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A four-story Uptown office owner wants Oakland planners to sign a Letter of Determination that would let a ground-floor data and IT operation skip the public review hearing a conditional use permit would normally require.
China is now 1.5% of Microsoft's global revenue. The company isn't leaving because Chinese firms still need Western AI and cloud tooling for their overseas operations.
Stanford found the most popular AI detectors flag 61% of non-native English essays as machine-generated, yet universities still treat their scores as evidence of cheating.
Ontario proposes a new, higher electricity rate class for new data centers above 1 MW and bars them from cash incentives, framing AI demand as the grid's next cost problem.
A Penn State-led round-robin (multi-lab replication test) in Nature Catalysis made scientific AI's hidden amplifier visible: training on days of catalyst data to predict months of deactivation, the small noise between labs may compound across the
The 4,900 flaws, 85 of them critical, hit 390 open-source Bitcoin projects and were found by Chinese AI because U.S. acceptable-use policy blocks the prompts.
Amazon's three Calvert Cliffs data centers are dead, and the company's stated reason hides the actual cause. The mechanism is replicable, and three-quarters of Maryland already live under it.
Gov. Spanberger came to northern Virginia to oppose a statewide ban. Loudoun County, which already hosts roughly 250 data centers, says it cannot impose its own pause.
A new Amazon AGI paper says the field's FLOP-based budgeting rule can pick a design that costs several-fold more GPU-hours to train than the math predicted, sharpest for sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis wants a private, industry-funded AI safety body. Treasury Secretary Bessent is separately designing a public one.
Oracle's Exadata database-platform tier opens a $380-a-month entry into a category that used to start near $11,500. The mechanism is what to watch.
First-person video of skilled manual work, captured by India's informal labor, is becoming the physical layer of humanoid robot training. The wage reveals who sits at the bottom of the new AI supply chain.