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More than 30 data center projects proposed in Michigan in the past two years have sparked intense local opposition, with the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority refusing to supply water for cooling a University of Mi…
California's three-tier public higher education system, established by the 1960 Master Plan, has devolved into turf wars over academic degrees as community colleges seek to offer bachelor's degrees and state universities…
Nous Research's Hermes Agent includes a skill trust model that relies on a hardcoded allowlist of just four trusted repositories — OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA — to determine which community skills can be …
Hamish Campbell argues that the tech industry's cycle of adopting new platforms and tools, termed 'tech churn,' prioritizes novelty over solving real problems, leaving fundamental social issues untouched and weakening co…
A four-hour public meeting in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, over a proposed AI data center campus by MLV Ventures turned rowdy, with residents shouting, booing, and chanting in opposition. Planning commission chai…
Towards AI launched Towards AI Deployment, an enterprise division staffed by AI engineers who began as community members and students. Co-founders Louis-François Bouchard and Denis P. detailed the transition from teachin…
In 2015, residents of Athenry, Ireland, protested Apple's plan to build a $1 billion data center, raising environmental and community concerns that foreshadowed today's global conflicts over AI-driven data center expansi…
Norax builds an entity graph from its memory store to improve retrieval for AI agents. The graph uses entity extraction, co-occurrence edges, community detection, and weighted edges to capture relationships between conce…
A viral hoax misattributed a fictional AI model named Le Chaton Fat to Mistral AI, after Mistral itself posted and deleted a satirical announcement for a 24-trillion-parameter model. Community memes inflated the joke wit…
Americans are increasingly opposing AI data center construction in their communities, with 71% of respondents in a Gallup poll rejecting such facilities and communities blocking or delaying $64 billion worth of projects …
On July 18, Humans First organized a national protest against AI data centers, reporting 142 demonstrations across 42 states, with independent confirmations in Georgia and South Carolina. The protests, which called for l…
The Nashville Zoo rejected a proposed memorandum of understanding with data center provider DC Blox that would have allowed a 69,200-square-foot data center near the 188-acre park, citing safety concerns for its 3,000 an…
A comparison of prompt template libraries found that community-driven platforms like PromptCube outperform static marketplaces and DIY solutions, cutting deployment time from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. The analysis by an …
Architecture firm Forma designed the 'Pink Thermal Baths' concept in 2021, proposing a 32,000-square-foot bathhouse warmed by subterranean servers as a model for what data centers can give back to host communities. With …
Egimuk, a developer from Rwanda, is building Vylo, a modern social platform designed to help people connect, share, and build communities in a fresh and meaningful way. The project, originally called Aura Lenz, is curren…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it must remain owned by …
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is navigating a financial crisis after its long-term payment provider, Nexi, suddenly terminated their contract, affecting over 450 regular donors. Despite this challenge, the o…
Anthropic's Claude Code plugin marketplace is a JSON file in a git repository with no field for pricing, meaning developers cannot sell plugins through the official system. The schema, verified against official docs and …
A new 'community contract' is emerging as towns like Hobart, Indiana negotiate with Amazon and Microsoft for data center investments worth hundreds of millions in local benefits, but at least 75 projects worth $130 billi…
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a community with over 200 member companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Bloomberg, Block, and Cloudflare, is calling for venue hosts, organizers, and volunteers t…