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The Energy Department plans to use a 1950 defense law for up to $200 million in power line upgrades, $150 million of it for a new line in Alaska.
Neither project has signed a final agreement or spent a dollar yet.
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China launched National Data Group on Tuesday, a state enterprise tasked with powering AI development.
Its launch announcement names no datasets, customers or prices.
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Nscale is negotiating a $45 billion deal with Anthropic for its West Virginia campus, adding to $44.6 billion already agreed.
The deal could widen the $11 billion gap between Nscale's IPO valuation ask and what investors will pay.
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Meta paused sharing on its Muse chatbot after a security firm found 6,800 shared chat links in a DNS database.
No login was needed, and their titles revealed loan papers, fraud alerts and confidential notes.
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New York’s consumer agency wants every chatbot to offer a one-step switch to a human, enforced by fines up to $3,500.
The draft never says how quickly that human has to show up.
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Prosecutors allege a Saudi royal repeatedly asked a former OpenAI engineer, charged with bugging its offices, when he would quit.
The detention memo does not say why.
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An F-22 pilot sent tactical orders to an Anduril Fury drone in flight, the Air Force said October 16.
What happens when one pilot must direct several, or when the data link comes under attack, remains untested.
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Planned U.S. fossil-fuel capacity, nearly all gas, jumped 45% in six months to 68 gigawatts.
How much of that pipeline is being built for data centers is far murkier.
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Samsung and SK Hynix shares dropped more than 4% Monday after DeepSeek called its new model a minor update.
Chip suppliers' own forecasts still point to double-digit growth next quarter.
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TSMC and ASML guided for double-digit Q4 revenue growth on Oct. 14-15, days before DeepSeek's release and this week's chip selloff.
ALT Chart: Chip suppliers guided to double-digit growth in Q4, before DeepSeek's release. Guided Q4 2026 revenue range as % growth over reported Q3 2026 revenue; TSMC and ASML, guidance issued Oct 14–15, 2026. Source: TSMC 3Q26 earnings call transcript; ASML Q3 2026 results release; Vector calculations
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Homeland Security has ordered civilian agencies to purge DeepSeek, including products built on its models by federal contractors.
The order took effect in July; its scope over contractors only became public this week.
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A new PAC has spent $1.41 million attacking four House Republicans over AI.
The polling behind the bet does not show the message moves a single vote.
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Brad Smith asked the AI industry in Dublin on October 14 for independent testing of AI models and transparency about what evaluators find.
Much of what he wants has been EU law since 2024.
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FERC rejected PJM's plan to curtail new data centers ahead of paid demand-response customers.
States now must decide which to protect first as 30 gigawatts of data-center demand arrives by 2030.
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China's commerce ministry has drafted rules adding 40 technologies, 23 of them AI, to its export-control list.
Selling access to a model stays open; handing over the model itself may not.
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Anthropic has pitched lawmakers a federal AI bill limiting model suspensions to harms above $1 billion or 50 deaths.
The draft would also override state laws Anthropic itself helped pass.
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Microsoft has reportedly exited Nscale's planned Loughton, Essex data center, days after Nscale filed for a New York listing.
About $100 billion of Nscale's contracted value sits in capacity not yet active.
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Anthropic reviews 100,000 agent transcripts weekly, but only 50 ever reach a human.
Nearly a third of businesses spend six-plus hours weekly minding their agents.
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Anthropic has proposed handing 5% of its shares to a fund it would own outright.
Who controls it, who qualifies and whether the pledge can be undone remain unanswered.
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Sherrod Brown's billboard attacks data centers; Jon Husted vows the industry will pay its own power costs in Ohio's Senate race.
Both moves poll well, but who ultimately pays remains undecided.
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Among voters who view data centers unfavorably, 28% cite electricity costs as their main objection, nearly double the next closest reason, water use.
ALT Chart: Electricity costs lead objections among data-center skeptics. Main reason cited, % of respondents unfavorable toward data centers; online survey, Sept. 10–14, 2026. Source: Rainey Center, September Policy Survey (1,004 registered voters overall; unfavorable subgroup size not published)
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