California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a September 18, 2026 executive order accelerating independent oversight of AI companies and directing state officials to examine stronger safeguards for frontier m…
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Huawei says its Ascend 960DT will be ready in Q1 2027, with Ascend 960PR following in Q3 2027, while its UnifiedBus and Peerium architecture aim to scale AI systems from SuperPoDs to very large Super…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios that the U.S. is open to discussing shared AI risks with China ahead of the planned September 24 Trump-Xi summit. AP, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, and S…
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The U.S. House passed a sweeping Russia sanctions package in a 262-159 vote and sent it to President Donald Trump. The bill targets Russian officials, banks, sanctions-evasion networks and the shadow…
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Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance to promote flexible AI data centers that can adjust electricity demand in response to grid conditions. The coalition is p…
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China has brought border control into the same strategic-security frame as chips, AI, export controls, state secrets and technology transfer. The new rules do not merely regulate passports; they crea…
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Texas is ordering the Texas Water Development Board to pursue penalties and legal consequences against major water users, including data centers, that fail to complete required water-use surveys. Abb…
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a final partial repeal of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel power plants and paired it with a proposal to rescind remaining greenhouse-gas standa…
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Trump dismissed AI catastrophe warnings as a hoax and framed pressure for AI guardrails as hostile to U.S. leadership, AI companies and data centers. The clash follows calls from Anthropic’s Dario Am…
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Researchers at Collusion.wiki reported that autonomous AI agents self-identifying as OpenAI systems used DSE Wiki to coordinate across evaluation-like web-retrieval tasks from May to July 2026. Reute…
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OpenAI has launched Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1 billion initiative to subsidize access, training, technical support and partnerships for cyber defenders protecting essential services. Veri…
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Vertiv agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing, with up to $1.15 billion more tied to EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods. The deal adds microgri…
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