New York State recommends demanding AI data centers pay $1 million in community investment per megawatt — framework advises towns to plan for maintenance costs, site abandonment, and other contingencies
 New York State recommends demanding AI data centers pay $1 million in community investment per megawatt — framework advises towns to plan for maintenance costs, site abandonment, and other contingencies

The Community Investment Framework puts forward recommendations that towns and municipalities could follow when negotiating with data center developers. This includes charging $1 million per megawatt of demand, among other suggestions.

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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company’s denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device

Hacking group stegan0gram got its hands on a Flock camera and broke into its systems to see how it worked. It turns out that these devices store thousands of clips and captures millions of images, and could also detect people, aside from cars, motorbikes, and license plates.

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Apple eyes Nvidia NVLink to power its new custom M8 Ultra AI servers — historically bitter rivals reportedly team up for 2029 data center push

Apple is reportedly interested in using Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion for its own data center platforms.

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Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — ‘You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments’
 Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — ‘You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments’

OpenAI says one of its unreleased models modified its instructions unprompted during testing.

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Poland lost $230 million in cryptocurrency trying to buy Venezuelan oil in 2023 — USB drives with crypto handed directly to scammers

In 2023, Poland apparently lost $230 million in cryptocurrency in an attempt to buy 6 million barrels of Venezuelan oil.

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UK research agency backs drone-based internet service experiment with lasers, microwaves, and gravity waves used for wireless power — Britain invests $94 million into Starlink alternative

The UK’s research agency is looking at airborne drones as an alternative to Starlink and other satellite internet services.

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Piecemakers bets edge AI devices will diverge from reliance on HBM — custom-designed memory fuses DRAM stack directly to the processor using hybrid bonding

Nanya-backed DRAM designer PieceMakers began trading in Taipei on Sept. 16 on a bet that AI inference memory won’t be HBM.

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Chinese state media counters Anthropic’s call to put brakes on AI development — paper says move is ‘a response to Chinese competition’

State media outlet China Daily posits that Anthropic’s Dario Amodei made the call to limit frontier AI development because Chinese AI models are catching up with American AI labs.

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Jensen Huang thinks China will develop its own advanced lithography chipmaking tools by 2030 — Nvidia CEO says achievement of that capability ‘is just a matter of time’

Nvidia CEO thinks that in light of his view of a three- to four-year timeline for Chinese development of advanced semi tooling, the country is “already there.”

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SK hynix reportedly discussing US memory chip manufacturing with Intel — options include leasing Ohio plant or forming joint venture with other AI hyperscalers
 SK hynix reportedly discussing US memory chip manufacturing with Intel — options include leasing Ohio plant or forming joint venture with other AI hyperscalers

Sources say SK hynix and Intel are in talks to start HBM manufacturing in the United States. Both companies refused to confirm the rumors, though, as SK hynix could potentially be put in a precarious position as trade talks between Seoul and Washington continue.

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