Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras

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.

60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary buyouts as AI buildout costs bite
60,000 Microsoft employees offered voluntary buyouts as AI buildout costs bite

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 hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions

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 to cut jobs globally in “performance-based” layoffs, as company pivots to AI data center and edge computing markets

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.

US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers
US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers

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.

AI sector wipeout risks global financial contagion, IMF report warns
AI sector wipeout risks global financial contagion, IMF report warns

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.

Early Nvidia advisor says he’s owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlement
Early Nvidia advisor says he’s owed $1 billion in stock due to a 1993 vesting error, but Nvidia rejected settlement

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

Nvidia CEO says ‘we have to shut the labs down’ if AI experiments are unsafe
Nvidia CEO says ‘we have to shut the labs down’ if AI experiments are unsafe

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.”

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI development — plaintiffs say plan has been in motion for months before, calls agreement ‘self-serving’

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.’