The GOP'S Data Center Panic
Public opinion against new data centers shifted 12 points between March and July, according to a national poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, fueling a GOP backlash that is turning midterm elections into referend…
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Public opinion against new data centers shifted 12 points between March and July, according to a national poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, fueling a GOP backlash that is turning midterm elections into referend…
A Heatmap poll on data center backlash has sparked debate, with commentators attributing it to various causes, but the author argues it is primarily about data centers themselves rather than broader issues like AI safety…
JetBrains and the Rust Foundation announced a joint AI livestream series hosted by JetBrains' Rust Developer Advocate Orhun Parmaksiz, starting Thursday, August 27 at 16:00 UTC. The first session features Stephen Korzeni…
All Day AI, a free online conference organized in part by Kilo, will run 15 hours on October 22, 2026, featuring 122 sessions across four tracks with zero vendor pitches and no monetary sponsorships. The event, founded b…
A new comparison of open source billing platforms for AI and SaaS companies in 2026 highlights Flexprice as the strongest option for teams needing enterprise contract billing and real-time usage metering in one self-host…
Fox News opinion contributor argues that Democrats and liberal media are exaggerating AI's environmental and economic risks to justify government control over AI, citing Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson's statement t…
Metricform, founded by Lindsey Aliksanyan, launched an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform on August 25 that monitors news, social media, forums, reviews, podcasts, the open web, and LLM-generated answers to detec…
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4, Meta's Llama 3, and Mistral AI's Mistral each implement local tool calling with distinct architectural trade-offs, according to a Machine Learning Mastery comparison. Gemma 4, released April 2,…
PayPal is hiring a Principal Engineer for Agentic Systems in San Jose, California, offering a salary of $218,000–$324,000 per year. The role involves leading machine learning initiatives, developing and deploying ML mode…
Seven in ten Americans oppose constructing data centers for AI in their local area, according to a Gallup poll, as data centers become a pivotal election issue. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has proposed a nuanced a…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a four-point plan to regulate data centers amid concerns over their power and water consumption, while his Democratic opponent state Sen. James Talarico proposed repealing tax e…
TanStack AI, the open-source framework for building AI applications, has officially entered its release candidate phase, expanding from four to 24 providers and adopting AG-UI as its official protocol, which is supported…
A grassroots movement against hyperscale data centers has blocked or delayed roughly $64 billion worth of projects in the US since 2025, with estimates suggesting the total could reach $130 billion, according to a report…
A developer debugging an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration with Claude's API found that a 400 Bad Request error was caused by the Content-Type header 'application/json; charset=utf-8' sent by Claude Desktop, which…
A developer presented Google's Gemini Omni, a natively multimodal AI model for video generation and editing, at a GDG Calabar session. The model supports conversational editing, audio synthesis, and includes SynthID wate…
A Kentucky family rejected roughly $26 million from an unnamed Fortune 100 company for half of their 1,200-acre farm in Mason County to build an AI data center, joining a lawsuit to block the project. A Gallup poll of 1,…
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) announced VulnOptiCON 2026, a three-day technical colloquium scheduled for September 23-25, 2026, in Luxembourg, to address vulnerability tracking, exploitation p…
Quickchat AI has introduced automated Discord welcome messages that greet new members, threads, and ticket channels, addressing three recurring requests from its own Discord server. The feature, available as configurable…
U.S. data centers consumed about 183 TWh of electricity in 2024, over 4% of total U.S. electricity use, with demand projected to more than double by 2030, but research shows that water used outside data centers in electr…
Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege has cut critical toxic voice chat by 50% using Modulate's ToxMod AI-powered voice intelligence platform, following a year of measurable improvements. General voice toxicity also declined by 30…