administration order would upend nation’s childhood vaccine schedule
The president signed an order advising states to revise their rules. He also called for narrowing which vaccines are administered to children and splitting shots into multiple appo…
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK…
Zuckerberg announces $1 billion data center fund in plan to bring superintelligence to everyone
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out an ambitious vision for artificial superintelligence, arguing that the technology should be broadly distributed rather than concentrated in the ha…
Trump Shrugs Off A.I. and Data Center Concerns as Voters Grow Anxious
The president and his top aides have been especially bullish about data centers, despite national blowback against the facilities.…
AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans
Political resistance is growing to new AI developments…
Ascentiz launches consumer exoskeletons for hiking and running — and theyre up to $400 off
Your legs, but with a firmware update.…
Portland’s mall rink was this couple’s ‘happy place.’ They were its last skaters.
One couple became synonymous with the ice rink at Portland's downtown mall. They skated their for the last time Saturday.…
Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent
Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify as more arrests are being made — almost 40 arrested this year in backlash to AI factory buildout
A coalition of community residents, local politicians, and grassroots organisers are pushing back.…
London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up
The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25…
Centrist Democrats dismiss Abdul El-Sayed as a freak radical. Do they want to win in 2028 or not? | Nesrine Malik
Americans want someone on their side in the fight against sordid interests – that means politicians like the Michigan primary winner and Zohran Mamdani, says Guardian columnist Nes…
AI gone wild: What recent ‘rogue AI’ really means
Big tech calls for the U.S. Government to help them put on the brakes after troubling escapes…
US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)
By Shane Burke / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Sometimes, Learning Begins With Being Bored
At 11 years old, I refused a smartphone-not because my parents said no, but because I was afraid I would become addicted.I couldn't really explain my hesitation at the time. I simp…
Amazons new Texas AI data center will include massive amounts of air pollution
Of course it does.…
Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases
Company insists it remains committed to 2040 net-zero carbon emission goals…
The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse
The scandals of the president’s first term now seem quaint.…
Runware Squeezes A 1MW AI Data Center Into A 20-Foot Shipping Container
Runware launches Sonic Inference Pods, modular 1MW AI data centers in 20-foot shipping containers with 1,200 GPUs, closed-loop liquid cooling and no water consumption, targeting 1G…
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.…
Centrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years old despite agreeing to waive old arrears
Advocates and legal bodies want the debt to be made ‘out of bounds’ given how hard it is to determine its accuracy…
QVAC – Decentralized, Local AI in a Single API
QVAC is Tether’s answer to centralized AI, an entirely new paradigm where intelligence runs privately, locally, and without permission on any device. The era of Stable Intelligence…
An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
An Amazon-owned site in Pecos County, Texas, received a permit to release up to 33 million tons of CO2.…
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
By Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.…
How melatonin can mess with kids’ sleep — and may impact memory, learning and emotional development
Almost half of American parents give their kids melatonin to help them sleep. Could it actually be doing the opposite?…
Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit
The proposed architecture is a different proposition from the orbital AI data centers…
Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water?
Communities say AI is draining their water supplies, but the tech industry begs to differ. Gizmodo asked experts for their honest assessments.…
If Orbital Data Centers Take Off, Brace For Giant Rings In The Sky
Scientists are starting to visualize what these space-based data centers would look like over Earth when they'd occupy a special 'sun synchronous orbit,' potentially creating massi…
Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
By Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing
Seems like they got the message.…
Weather tracker: central and western Europe brace for more sweltering heat
High 30s celsius forecast for France, Spain and Italy next week, before affecting Germany, Poland and Czechia…
US cities expand cooling centers but struggle to get people inside
More air-conditioned spaces are open during extreme heat, but distance, stigma and risk perception keep many away…
MSI's magnificent 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor returns to its lowest-ever price of $599 — save $130 on the MAG 321UPXB, the perfect 240Hz upgrade
OLED color combined with a detailed 4K resolution…
How a neighborhood in NYC became the center of democratic socialist power
The divisions in Astoria, Queens, foreshadow the tensions that can emerge as more progressive candidates win elections across the country.…
Port Washington ready for ‘once in a lifetime shot’ as they drive toward Little League World Series dream
Never in its 63-year history has the Port Washington Little League been crowned New York State champs — until this once-in-a-generation group of boys came around.…