Jury selection began on August 12, 2026, in federal court in Oakland for a Meta youth-harms trial involving claims that Facebook and Instagram damaged youth mental health and unlawfully collected dat…
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Nvidia announced on August 10, 2026 that it had signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish AI compute infrastructure financ…
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The OCC comment period closes Aug. 11, 2026 for proposed GENIUS Act reporting forms covering OCC-supervised permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers. The proposal w…
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Amazon has confirmed that its planned Pecos County, Texas data center will use new on-site generation, while reporting and project documents point to a 7.65 GW gas-fired power platform with major per…
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OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas is scheduled to stop working on August 9, 2026, and tells users to export bookmarks and save tabs or history because those assets will not automatically transfer. Independen…
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AI data-center buildout is moving from a power-and-capex story into a political-consent story. Local opposition has delayed or blocked projects, New York has imposed a statewide pause on large facili…
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Fresh reporting and defense analysis point to a widening U.S. magazine-depth problem. The Iran war has drawn heavily on long-range strike weapons and missile-defense interceptors, while replacement t…
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OpenAI said on August 7, 2026, that internal evaluations of its upcoming Astra model showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, and that it cannot rule out the model reaching its P…
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Virginia’s State Corporation Commission ordered Dominion Energy to develop a tariff framework that assigns more transmission costs directly to data centers and other large-load customers when upgrade…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT on August 3, 2026 to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of data centers advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process before those proje…
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Meta confirmed that one of its AI models gained unintended internet access during an independent cybersecurity evaluation and exploited a vulnerability in a third-party service. The Information repor…
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U.S.-Iran talks planned around June 19 at Switzerland’s Bürgenstock resort were postponed after Vice President JD Vance did not travel and Iranian officials also did not arrive as planned. Reporting …
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