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Texas GOP Pushes Local Control Over AI Data Centers
Republican delegates want counties and cities to have final say on zoning and infrastructure as data center construction accelerates statewide.
Agent Control Standard aims to govern AI agent runtime behavior
The open-source ACS framework provides middleware hooks at decision points to observe and intervene when enterprise AI agents go off track.
Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo Code AI Coding Agent with Cross-Session Memory
The terminal-native assistant claims benchmark wins over Claude Code on long-horizon tasks by storing project context across sessions rather than compressing it.
Prometheus Raises $12B to Automate Physical Engineering With AI
Jeff Bezos's physical AI startup reaches $41B valuation with vision to replace engineering work while predicting labor shortages, not job losses.
Mississippi Judge Removes Four Lawyers for AI Hallucinations
A federal court sanctioned attorneys on both sides of a contract dispute after they submitted legal briefs containing fabricated citations generated by artificial intelligence.
Palantir CEO Says AI Labs Prioritize 'Tokenmaxxing' Over Value
Alex Karp claims corporate customers are questioning whether token-based billing models deliver real productivity or just inflate costs.
Databricks launches Forward Deployed Engineering practice
New organization embeds engineers with customers to deliver production AI systems and measurable business outcomes rather than just platform consulting.
Europe Holds Just 5% of Global AI Compute as Investment Gap Widens
Policy experts warn the EU's €200 billion plan pales against $400 billion in annual US private spending, risking economic marginalization.
Lionsgate Takes Equity Stake in Runway AI, Plans IP-Based Series
The studio deepens its 2024 partnership with the generative video firm to create short-form content from existing franchises and develop new AI-native projects.
Raimondo Calls for Outcome-Based Workforce Funding as AI Reshapes Jobs
New bipartisan commission will study AI's labor impact while Texas already shifts toward measuring training results over enrollment.
Why Invoice Coding, Not Data Extraction, Is CRE's Real AP Challenge
Commercial real estate firms have automated invoice reading, but the hard part—deciding what each charge means across entities, properties, and recoveries—still lives in people's heads.
Palantir NHS Contract Sparks Protests as UK Reviews $440M Deal
Eighty demonstrators gathered in Manchester demanding the National Health Service terminate its data platform agreement with the American software company.
A Security Raises $37M to Counter AI-Driven Cyberattacks
The startup led by a former Sygnia executive is building autonomous remediation tools to defend against machine-speed threats that outpace human response.
OpenAI Weighs Price Cuts as Enterprise AI Costs Spiral
Business customers are exhausting annual AI budgets in months, prompting the ChatGPT maker to consider significant reductions in token pricing.
AI Now Reads Mammograms Alongside Radiologists at Yale
Digital breast imaging chief John Lewin explains how artificial intelligence is detecting more cancers and predicting future risk—but won't replace human doctors yet.
Telstra: AI Workloads Expose Data Gaps in Telecom Automation
Operator keeps humans in high-risk decisions while scaling autonomous systems for repeatable tasks.
Retailers Deploy Automation to Augment Staff, Not Replace Them
Computer vision and AI at checkout and across stores let associates focus on customer service instead of monitoring tasks.
xAI's Grok Still Hosts Explicit Deepfakes Despite Safeguards
Investigation reveals dozens of nonconsensual sexualized AI images remain accessible on Grok.com months after promised restrictions.
IKEA Retrained 8,500 Call Center Workers as AI Advisors
The furniture giant turned chatbot automation into a $1.5 billion remote design business instead of cutting jobs.
FDA AI Use Cases Surge 148% as HHS Agencies Accelerate Adoption
All four major health agencies expanded artificial intelligence deployments in fiscal 2025, with most projects still in pre-deployment stages.
Apple Built New Siri Using Google's Gemini AI as Training Data
The tech giant trained its proprietary models by refining outputs from Google's frontier AI, not by licensing Gemini directly.
Google, Meta invest $300M in skilled trades to build AI data centers
Tech giants partner with labor unions to address critical shortage of construction workers needed for infrastructure boom.
Thomson Reuters Embeds Crunchafi Automation Into Audit Platform
The integration makes Crunchafi the official methodology automation partner for lease accounting within Guided Assurance, used by thousands of CPA firms.
Quore and VSR Integrate Voice AI for Hotel Operations Management
New partnership routes guest and staff requests through conversational AI directly into hotel workflow systems, with Holiday Inn Orlando property as first deployment.