Dayton, MN’s city council removed Flock cameras and canceled its contract in August, but Flock reinstalled cameras anyway, almost a month after the program’s suspension.

Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.
Data center gear is being stolen in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, and spoof GPS signals
Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.

The U.S. government is helping fund projects to bring nuclear reactors back online in an attempt to provide more energy capacity to AI data centers.

The International Monetary Fund has produced a report examining how financing for the global AI buildout could result in contagion should the industry fail to produce its promised profits.

Former Nvidia advisor Eric Gullichsen says a 1993 stock option grant leaves him owed about $1 billion in stock.

In a recent interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that if frontier labs have unsafe models, they should shut the labs down, calling the current calls for regulation a “distraction.”
A proposed class action lawsuit has been lodged against the four big AI tech companies after they agreed to slow AI development for safety reasons. The lead counsel on the lawsuit says that ‘AI will quickly spin out of control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol … to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world’s most powerful ‘for profit’ technology companies.’
LG has strongly denied recent security and privacy concerns raised regarding its smart TVs.