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The Verge reported SoftBank disclosed the donation in response to a June letter from Sens. Warren and Blumenthal and Rep. Stansbury raising bribery concerns. Two months after the gift, SB Energy announced a public-private partnership at the DOE's Portsmouth, Ohio site, the former gaseous diffusion plant now branded PORTS Technology Campus, planned for a 10 GW data center plus up to 10 GW of new generation including 9.2 GW of natural gas.
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Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceab...
The WSJ reported, and Reuters picked up on August 14, that Nvidia more than halved the financial guarantee it may extend for OpenAI's Ohio data center after investors raised concerns about risk exposure (Hacker News). Nvidia is now expected to guarantee only the project's firs...
Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" on September 12. Altman and Musk agreed within hours. Hassabis called the direction correct. By Monday morning the market had priced it. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.5% and S&P 500 futures 0.8%. Nvidia dropped 3%, AMD 5.7%, and A...
- Source: CNBC - Date: 2026-02-12 Anthropic donated $20 million to Public First Action, supporting political candidates who advocate for AI regulation across both parties. This comes as the Trump administration's December 2025 executive order proposes federal preemption of sta...
The Verge reports OpenAI proposed handing the government roughly 5% of its equity against its $852B March valuation via an Alaska Permanent Fund-style vehicle, and wants other leading labs to do the same. Trump called public ownership stakes "a beautiful thing" in June. This i...
The Verge reports Anthropic's situation deteriorating two weeks after it took its Mythos-class models offline following a Friday-evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, negotiations still unresolved. Paired with the GPT-5.6 gating, state involvement in which frontier...
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