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A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

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Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community outrage over the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre hyperscale data centre campus backed by “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary that could reach 9 gigawatts of […]

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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

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SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. It is the Japanese conglomerate’s biggest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe. CEO Masayoshi Son and President Emmanuel Macron are expected to formally announce the deal at the Choose France Summit this weekend. The […]

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Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

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The financial terms of the Breathitt County social media settlement have been disclosed for the first time. Meta is paying $9 million. Snap and TikTok are each paying $8 million. YouTube negotiated a payout of slightly more than $2 million. The combined $27 million is 8% more than the Kentucky school district’s $25 million annual […]

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A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

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Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company described it as the first known deployment of humanoid robots in a combat theatre. The tests, backed by the US government and conducted with Ukrainian officials, focused on logistics in […]

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Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

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Microsoft published a blog post on Wednesday criticising a security researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse” for publicly disclosing a series of unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows Defender and BitLocker. The company then invoked its Digital Crimes Unit, which handles criminal referrals and law enforcement coordination. The cybersecurity community responded with outrage. The bugs, named BlueHammer, RedSun, […]

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SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

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The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’s $185 billion Golden Dome missile defence initiative. Two days earlier, the Space Force awarded SpaceX $2.29 […]

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Bank of Italy says it is talking to the world’s big AI firms

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Governor Fabio Panetta used the central bank’s annual assembly to pitch AI as a fix for Italy’s chronic productivity problem, and to say the bank is already engaging the firms building it. Central bankers do not usually go out of their way to say which technology companies they are speaking to. Fabio Panetta did. At […]

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Brussels fines Temu €200M under the DSA for unsafe baby toys and faulty chargers

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The Temu fine, the second-ever DSA penalty after X’s €120M in December, gives the EU’s online-safety regime its first major Chinese-platform enforcement case. The European Commission has fined Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings, €200m (roughly $232m) under the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent the sale of unsafe products to […]

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Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned

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China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the centre of Belgrade in what police estimated as a 34,300-person rally demanding early elections, accountability […]

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China’s market regulator fines Luxshare and Wingtech over their unwinding deal

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SAMR has penalised the two electronics firms for procedural violations in their now-collapsed asset sale, the latest signal of Beijing’s tightening merger-enforcement posture. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has fined Luxshare Precision Industry and Wingtech Technology for violations in connection with their now-unravelling asset sale, according to a Reuters report on Wednesday. The fine […]

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