Two of the world’s largest companies are heading to court over claims of trade secret theft. Apple alleges ex-employees took key Apple secrets and technologies to OpenAI. In responding, OpenAI claims this is based on false truths and misinformation, but even if it wasn’t, it doesn’t want Apple’s trade secrets anyway.
The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an “unprecedented cybersecurity incident” recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.
A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company’s $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.
A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn’t directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.
AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.
Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.
Ultimately, three markers will indicate whether China’s domestic DUV program is a legitimate rival or yet more state-sanctioned hot air.
Data center protesters are getting arrested for minor infractions, yet they continue pushing back against these projects. Aside from the arrests, there’s also at least 12 instances (probably more) where the police were called to intervene between politicians and protesters.