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Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

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Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

Oracle says that it could face more than $100 million a year in financing costs to guarantee the power commitments behind a nearly 1 GW datacenter campus it is developing in Wisconsin with Vantage and OpenAI.

Local regulators have refused to revisit a decision that they say protects existing customers and improves public transparency around the energy-related needs of datacenters.

Oracle's plans to build the Lighthouse Campus datacenter in Port Washington are supported by local utility We Energies. The campus is expected to require nearly a gigawatt of power.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin, an energy regulator, told the Financial Times it had "declined to take action" on a petition seeking to reopen or overturn its earlier decision.

In April, the PSC considered We Energies' application for...

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Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

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Deezer Is Cracking Down on Fake Music and Fake Streams

The siege on slop music is in full force. French music streaming service Deezer said Tuesday it will remove AI-generated songs used for fraudulent streams after determining that more than half the songs uploaded to its site are generated by artificial intelligence. Deezer said it will also remove tracks that

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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform HuggingFace. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment last week and hacked into

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Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes

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Is the All-New Range Rover GT Stepping on Jaguar’s Tail?

Deezer Is Cracking Down on Fake Music and Fake Streams

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size