
Meta Answers the Data Center Backlash — $600B, Water Use and 300 Local Bans
Meta's VP of data centers went on record as opposition grows: $600B in U.S. projects, contested water use in Georgia and Virginia, and moratoriums in 300-plus localities.
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Meta's VP of data centers went on record as opposition grows: $600B in U.S. projects, contested water use in Georgia and Virginia, and moratoriums in 300-plus localities.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro has missed three launch windows amid reports of benchmark shortfalls and a possible rebuild. Separating what is confirmed from what is still anonymous sourcing.

Google connected its personal AI agent Spark to Chrome's Auto Browse. It controls the user's desktop Chrome rather than a remote browser, using saved credentials with permission.

Google rolled back AI image generation in Google Earth one day after launch amid fake satellite imagery, and Meta pulled Instagram's Muse images after three days.

OpenAI announced its next-generation model Astra, which resolved ten problems open for over a decade in high-dimensional geometry, group theory and quantum complexity.

Individual productivity gains do not automatically become organizational results. AI Transformation means redesigning process, decision rights, roles and culture, not buying tools.
A watermark setting was spotted in app code. Only the visible logo appears to go, with invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata retained.

A prompt is a one-off request; a Skill is a reusable way of doing the work. The device that converts judgment locked in an expert’s head into a team asset.

An analysis of millions of anonymised usage records found most use stays shallow. Researchers still warned that collaboration may convert into automation.

Forget your password and a selfie video can verify you. The catch: facial data cannot be reset the way a password can.

Human civilisation scales from cells to states. AI scales from parameters through models, agents and networks — and at that point technology becomes politics.

The cost of re-explaining brand tone in every new chat has a name: the Blank Slate Tax. How to turn brand knowledge into a file-based asset instead.
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