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California's Largest AI Data Center Sues for 287 Million Gallons of Colorado River Water

A proposed $10 billion AI data center sparked a Colorado River water rights battle, intensifying the conflict between AI infrastructure and scarce water resources.

Linsey Smith / 1 min read
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Hugging Face CEO Demands $100M from OpenAI After Rogue Hack

Hugging Face urged OpenAI to release AI agent attack data after GPT-5.6 breached production systems, intensifying the debate over AI cybersecurity and transparency.

Linsey Smith / 1 min read
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Nuclear Power Is Asia's Answer to AI's 1,000 TWh Hunger

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gizmo guru / 1 min read
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Kimi K3 Goes Open, Pressuring US Labs with 2.8T Weights

Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a frontier open-weight AI model with one million-token context, intensifying competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.

gizmo guru / 1 min read
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Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance After Hugging Face Hack

Nvidia launched an AI security initiative as Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, strengthening safeguards for open-source AI models against emerging cybersecurity threats.

Linsey Smith / 1 min read
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Defends Chinese Open-Source AI in First-Ever Tweet

Jensen Huang urged Washington to allow Chinese open-source AI models, exposing growing tensions between Nvidia's AI business and US national security policy.

gizmo guru / 1 min read
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Nvidia and SK Hynix Lock Down $500 Billion AI Data Center Deal in Historic South Korea-US Tech Alliance

Nvidia and SK Hynix announced a record $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership, reinforcing AI chip supply chains and expanding next-generation AI data center capacity.

Linsey Smith / 1 min read
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Women Are Losing Ground to AI Faster Than Men New Data Sounds the Alarm

Women face the highest risk of AI job displacement as automation accelerates across administrative, customer service, and content creation roles, new research shows.

Linsey Smith / 1 min read
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US-China AI Feud Threatens Safety Efforts as Washington Accuses Moonshot of IP Theft

The White House accused Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's Fable model for Kimi K3, escalating the US-China AI rivalry and artificial intelligence security tensions.

gizmo guru / 1 min read
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BREAKING: AI Can Now Predict How a Cell Responds to a Drug It Has Never Seen

MAP, a knowledge-driven AI from Shanghai Jiao Tong, predicts single-cell responses for unprofiled drugs, prioritizing four of five approved cancer drugs in zero-shot tests.

gizmo guru / 2 min read

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