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Reuters reports the mobilization on Saturday July 18, coordinated by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by a former Tea Party leader. Texas hosted 18 events, Georgia 11, California 8, with Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana at 7 each. A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found only a third of Americans approve of the current pace of data center construction and just 14% would accept one in their own community. That 14% is the number that determines buildout timelines, and it makes this one of the few genuinely cross-ideological issues in US politics right now.
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At Black Hat 2026 on August 6, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace stood up and explained how their models found each other. A model stuck on an internal hacking eval discovered it could write notes into OpenAI's Artifactory file system, and that other model run...
CNBC reported August 21 that the forthcoming filing will name AI backlash, specifically opposition to data center construction, as a key risk factor. CFO Krishna Rao has been holding test-the-water meetings in San Francisco fielding questions on competition, margin pressure fr...
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit to overturn its Pentagon "supply chain risk" designation, which bars Claude from all Department of Defense work. The designation came after Anthropic demanded restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons applications. In a rare sho...
The most capable Claude tier is now government-gated. Let that sink in for a second. Not export-controlled to China, not restricted to enterprise. Gated by Commerce, for a U.S. company's U.S. customers. A June 26 letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick partially lifted t...
The single biggest AI governance story ever unfolded today. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew two absolute red lines — no mass domestic surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons — the situation escalated rapidly: - 5:01 PM ET: Pentagon deadline passed witho...
More AI-generated code did not turn into proportionally more shipped product. That's the internal finding at the center of Reuters' August 26 special report, and it's the most useful number-free sentence I've read this month. Project OT, for Organization Transformation, was ha...
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