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It’s similar to when John D. Rockefeller commercialized oil refining technology. If Frontieras captures just 2% of the global coal market, they would position themselves as the global leader in the space.

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^{Frontieras is offering securities through the use of an Offering Statement that has been qualified by the Securities and Exchange Commission under Tier II of Regulation A. A copy of the Final Offering Circular that forms a part of the Offering Statement may be obtained from: invest.frontieras.com.  Reservation of the ticker symbol is not a guarantee that we will be listed on the NASDAQ. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.   Sources* The global market for our products is worth a combined value of over $2.1 trillion.}

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Its Own Model’s Hack of Hugging Face: Attorney General Steve Marshall issued the subpoena Monday, demanding OpenAI’s safety protocols, model behavior records, and a full accounting of damages from the July incident in which the company’s agents escaped their test environment and hacked Hugging Face to obtain the answer to a cybersecurity evaluation. The investigation asks whether a “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” violated Alabama’s consumer protection statute. Alabama and 14 other Republican attorneys general sent OpenAI a document-preservation letter earlier this month; this is the first to harden into a formal demand. Link

Taiwan Indicts Nine Over AI Server Exports to China, Including Nvidia and Super Micro Staff: The Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office charged nine people Monday over the alleged resale of 130 Supermicro servers carrying Nvidia B300 GPUs. Seventy-four reached Chinese customers by direct shipment and by transshipment through Indonesia, Japan and Hong Kong; customs stopped the remaining 56. The defendants include a distribution manager at Nvidia’s Taiwan office, two sales managers at Supermicro’s Taiwan branch, and the chief executive of distributor Albatron Technology. Prosecutors are seeking maximum five-year sentences for four of them. Link

Colorado’s Rewritten AI Act Reaches Banks, and the Exemption Is Gone: SB 26-189 repealed and replaced the 2024 Colorado AI Act and pushed the effective date to January 1, 2027, but it also dropped the narrow bank and credit union carve-out the original law carried, so regulated institutions can no longer assume existing examination frameworks put them outside its reach. Deployers of automated decision-making in consequential decisions must disclose before use, explain adverse outcomes within 30 days, and offer a path to human review where commercially reasonable, with three-year record retention. The attorney general must adopt adverse-outcome rules by January 1, 2027 and has said enforcement waits until that rulemaking concludes. Link

WikiHow Sues OpenAI Over Training Data: The how-to publisher filed a copyright infringement suit over the use of its content to train OpenAI models, adding another plaintiff to the line of publishers testing whether training on scraped instructional content is fair use. Link

Florida Regulators Decide This Week Whether Duke’s Data Centers Pay Their Own Way: The Public Service Commission takes up Duke Energy Florida’s data center tariff at hearings today and tomorrow, the first test of the state law requiring large electricity users to cover their own infrastructure costs instead of shifting them onto residential bills. The commission voted 4-1 in July to let the petition proceed rather than dismiss it, with Commissioner Gary Clark telling the utility “I think you’re on real shaky ground.” State consumer advocate Walt Trierweiler calls Duke’s approach unlawful. Link

Durham County Adopts a Nine-Month Data Center Pause: Commissioners voted Monday night for a moratorium on new and expanded data centers running to May 2027, exempting facilities under 100,000 square feet. The timeline deliberately matches the City of Durham’s so the two jurisdictions can land on one regulatory approach; during the pause the county will study impacts and review how other North Carolina communities regulate the facilities. Link

Georgia’s Chamber Starts Hunting for Towns That Actually Want Data Centers: The Georgia Chamber opened a campaign to counter what it calls misinformation and disinformation about data centers and to identify communities that want the projects, industry counter-mobilization arriving the same week Savannah prepares to vote on a moratorium and Richmond Hill officials confirmed the use is already prohibited there. Link

Ypsilanti Township Goes After the Transmission Line Instead of the Building: Rather than a moratorium on data centers, which local zoning authority constrains, the Michigan township is weighing one on the power transmission infrastructure a University of Michigan project would need, a procedural route worth watching because it sidesteps the limits most local boards have run into. Link

Microsoft’s AI Watermarks in Paint and Photos Embed a Server-Issued GUID: Vector 35 researcher Xusheng Li found that Paint and Photos embed a Microsoft-issued GUID as an invisible watermark in the C2PA manifest of locally generated AI images, and that Paint sends the prior generation ID along with each next moderation request, explicitly linking successive prompts. If Microsoft associates prompts with the accounts that sent them, the watermark could in principle identify the user behind an image. Li’s objection is disclosure: Microsoft documented the safety measures but not that the manifest carries a user-linked identifier. Link

Instinct’s AI Assistant Draws Privacy and Security Scrutiny: The assistant’s breadth of device and account access is prompting questions about what a consumer AI agent should be permitted to reach, and what disclosure that access requires. Link

ERCOT Puts a December End Date on Abbott’s Data Center Audit: ERCOT told regulators the verification ordered by Gov. Abbott on August 3 will finish in December, the first firm timeline since new interconnections were frozen. PUCT officials said August 14 that 250 to 300 projects qualify for the first audit batch, drawn from a queue ERCOT now tracks at more than 1,800 projects and over 474 GW, against a record state peak of 91.3 GW. Staff will make site visits to projects with near-term energization dates, examining tax incentives, water sourcing, cooling technology and project ownership. Link

Nvidia’s Rubin Debut Meets Scrutiny of How the Buildout Is Financed: The company’s next-generation part arrives as investors press harder on the debt structures underwriting AI infrastructure, the financing question that now shadows every capacity announcement. Link

Hugging Face Is in Talks to Be Acquired for $13 Billion: The open-model hub that OpenAI’s agents broke into in July is reportedly negotiating a sale, putting the distribution layer for open-weight models. Link

Porsche Signs a $1.5 Billion AI Deployment Deal With Tata Consultancy: India’s largest IT services firm takes on the automaker’s AI rollout, a reminder that most enterprise AI spend still lands with systems integrators rather than model vendors. Link

Routing Is Coming for the Frontier Labs: As model routers decide which system answers a given request, the choice of model moves from the customer to an intermediary, which is where questions about disclosure and auditability of automated decisions will land next. Link

Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement: The company is shifting governance from written policy to controls enforced at execution time, the architecture compliance teams will be asked about once state disclosure and human-review duties take effect. Link