Category: AI News

American opposition to nearby data centers surges from 42% to 71% in nine months

71% of Americans now oppose a data center near their homes, up from 42% in August 2025, a Heatmap survey finds. Electricity costs lead the backlash.

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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Role in Scam Advertising

A lawsuit accuses Meta of letting scam ads run across its platforms without adequate safeguards, testing the boundaries of platform liability.

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YouTube to auto-label AI-generated videos and make disclosures more visible

YouTube will auto-label videos that look AI-generated using internal signals, moving disclosures below the player on long-form video and overlaying them on Shorts.

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Most Americans Oppose Local AI Data Centers More Than Nuclear Plants, Gallup Finds

71% of Americans oppose AI data centers in their area, versus 53% for nearby nuclear plants, new Gallup polling finds.

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Claude AI Helps Recover a Bitcoin Wallet Worth $400K

A Reddit user says Anthropic's Claude helped them regain access to a Bitcoin wallet holding about $400,000 after other recovery options failed.

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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Trade Secret Theft

Apple sued OpenAI on July 10, 2026 in California, accusing the company of a coordinated scheme to steal hardware trade secrets via ex-Apple staff.

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News Outlets Seek Sanctions Against OpenAI in Copyright Dispute

New York Times-led coalition asks a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for allegedly withholding evidence in a 2-year copyright case over ChatGPT training.

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Economists Admit They Are Guessing About AI’s Economic Impact

A survey of economists finds low confidence and wide disagreement on AI's economic impact, with respondents admitting they lack hard data.

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Supreme Court declines to block Texas app store age verification law

Supreme Court declined to block Texas's SB 2420, letting age verification for app downloads take effect while First Amendment challenges proceed in the Fifth Circuit.

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Four U.S. States Press $1.4 Trillion Penalty Claim Against Meta Over Child Addiction Allegations

California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey seek up to $1.4 trillion in penalties from Meta over child-addiction allegations, per Meta's court filing.

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AI Expansion Drives Sharp Rise in Data Center Water Consumption

AI workloads push U.S. data center water use to roughly 1 trillion liters a year, straining local supplies and sparking bipartisan pushback in regions like Texas.

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Beijing Weighs Limits on Overseas Access to China’s Top AI Models

Beijing regulators are weighing restrictions on overseas access to Chinese AI models, citing concerns about foreign misuse, per Reuters sources.

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Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 to Compete in AI Coding Market

Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, an AI coding model, via public API with $20 in free credits, taking on OpenAI and Anthropic. Wang calls it Meta's strongest agentic model yet.

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Seedream 5.0 Pro From ByteDance Targets Complex Design and Editing Workflows

ByteDance's Seed team has introduced Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal image model built for dense infographics, interactive editing, and photorealistic detail.

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OpenAI Brings Realtime Voice Conversation to ChatGPT With GPT Realtime

OpenAI launches GPT Realtime, a production-ready end-to-end voice model now rolling out in ChatGPT, replacing Standard and Advanced Voice modes.

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