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China's Green Power Efforts for AI Data Centres Meet Challenges: China's initiative to enhance renewable energy usage for its growing AI data centre sector is encountering obstacles, with experts citing difficulty in forecasting peak demand and concerns from grid operators about added risk. Link

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Critiques AI Power Dynamics: Satya Nadella argues that AI giants should not dominate the economy without accountability, stressing the need for society's consent and a healthier balance of power in AI. Link

Bridging the Gap: The Need for AI Governance: As AI accelerates automation, the urgency for effective governance grows. Clear objectives must guide AI deployment to prevent costly errors at scale. Link

Bipartisan Scrutiny Intensifies Around AI Data Centers: Political resistance to data centers tied to AI is growing across party lines, raising doubts about how durable support for AI infrastructure will be. Link

States

AI Super PAC Struggles to Influence the Debate: The AI-focused super PAC Leading the Future has failed to gain traction against regulatory efforts, underscoring the gap between tech industry priorities and public sentiment. Link

Vermont Bans AI-Only Therapy and Tightens Data Broker Rules: Vermont enacted new laws prohibiting AI-only mental health services while increasing data broker fees and expanding disclosure requirements. Link

Michigan Lawmakers Eye Tough New Data Center Rules: State Senator Mallory McMorrow is preparing legislation that could impose some of the country’s strictest regulations on data centers in response to mounting operational concerns. Link

Another City in Nevada Weighs Pause on New Data Center Permits: Officials in Henderson are considering a temporary halt on new data center approvals as they review AI-driven electricity demand and environmental impacts. Link

Texas Land Dispute Highlights AI Infrastructure Pressure: A conflict over a land deal has evolved into a broader fight over how AI infrastructure is reshaping local property dynamics and community priorities. Link

Virginia Counties Diverge on Data Center Growth: Loudoun and Prince William Counties are taking sharply different approaches to data center development as AI-driven demand for computing infrastructure continues to rise. Link

Senator Reveals Anthropic's Mythos Model Breached U.S. Classified Systems Within Hours: According to testimony relayed to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Anthropic’s Mythos model allegedly broke into nearly every classified system run by the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command within hours. Link

OpenAI Develops Deployment Simulation Technique for AI Safety: OpenAI has introduced a deployment simulation method designed to test models before real-world release and surface hidden behaviors earlier in the safety process. Link

Tesla's Megapod Trademark Signals Entry into AI Data Center Market: Tesla has filed a trademark for "Megapod," signaling a push into AI data center hardware and a potential new front in competition around AI infrastructure. Link

China's AI Moment Challenges America's Dominance: A new model emerging from China is prompting a reassessment of the competitive balance in AI and raising fresh questions about whether the U.S. lead is sustainable. Link

Nebius Group Secures $2 Billion Investment from Nvidia: Nvidia has committed $2 billion to Nebius Group to expand AI data center capacity, while Nebius subsidiary Avride is also moving forward with Uber in robotaxis and delivery robots. Link

AI Inference Infrastructure Attracts $1.8B in 48 Hours: Investors poured $1.8 billion into AI inference and world model startups in two days, highlighting how capital is shifting toward model serving and infrastructure as foundation models commoditize. Link

AI Agents Teach Robots to Install GPUs with 99% Success Rate: NVIDIA's AI coding agents trained robots on real hardware to perform tasks like GPU installation and pin sorting with a 99% success rate, showing rapid progress in physical AI. Link

Navigating AI Layoffs: A Shift Towards Specialized Skills: Recent AI-related layoffs reflect how companies are restructuring around infrastructure, cloud, and specialist talent rather than simply cutting back on AI ambitions. Link

University of Sydney's Cogniti Now Available on Microsoft Marketplace: The University of Sydney has launched its AI education platform, Cogniti, on Microsoft Marketplace, giving educators tools to build course-specific AI agents for feedback and simulations. Link

Amazon Expands AI Marketing with Sponsored Prompts Ads: Amazon is rolling out AI-powered Sponsored Prompts across the open web, extending conversational advertising beyond its own properties. Link

AI Superintelligence by 2030? Sam Altman Thinks So: Sam Altman says GPT-5 is already smarter than he is and predicts AI could surpass human intelligence by 2030, while rivals argue the milestone may arrive even sooner. Link

HSBC Partners with Google Cloud for AI Deployment: Google Cloud is bringing its Gemini AI platform to HSBC in a multi-year partnership aimed at delivering 200 use cases across the bank within two years. Link

Satya Nadella Proposes New AI Strategy Focused on Cost and Trust: Nadella is calling for an AI reset centered on lower-cost models, user choice, stronger data control, and public trust as Microsoft broadens its Copilot strategy. Link

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