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A Michigan town voted against a $16B data center. The lawsuit was filed two days later.
Saline Township rejected rezoning for a 1.4 GW OpenAI-Oracle data center. Related Digital sued in 48 hours, and construction is underway.
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Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a chatbot named 'Emilie' invented a psychiatry license
Governor Josh Shapiro is asking Commonwealth Court to bar Character.AI from letting bots practice medicine. A state investigator got an offer to be assessed 'as a Doctor'.
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DHS used a customs summons to demand a Canadian's Google data over anti-ICE posts. ACLU sued May 4.
ACLU sued in N.D. Cal. to block a 1930s tariff-act subpoena targeting a Canadian who hasn't been to the US since 2015. Google has not said whether it complied.
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Five Eyes intel agencies publish first joint agentic AI security guide. Their advice: slow down.
CISA, NSA, GCHQ, ASD, CSE and NCSC-NZ jointly tell organizations agentic AI isn't ready for fast rollout. The 23-page guide names five risk categories.
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Two gamers are suing Nintendo. They want the tariff money back, not the company.
After the Supreme Court killed Trump-era tariffs in February, Nintendo filed for refunds. A class action says those refunds belong to customers.
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Trump fired the entire National Science Board. The body that signs off on $9B in NSF funding is gone.
All 24 NSB members got termination emails on April 24 from the presidential personnel office. The board approves NSF's largest grants and sets policy. It is now empty.
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Virginia turned on data centers. Here's the chart the AI industry should be watching
Virginia voter support for new data centers crashed from 69% to 35% in three years. The Post/Schar School poll and the Digital Gateway cancellation show why it matters.
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The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time
The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.