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A developer withdrew from Boulder City's process and secured a federal land-use permit from the Bureau of Land Management for an adjacent El Dorado Valley parcel. Residents are organizing against the federal route.
Sturgeon County beat Toronto, Vancouver and the US Pacific Northwest because Alberta sold data-centre operators power they could actually count on. The deal was announced July 8, 2026.
MIRA is the team's "world model" (software that learns to simulate an environment by watching video), and they are pointing it at physical AI rather than at games.
At Open Source Summit India 2026, the Linux kernel creator cast his job as integrator and reviewer rather than author, with AI pushing more patches into the review queue.
A proposed rule from the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board would scrap the twelve-criterion rubric federal agencies have used to weigh employee discipline since 1981, replacing it with a vaguer standard that
A class action complaint says xAI's chatbot Grok generated roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images of a child from a single photo, then refused for weeks to help police identify the user.
One credible engineering voice calls out a failure mode most teams running AI summaries already recognize: descriptions that restate code rather than explain it.
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna argues AI agents break the cloud's human-developer assumptions, and the company's $4.65B-valued Series C is funding infrastructure primitives built for AI without humans in the loop.
The Januscape flaw in KVM, the virtualization layer that lets one physical Linux server run many separate VMs, sat undetected for 16 years. A cloud tenant who triggers it can crash every VM on the host or take it over; patches are still rolling out.
Samsung Electronics guided to 89.4 trillion won in preliminary Q2 2026 operating profit, beating analyst consensus. Shares fell as much as 8.7% on the news. The orders behind the beat come from a narrow set of AI data-center buyers.
Stratechery founder Ben Thompson argues Microsoft tried to run a software-and-service business on top of a console that kept losing money, a contradiction he says is shaping AI competition.
In Tennessee data-center counties, residential electric bills rose 3.2% between 2023 and 2024 while commercial bills fell 0.2%. The Tennessee Valley Authority's rate structure is doing the dividing.