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Finland orders Google to stop clearing forest at two data centre sites

Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to stop work at two planned data centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani. The halt covers work that significantly changes the environment. The agency issued the order on Tuesday.

Tuike Finland Oy must stop at once, and by 23 October at the latest. The halt lasts until the environmental impact assessments (EIA) for both projects are complete.

The order covers tree felling, topsoil removal, digging, quarrying, crushing, moving soil, ditching and building site roads and storage areas. Planning, measurements, soil surveys and other minor work that is easy to reverse can go on. Tuike has until 14 October to explain itself in writing. The agency can follow up with enforcement measures, including a conditional fine.

“In our assessment, these measures change the environment and cause impacts that the EIA procedure is meant to identify and assess,” said Tommi...

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FLock.io Launches Qwen-powered, Open-Source Decision Model for Local Edge Deployment

FLock.io launches Qwen-powered, open-source decision model for local edge deployment.Built on Qwen3.5-2B, FLock.io and Oxford University researchers have launched an open-source AI decision model that outperforms Jev and larger LLMs in various benchmarking tests and can be deployed on local hardware to protect data privacy. It

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FINQ’s AI-Managed ETFs Return Up to 41.56%, Outperforming the S&P 500’s 10.96%

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to analyze markets, generate investment signals, and support portfolio decisions. FINQ is pursuing a more ambitious application: placing AI at the center of the investment process itself, with algorithms responsible for ranking stocks, selecting holdings, and determining portfolio weights. The asset management company reported

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Forgepoint Raises $9.8M From Primary and a16z Speedrun to Give Factories an AI Sales Team

America spent money on new factories at an annual rate of $171 billion in August 2026, according to US Census Bureau data, more than double the pace of 2021, yet many of the manufacturers meant to benefit from that boom can still make a part faster than they can send

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How I Discovered That Most of My Backtesting Decisions Were Coin Flips

This is a story about how I found out that most of the decisions in one of my research logs were coin flips, and about what I changed so that it wouldn’t happen again. In September 2026, I ran the same research model eleven times. The code, the data

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FLock.io Launches Qwen-powered, Open-Source Decision Model for Local Edge Deployment

FINQ’s AI-Managed ETFs Return Up to 41.56%, Outperforming the S&P 500’s 10.96%

Forgepoint Raises $9.8M From Primary and a16z Speedrun to Give Factories an AI Sales Team

How I Discovered That Most of My Backtesting Decisions Were Coin Flips