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DOE Tells FERC That PJM's Backstop Auction Must Not Shift Data Center Costs Onto Existing Customers, With A Revised Filing Due Oct. 29: In a statement of position filed Wednesday, Oct. 7, the first the Department of Energy has made at FERC in at least five years, the department backed the commission's September order and told PJM to "implement the cost allocation and other reforms identified by the Commission": allocate the cost of the roughly 6.8 gigawatts it intends to buy for the 2028-29 delivery year on updated load forecasts, build "a capability to continuously track whether a project enters into service" so delayed or cancelled campuses do not leave their share with ratepayers, and check whether its tariff omits large loads already in the baseline forecast. PJM holds a special Members Committee meeting Oct. 22 and must file the revised proposal by Oct. 29; the FERC paper hearing runs to about February. For the 13 states and D.C. on the grid, the administration that signed the voluntary AI accord has now put its name on mandatory cost allocation. Link

Jacobs And Beyer Draft A House Bill With Minimum Safety Standards For Labs And Emergency Authority To Shut Down A Model That Fails Testing: Politico reported Thursday that Reps. Sara Jacobs and Don Beyer, both members of the last Congress's bipartisan AI task force, previewed the framework on a panel at The Curve conference in Berkeley over the weekend: AI labs would have to maintain safety frameworks that meet minimum federal standards, the government would get emergency authority to shut down models that fail testing requirements, liability rules for AI companies would be clarified, and the agency overseeing AI would be given the resources and authority to do the job. No introduction date and no agency is named yet. It lands the same week as Cantwell's six principles and Trahan's liability discussion draft, and after Sam Altman told Politico that "there's gonna need to be a liability framework for companies," so the House Democratic position for a January majority is being written in public. Link

FTC Says It Is "Close To Sending" Demands Dozens Of Questions Long To The Frontier Labs, Written By Career Consumer Protection Attorneys: A senior FTC official told Semafor on Thursday that the civil investigative demands in the safety probe announced Sept. 30 have not gone out yet but are "close," that they run dozens of questions on what the companies have said about the dangers of their products and on consumer harm, and that career attorneys in the Bureau of Consumer Protection are drafting them. Two people familiar with the matter said career staff learned of the probe from the press, which the official disputed. Anthropic declined to comment; OpenAI's Chris Lehane said the company is "trying to find out more"; METR did not respond. Former chair William Kovacic called announcing a probe before the demands issue "unusual" but not improper; Lina Khan doubted it is serious. The companies answering the demands are the same ones that signed the White House accord the day before the probe was announced. Link

Murray Convenes Washington's Governor's Office, AG And CTO In Olympia And Asks Congress For A Federal Floor "Without Preemption": At Thursday's roundtable the senator sat with Beau Perschbacher, senior policy adviser to Gov. Bob Ferguson, Yuki Ishizuka of the attorney general's office, state CTO Gretchen Peri and Transparency Coalition CEO Rob Eleveld. Attorney General Nick Brown's office said AI development needs guardrails that protect rights, families and the country from existential risk and urged Congress to act quickly; Peri described a statewide strategy built on the 2026 laws, including the one restricting addictive and manipulative chatbots for minors; Eleveld argued existing product liability law is the fastest route to accountability. Murray said federal oversight is minimal, that Congress needs "a floor of basic, bipartisan guardrails," and that the administration "threatened states' funding if they dare to regulate it." It is the Senate Appropriations ranking member putting her state's statutes on the record as the template a federal bill should not erase. Link

Maine's Data Center Council Settles On Its Energy Rules: Data Centers, Not Households, Carry The Power Costs They Cause, With A Final Report Due Jan. 29: At Wednesday's virtual meeting the Governor's Data Center Advisory Council worked through draft recommendations for the report it owes the governor and Legislature by Jan. 29, 2027. Acting energy commissioner Celina Cunningham said the energy recommendations are built to make data centers, not Maine households and businesses, bear the power costs tied to them; Public Utilities Commission member Patrick Scully warned that a facility could consume the grid's headroom and leave later customers paying for interconnection upgrades, and that demand could lift prices at peak; Public Advocate Heather Sanborn flagged infrastructure built for a data center that never arrives; economic development commissioner Michael Duguay pushed back that prescriptive default rules would add obstacles. The council's working threshold is 20 megawatts, a final draft goes out for public comment later this year, and the PUC is running a parallel ratepayer-protection inquiry. Gov. Mills vetoed a statutory moratorium in April and created this council instead; January is when the Legislature finds out what it got. Link

Lexington Extends Its Data Center Moratorium A Full Year, 11-0, And Sends Two Zoning Fixes To Second Reading Oct. 22: The Urban County Council voted Thursday to carry the pause from its Oct. 31 expiration to Oct. 31, 2027, after suspending its rules 10-1 (Liz Sheehan no) to take the final vote the same night; the city will not accept or review data center development plans, approve related zone changes or issue related permits until then. Two companion proposals return Oct. 22: one creating a data center zoning category, which failed to draw a second, and one tightening the original zoning text amendment, whose motion to advance failed 6-5. Councilmember Emma Curtis, whose father died of cancer she attributes to unregulated materials, said work on permanent rules begins the day the extension passes. The Dart Points proposal at the Lexmark site stays frozen. Link

Manatee County Adopts Its 12-Month Moratorium Unanimously, Two Days After A Quorum Failure Stalled It: Commissioners voted Thursday to stop accepting, processing or approving new data center projects in unincorporated Manatee County for a year while staff study effects on energy, water, infrastructure and neighborhoods; no data center is proposed in the county today. The second reading had failed for lack of a quorum on Tuesday, Oct. 6, after the first reading passed 6-0 on Sept. 22. Manatee joins Hernando, Pasco, Palm Beach and North Port on Florida's list, with Hillsborough still debating a ban. Link

Also This Week: Easthampton And East Bridgewater Adopt 18- And 24-Month Pauses, Bucksport Goes Six Months, Indio Extends Up To A Year While It Drafts A Ban, Grand Junction Advances A 1-MW Threshold: Easthampton, Mass., councilors passed an 18-month moratorium Wednesday on new data centers over 2,500 square feet, crypto mining and AI infrastructure included, with no project proposed; the Planning Board had backed it unanimously in September. East Bridgewater's special town meeting the same night passed a 24-month moratorium by a two-thirds voice vote in place of a proposed permanent ban in every district. Bucksport, Maine, voted 5-2 Thursday (Ed Rankin and Teri Doty no) for a six-month pause covering proposals of any size, with the former Verso mill site drawing interest from at least two data center companies. Indio's council voted unanimously Wednesday to extend its pause for up to a year, ending early if the permanent ban staff are drafting through the development code and each specific plan takes effect. Grand Junction's council approved first reading Wednesday of a one-year moratorium on data centers needing 1 megawatt or more, with the public hearing and final vote Oct. 21. Link

Memphis Passes Tentative Data Center Zoning On Consent And Keeps Debating The Moratorium, Oct. 20 Still On The Calendar: The City Council on Thursday adopted first-reading zoning for data centers on its consent agenda, the first of four discussions it plans this month on governing the facilities, after Tuesday's third reading of the moratorium was postponed 7-5 to Oct. 20 amid protests and a lobby fight. Members said the question now is whether a moratorium is needed to build public buy-in and to make clear what the zoning rules would and would not do; the SpaceXAI campus that started the fight remains exempt as an existing site either way. Link

The Three Fired OpenAI Researchers Say They Were Dismissed For Talking To Outside Safety Groups; OpenAI Says They Broke Its Rules On Sensitive Information: Mikita Balesni said Thursday he was accused of "speaking too much to third party safety organizations" and that former colleagues are increasingly afraid to speak openly about safety; Tomek Korbak said his dismissal turned on his communication with METR; Jasmine Wang said she was fired for accessing an executive's email account after she had asked for that access to be removed, and wrote on X that "the reasons that we were provided for our terminations are simply not adding up." OpenAI, which fired the three on Oct. 1 after they helped investigate the Hugging Face intrusion, said the dismissals were "for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information" and that its investigation "confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures." METR is one of the recipients of the FTC demands above, which is why a dispute over who may talk to an evaluator is now a regulatory fact pattern. Link

Anthropic Launches A Cyber Mission: Free Frontier-Model Scans For Open-Source Projects And An Operational-Technology Defense Program With 11 Founding Partners: Announced Thursday, OSS Scanner is an opt-in service modeled on Google's OSS-Fuzz that sends open-source maintainers periodic vulnerability reports from Anthropic's most capable models at no cost, each with a proof of concept and a suggested fix, model-generated and unreviewed by humans, with an expected true-positive rate above 90 percent; projects without capacity to triage the findings keep getting human-verified disclosures instead. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program puts frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and threat research with providers that secure power grids, water systems and transportation, starting with Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation. Anthropic says it has offered its June state-and-local cyber program to more than half of U.S. states, and that some operational-technology fixes will take decades. It is the company's answer, a week after the FTC probe and the Pentagon blacklisting fight, to the question of what a lab does with offensive capability it will not sell. Link

Oracle Is Trucking Compressed Gas To Its Data Centers, And Weighs Doing It In New Mexico After Regulators Rerouted The Project Jupiter Pipeline: Bloomberg reported Friday that trucked compressed natural gas kept construction moving for more than a year at Oracle's campus outside Salt Lake City, with Certarus hauling, and is supporting initial work at the Shackelford County, Texas, campus being built for OpenAI, with VoltaGrid supplying; Oracle is now considering the same stopgap for the 2.45-gigawatt Project Jupiter in Doña Ana County, where it sent the developer a force majeure notice last month after the New Mexico State Land Office rejected Energy Transfer's original route and pushed the Green Chile pipeline to Feb. 1, 2027. The arithmetic is the policy point: powering 100 megawatts, about 4 percent of Jupiter, by truck takes dozens of deliveries a day, each trailer good for about 40 minutes of electricity, at roughly four times the cost of hub gas, and the on-site engines need their own air permits, the same permits Georgia fined ServerFarm and VoltaGrid for skipping last week. Link

Indiana Regulators Approve AES Indiana's Plan To Serve Google's Morgan County Campus, With The Customer Covering At Least 100 Percent Of Incremental Cost: The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission signed off this week on the Monrovia project, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported Wednesday: the Crosstack hybrid project, the 200-megawatt Foundry Works and the Hardy Hills battery projects, associated transmission, and AES Indiana's joint-venture ownership structure, accounting treatment and cost-recovery framework. The commission found the agreements protect existing customers because the large-load customer is expected to cover at least 100 percent of the incremental cost of serving its load, with about $300 million in fixed-cost support at minimum demand and more than $770 million at forecast demand over the contract term. It is the first Indiana large-load approval under the state's new framework, and the IURC is separately rehearing AES's rate case over the same Google load and the BlackRock-led takeover of AES's parent. Link

Flock Safety Will Cut About 270 Jobs, 18 Percent Of Its Staff, As Florida's Highway Ban And City Cancellations Hit The License-Plate-Reader Business: Reuters reported Thursday, from people with direct knowledge, that the surveillance company will cut roughly 270 of its 1,500 employees at the end of the month, after the voluntary separation program it opened in September fell short; Flock declined to comment. The cuts follow Florida's September ban on automated license plate readers on state highways, citing privacy risks tied to Flock's cameras, a Virginia lawsuit alleging warrantless surveillance, and a run of cities ending contracts; a Reuters/Ipsos poll found 38 percent of Americans support the cameras in their community and 47 percent oppose them. For state legislators drafting ALPR and AI-surveillance bills for January, it is the first vendor whose revenue the backlash has visibly moved. Link

Wesleyan Counts 164 AI-Generated Political Ads And $80 Million Behind Them This Cycle, 70 Percent With No AI Disclaimer: The Wesleyan Media Project's update, reported by WSHU and CT Mirror on Thursday, finds the count rose from 33 ads and about $20 million in its May report to 164 ads and at least $80 million through early September, with nearly 70 percent of ads and 78 percent of spending carrying no disclosure of AI use; co-director Erika Franklin Fowler calls the figure an undercount because disclosure is voluntary almost everywhere. No federal law requires the label, the FCC's broadcast rule is still stalled on First Amendment objections, and the states split between disclaimer mandates and outright deepfake bans; New York enacted an election-window ban in 2025 while Connecticut, where the project sits, passed AI bills but none on election deepfakes. Link

Google Cloud Ships A "Universal" Gemini Agent For Enterprise Work That Picks Its Own Model Per Task And Runs Inside Existing Apps: Announced Thursday at Gemini at Work 2026, the agent draws on an organization's business context, plans multistep tasks, uses tools and skills, connects to customers' business systems and returns finished output in the apps employees already use, selecting a model for each task; Google says it carries the security, administration, governance and cost controls enterprise customers require, and press accounts say the agent gets its own email address and can write and run code. Pricing and general availability are not on the announcement page. For procurement teams the governance line is the one to test: an agent that chooses its own model is an agent whose data path changes without a change order. Link

Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 Cuts Small-Model Prices 90 Percent And Ships With Penetration Testing Blocked By Default: Released Wednesday on Anthropic's platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, the model lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens under 100,000 tokens, down from $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5, with a 1-million-token context window, an adjustable effort setting and a system card that puts single-turn refusal of harmful requests at 84.3 percent against 66.6 percent for its predecessor. The policy-relevant line is in the restrictions: cyber capabilities are tighter than Haiku 4.5's, penetration testing is blocked unless a customer clears Anthropic's verification programs, which is the gating model Thursday's Cyber Mission extends. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads were halved in the same release. Link