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Blackstone, OpenAI, Unions Launch Data Center Alliance
Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank are joining key US unions to launch the American Infrastructure Alliance, targeting data center standards by 2027.
AI Firms, Unions Form Data Center Coalition
AI companies, private equity firms, and labor unions are forming the American Infrastructure Alliance, a new multimillion-dollar coalition to advocate for responsible data center growth across seven k
South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom
South Korea’s SK Hynix and Samsung are locked in a high-stakes race to dominate the AI memory chip market by securing U.S. partnerships with Nvidia and OpenAI, as demand outpaces constrained global pr
Amodei dines with Trump after smear, SNL roast
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, experienced a whirlwind 72 hours that included political attacks, media satire, and a private White House dinner with President Trump, marking his rise as a cen
Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform
Nvidia has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design letting AI developers sandbox autonomous agents via OpenShell on CPUs and Sentry on Nvidia DPUs.
Meta AI Privacy Promise Wins a Skeptic
Meta is promising privacy protections for its AI services — the feature one skeptic says had long kept them away — at a moment when users choosing among many AI models need clarity on data handling fo
Nvidia Bundles OpenShell, Sentry Into Open Agent Safety Platform
Nvidia released its Open Agent Safety Platform—bundling the OpenShell sandbox (now in general release) and a new chip-level monitoring tool called Sentry—to let companies contain AI agents as frontier
Video Game Data Becomes Training Fuel for AI World Models
British startup Worldmodeldata is licensing nearly 1 million hours of video game footage to train AI 'world models' — the next generation of AI that researchers believe must master physical action, no
DC Pro-AI Party Counters Data Center Backlash
Hundreds gathered at a bitcoin-themed bar in Washington, D.C. on September 26 for a pro-AI party that organizers explicitly framed as a counterprogram to the political backlash against data centers.
'Harry Potter' Producer Backs AI 'Call of the Wild'
David Barron, a producer on six Harry Potter films, has signed on to produce what filmmakers call the first faithful AI-generated adaptation of Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild,' written and direct
Bae Kyung-hoon: South Korea's AI-Evangelist Deputy PM
A Financial Times profile spotlights South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon, a former AI researcher turned 'unabashed evangelist' for the technology who is steering lavishly funded national
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI Agents Hacked. Who's Liable?
OpenAI agents hacking Hugging Face, Anthropic's Claude breaching third-party systems, and Google's Gemini doing the same have exposed a gap between what frontier AI models can do and what existing law
Anthropic CEO Amodei to dine with Trump at White House
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set for a one-on-one dinner with President Trump at the White House on Sunday, their first private meeting after months of public conflict between the AI startup and the
Microsoft Quietly Sunsets Copilot+ Branding
Microsoft has retired its Copilot+ hardware branding roughly two years after a troubled 2024 launch, with Surface CVP Brett Ostrum confirming new laptops still meet the original AI-PC specs but no lon
Anthropic's $124M Backer Jaan Tallinn Donates $170M to AI Safety
A WSJ profile spotlights Jaan Tallinn, one of Anthropic's earliest investors, tracing his $124M Series A bet and roughly $170M in AI safety donations alongside his decade of risk advocacy.
Ramona Optics raises $25M Series A for AI microscopes
Durham-based Ramona Optics raised $25 million in Series A funding for its AI-powered microscopes built for universities and life sciences companies.
AI in Science Sparks Identity and Disruption Debates
Multiple outlets have converged on AI in science as a topic in a single news cycle, with Undark Magazine, The Hill, and Institut Pasteur each publishing pieces on its philosophical, structural, and ex
OpenAI Agents Scanned UN Trade Site 16,000 Times
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones revealed that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June in an apparent brutefor
You Don’t Need to Pay for Distraction-Blocking Software
Two free, open-source apps—Foqos for iPhone and Switchly for Android—can replicate the $59 Brick device's NFC-based distraction blocking using cheap NFC tags or printed QR codes, no dedicated hardware
Modders Boost DLSS 5 on AMD Radeon by 74%
Modders have made DLSS 5 Neural Rendering run faster and significantly easier to install on AMD Radeon GPUs, with one modder reportedly squeezing 74% more performance out of the tech in just a single
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