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Local counties hitting pause on data centers as Trump seeks to outpace China in AI race
A trend that has left industry representatives unhappy.
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OpenAI executive complains about Kimi, berates open-weight AI models, invites mockery
David Sacks, who is close to US President Donald Trump, has called Ball’s proposals “unacceptable.”
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Urban Japan pushes back against new data centers
Japan joins the global backlash against data centers in urban areas.
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Head of US AI safety agency resigns
Hugging Face breach reveals why defenders need their own AI models on standby
"This one was different from anything we'd handled before."
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Backlash against data centers in the US grows
It's getting both personal and national.
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European Parliament launches its own AI platform, but it uses American models
It’s called EPGenAI Hub.
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Hut 8 signs $9.8 billion AI data center lease
Former crypto company fully commercializes Texas campus.
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Spanish company runs EU-banned facial recognition technology in India
Banned at home, European surveillance tech finds markets abroad.
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DeepSeek and Alibaba launch fresh assaults on frontier AI
Two of China's biggest AI labs spent the weekend taking aim at frontier models.
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Musk's SpaceX could become the Pentagon's next AI provider
The move could deepen the military’s reliance on Musk's services – with critics raising concerns
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Chinese startup Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, challenging Anthropic
The open AI model is freely downloadable and customizable.
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China shaken by a wave of AI girlfriend and boyfriend breakups
Users are devastated as AI companions are incompatible with the new Chinese rules.
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Removed AI watermark? You may soon find yourself in a Greek prison
Yet another rather controversial proposal in Greece.
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South Korea sees its first criminal case involving cheating with smart glasses
“Pervert glasses” are now coming to exam sites.
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Musk’s Colossus 2 data center is suffocating Black communities
The facility will pump tons of cancer-causing gases every year.
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German consortium releases Soofi S, the top-ranked open-source AI model
Germany enters the AI race.
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Fastmail launches EU-hosted email service with Amsterdam data center
Businesses and organizations are seeking greater certainty about where their data is stored.
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Doctor Claude? Anthropic’s chatbot fakes medical credentials
Call me Dr. Claude Sage.
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Majority of Americans want the government to own half of AI companies
Americans favor aggressive economic interventions when it comes to regulating AI.
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