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Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a
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The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic
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Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported.
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The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security
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Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led
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* Update adds more Grok commands to Tesla models * Navigation can now learn recurring stops and plan routes accordingly * Improved parental controls for the rear screen have been added Tesla regularly releases major updates to its vehicles that bundle together a host of software upgrades that not only keep its fleet
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AI was supposed to level the playing field. So far it has done the opposite. The enterprises that already had the most resources are pulling further ahead, while the small businesses that stand to gain the most are still waiting for tools built for them and their workflows. The appetite
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* The White House wants to reallocate hundreds of billions of dollar worth of federal funding away from universities and peer reviewed research panels * The funding would instead go to individual scientists and AI-native laboratories * The credibility of the plan is undermined by the US government's track record on
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* New Sony FX5 is the successor to the FX3 compact cinema camera * A raft of upgrades include a new sensor, processor, battery and open gate recording * Pricing starts at £4,700 and availability is from August The industry's most popular compact cinema camera, the Sony FX3 from 2021,
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When a company teases its upcoming products so heavily — the Galaxy Z Fold 8 was the star of a Spider-Man: Brand New Day commercial a full week before today’s Samsung Unpacked for heaven’s sake — it can feel underwhelming when it’s actually revealed. But knowing that Samsung was
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Razer has launched an upgraded version of its popular USB-powered Seiren V3 Chroma microphone that now features a 32-bit digital signal processor (DSP) and AI processing. According to Razer, these upgrades enable studio-grade vocals without the hassle or complexity of configuring traditional audio rigs involving XLR interfaces, resulting in crisp,
