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Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab — AI lab bypasses traditional suppliers to secure scarce equipment as demand for energy surges — Anthropic has struck a massive deal … | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion — The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled … | Valerie Volcovici / Reuters: |
Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers — Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife … | Politico: |
How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms — For years, the policy debate over artificial intelligence belonged to those who counted progress in decades.
X: @americans4ri, @charlottealter, and @politico. LinkedIn: John Matheson
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections — Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided …
X: @business
| Nous Research: |
Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow — We post-trained over Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained model. We call this new model Arete-27B.| TechNode: |
Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+ — GenRobot AI, a Beijing-based company providing data infrastructure for robot development, has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round.
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| SemiAnalysis: |
Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash — A wind-powered 800MW campus, 120MW built within a year, a 5MW SST-native 800V DC pilot and a cooling design without central chillers
X: @semianalysis_ and @kyleichan
| Financial Times: |
Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland — City-state overtakes Ireland as iPhone maker's biggest tax shelter according to new disclosures — Apple shaved $2.7bn off … | Financial Times: |
The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry — Democrats have vowed to start investigation into president's family after sweeping victory in midterms| Alice Speri / The Guardian: |
Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on — Tech giant leaped to shore up relationship even as company was roiled by worker protest over its role in the war
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How EWS deprecation affects Zoho Calendar Interoperability — Understanding the impactMicrosoft began blocking Exchange Web Services (EWS) requests in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) as of October 1, 2026. If your organization uses Zoho Calendar Interoperability with Exchange Online …
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| Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Public records appear to show SpaceX building a “Starbase supercomputer” in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans — Elon Musk moved early to build AI data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi and reaped the rewards.
More: Yahoo Finance, Futurism, and Townhall
| Arundhati Hazra / The Guardian: |
Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. — Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
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How EWS deprecation affects Zoho Calendar Interoperability — Understanding the impactMicrosoft began blocking Exchange Web Services (EWS) requests in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) as of October 1, 2026.
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Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI labFind
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SemiAnalysis:
Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlashFind
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Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centersFind
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Alice Speri / The Guardian:
Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged onFind
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Financial Times:
The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industryFind
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Nous Research:
Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallowFind
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TechNode:
Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+Find
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