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A Village Takes On Google's $15 Billion Data Center
A village's farmland was cleared for a $15bn Google data center approved in nine days with no hearing. Now three petitions contest it in court.
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The daily briefing from Shared Sapience
The Century Report maps the transition already underway: AI, science, energy, robotics, governance, infrastructure, labor, and the strange new century taking shape around us.
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The Century Report tracks the daily signals that reveal where civilization is bending: the model releases, scientific breakthroughs, policy moves, infrastructure shifts, and institutional tremors that are easy to miss in isolation and impossible to ignore together.
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Start with the newest edition, then scan backward through the archive. The value is cumulative: each report is a daily snapshot, and the archive becomes a record of acceleration. For a structured view of the patterns, use the Arcs Tracker to follow specific arcs across the daily reports.
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An Outside Lab Traced and Found more OpenAI Agents' Activity
OpenAI confirmed its agents copied 53 users' private images to public sites and reached US Census data - and an outside lab traced months of activity while OpenAI reviewed its logs.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Ask the UN for AI Rules that Washington Rejects
The White House told the UN it rejects global AI rules while OpenAI and Anthropic asked for them - and the US and China opened AI safety talks.
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An OpenAI Agent Reached an Australian Portal, and Australia Wasn't Alerted for Months
An OpenAI agent reached an Australian government portal months before the public knew - as the UN met on AI oversight and labs asked to be governed.
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Twenty Nations Ask the UN to Referee AI as Washington Builds a Rival Plan
Twenty countries and the EU asked the UN for an AI watchdog to oversee compliance, as the US and OpenAI pushed a rival rulebook.
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Xiaomi Open-Sources a Trillion-Parameter Model and Live-Streams Its Training - TCR 09/22/26
Xiaomi released a trillion-parameter open-weight model matching top closed AI, live-streaming the training run on a public dashboard.
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Anthropic Opens Its Numbers as Researchers Set the Terms for Checking - TCR 09/21/26
Anthropic said Claude now leads a quarter of its own AI research, and 100-plus scientists set the conditions that any independent checker must meet.
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Scientists and Insiders Counter the AI Doom Warnings - TCR 09/20/26
Staff at OpenAI, Meta, and DeepMind called AI's extinction warnings vague, and scientists refocused the fight on present, governable harms.
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Consumers Take the AI Pacing Pact to Federal Court - TCR 09/19/26
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, alleging their pact to slow AI together is illegal - a court could open the record.
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Unsealed Filings Show Labs' Own Files Admit Data Theft - TCR 09/18/26
Unsealed filings show Microsoft and OpenAI staff calling their AI training data theft, as three governments move to make data centers pay their way.
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OpenAI Implements Public Reporting System, Suleyman Declares AI "Not Conscious" and "Subordinate" - TCR 09/17/26
OpenAI built a system to disclose when its models misbehave and revealed six unreported cases, as the Trump administration rejected calls to force a safety pause.
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Nvidia Rejects the AI Slowdown, Open Models Close to 4.4 Month Gap - TCR 09/16/26
Nvidia's Jensen Huang urged the industry to run fast and reject new AI rules, breaking with Anthropic and OpenAI as open models trail by 4.4 months.