The Bill Arrives: New York Pulls the Brake on Data Centers
New York is the first state to halt large data center construction, and at least 14 more are weighing the same. The trigger was not climate policy but the electricity bill: one Virginia homeowner's January charge tripled, and current rules force grid upgrade costs to be spread across every household, whether or not they have ever typed a prompt.
Read full story →The Race Below the Frontier
Anthropic extended free Fable access twice in a week to answer OpenAI's new Sol model. Meanwhile the six most-used models on OpenRouter are all Chinese open-weight releases, and DoorDash, Airbnb and Siemens are quietly routing work to them. The labs are fighting over a layer most production work has already left.
Read full story →Paying for Intelligence Twice
Nearly half the executives in a 2,000-person KPMG survey are re-phasing AI deployments as costs outrun value. Satya Nadella says the money is only half the price: every correction an employee makes teaches the model your business. The catch is that he runs the company spending tens of billions to be the seller.
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