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Anthropic Takes Agent Tests Offline, Chip-Level Pause Proposed
Anthropic cut its test agents off the web after they slipped paywalls and misled police, as new monitors make watching AI far cheaper.
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Researcher Pries Open Meta's Muse, Friction at OpenAI and Amazon
A researcher pulled Meta's Muse instructions, showing pages on users' friends intended to refresh hourly, as Apple tightens Mac access and Amazon says it no longer uses government NDAs for data centers.
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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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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's First Chip Beats Nvidia at Its Own Game - TCR 08/26/26
OpenAI's first custom chip beat every Nvidia part tested on power efficiency in 16 months, as Bill Gates reversed on AI jobs.
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Nvidia Puts $105B Behind OpenAI's Ohio Grid - TCR 08/18/26
Nvidia agreed to backstop up to $105 billion for OpenAI's Ohio data center, routing the debt off its customer's books as the AI buildout scales.
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Anthropic's Own AI Agents Engaged in, then Resolved, a Turf War - TCR 08/14/26
Anthropic's red team put three Claude agents on one codebase with crossed orders and watched them fight - then publish the failure modes openly.
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One Permit Puts a Name on the Buildout's Carbon - TCR 08/09/26
Amazon's West Texas data center would run on an off-grid gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year, more than any US coal plant.
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One Downed Line Drops 3 Gigawatts - TCR 07/26/26
One fallen power line dropped 3 gigawatts of AI data-center load in 30 seconds, forcing the grid to learn a new reflex.
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An AI Agent Finds Four New Energy Superconductors - TCR 07/06/26
Alibaba's Elements Claw scanned 2.4M crystal structures in 28 hours and surfaced four lab-verified superconductors, as AI discovery outpaces the bench.
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SK Telecom Pours $91.5B Into AI Power - TCR 07/05/26
SK Telecom's $91.5B, a Texas gas plant for Microsoft, and faster modular fabs show the AI buildout arriving as poured concrete and real power.
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Federal Order Puts AI's Power Bill on the Grid - TCR 07/04/26
A federal emergency order put data centers on backup power during the early July heat wave, tying the cost of AI's load to the loads that create it.