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DatacenterDynamics reports that while data center construction is becoming operationally easier, building community trust and social acceptance remains a critical challenge for projects. Community resistance and permitting delays driven by trust deficits can significantly extend project timelines and increase costs despite technical feasibility.
Read original →Vice President JD Vance joined GOP leaders including Senator Jon Husted in Ohio to address concerns that data center expansion poses a political risk to the party's Senate seat prospects in the state. Data center projects are emerging as a significant electoral issue due to local energy and infrastructure concerns.
Read original →Anthropic has deployed Claude Mythos 5, its most powerful model, to run its Claude Security scanner for automated vulnerability detection in codebases, and is integrating the model into partner security products protecting critical infrastructure. This represents enterprise deployment of frontier AI models in cybersecurity, expanding the addressable market for advanced AI safety-critical applications.
Read original →Google's Pixel 11 Pro XL features improved cameras and new AI capabilities like Rambler but represents primarily an iterative hardware upgrade year-over-year. The review suggests incremental improvements alone may not drive upgrade cycles among existing Pixel users, potentially affecting handset replacement rates.
Read original →The Trump administration is allowing 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports tariff-free in response to elevated U.S. beef prices caused by cattle herd reduction. This tariff exemption on beef addresses domestic agricultural inflation but has no direct connection to AI, critical minerals, or technology supply chains.
Read original →Increasingly, AI agents are handling the nitty-gritty admin and due diligence tasks, but agent-powered marketplaces won't replace live human sales reps or engineers anytime soon.
Read original →Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations by mid-2027. This launch has been a long time coming, as Walmart was one of the last major retailers not to support Apple Pay or Google Pay. The retail giant even backed the launch of the short-lived CurrentC mobile payment service before rolling out Walmart Pay in 2016, which lets you quickly check out with a QR code at its stores. … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →Businesses have warned that Trump's new 50% duties could cripple their U.S. sales if they take effect.
Read original →The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]
Read original →Speculators on the prediction market platform think it's most likely that the cryptocurrency will end 2026 close to where it's now trading.
Read original →AI-enabled identity theft is getting too sophisticated to have predictable tells anymore, so experts recommend answering with a seemingly old-fashioned approach.
Read original →Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged infringers at issue." The subpoenas give Microsoft and Discord until September 4th to produce the requested information. The leaked clips have been watermarked by a person or group going by "CyberLeek," and they have shown what appears to be GTA VI prot … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Thursday that Washington will impose the "toughest sanctions in history" against Iran.
Read original →We tested the best big-screen tablets from Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and more, to help you choose the right one.
Read original →The project calls for the construction of two data center buildings, each with eight IT rooms
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