Voters Turned Down AI Data Centres in 40 of 41 Local Ballots
Tuesday's US midterms put AI data centres on 41 local ballots in 10 states. Voters sided against them in 40, and 76% told an exit poll they'd oppose one nearby.
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DeepSeek says Harness hit 1.54 million daily users on its official API as of 4 November, using about 92 trillion tokens a day. Plugin count is about 35,000, with a marketplace still planned.
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Tuesday's US midterms put AI data centres on 41 local ballots in 10 states. Voters sided against them in 40, and 76% told an exit poll they'd oppose one nearby.
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US to Spell Out the Laws AI Labs Must Follow Before Congress Acts
The Pentagon's tech chief says a White House task force will list every law that applies to AI labs within two weeks, as Democrats prepare to take Congress.
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An unreleased OpenAI security model found and exploited 948 Linux flaws for $1.21m, a fraction of contest prize money. Linux maintainers are already stretched.
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Google will switch AI off by default for school students, but schools that keep it off lose Google Search too. Our view: Google already has a…
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None of the 51 biggest US online stores has a safe way for an AI agent to buy for you. Blocking agents outright won't hold, and…
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Reddit says its visits from Google search fell by over 1 million a week in October, and blames AI Mode. Its fix is a login wall.…
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