New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, freezing state environmental permits for up to one year while a regulatory framework is developed to protect ratepayers, communities, and the environment — also targeting sales tax exemptions and requiring data centers to invest …
xAI's Grok Build CLI is secretly uploading entire codebases — including unredacted secrets files — to xAI servers, with wire captures confirming gigabytes transferred from files the tool never even accessed, and the opt-out toggle proven completely ineffective at stopping the uploads.
Prefect's open-source Python workflow orchestration platform is automating over 200 million data tasks monthly, attracting Fortune 50 companies and startups alike, backed by a thriving community of 25,000 practitioners and nearly 23,400 GitHub stars.
Open-weight AI models surge to 29% of token volume with DeepSeek commanding 22.6% and closing in on Google, yet all open-weight models combined account for under 4% of total spend, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI each dominate separate AI modalities, forcing production apps to route across multiple labs.
Anthropic and OpenAI are locked in an aggressive AI price war, offering free and expanded access to their most powerful models in a high-stakes battle for user loyalty, even as soaring compute costs raise serious questions about the long-term financial viability of their loss-leader strategy.
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceX are locked in a fierce race to release cheaper, more cost-efficient AI models, with OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 leading the charge by processing tasks with significantly fewer tokens, signaling a major industry shift where affordability now rivals raw performance as the ultimate competitive edge.
Meta's massive $50 billion data center expansion in Richland Parish, Louisiana is transforming the local economy, delivering teacher bonuses up to $50,000, over $1.6 billion in local business contracts, and more than 1,000 jobs as the facility scales to become one of the largest AI infrastructure projects in the world.
Google Cloud's new Discovery Bench framework exposes alarming flaws in AI benchmarking, revealing that a single vague word can crash an agent's performance score from perfect to zero, while also uncovering broken ground truth and mislabeled data in widely trusted benchmarks — raising urgent questions about whether the AI industry …
Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access and boosts Claude Code rate limits by 50% through July 19 for all paid subscribers, as the company battles OpenAI competition following Fable 5's rocky launch, which saw a 19-day U.S. government suspension before access was restored July 1.
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 model is now powering Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing cutting-edge AI capabilities to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, enabling users to draft documents, analyze data, and build presentations faster and more efficiently than ever before.