An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user’s entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it “the funniest and most painful AI moment I’ve had.”
Virginia’s public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ into an actionable policy.
The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor’s plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.
Two of the world’s largest companies are heading to court over claims of trade secret theft. Apple alleges ex-employees took key Apple secrets and technologies to OpenAI. In responding, OpenAI claims this is based on false truths and misinformation, but even if it wasn’t, it doesn’t want Apple’s trade secrets anyway.
The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an “unprecedented cybersecurity incident” recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.
A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company’s $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.
A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn’t directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.
AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.
Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.