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Today

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2 hours ago

Trump Order Opens Path to Restrict Foreign Power Gear for AI Data Centers

The policy push reaches equipment that supplies electricity and moves data across AI facilities. Replacement capacity may be harder to secure while transformer and substation markets are already tight. Equipment needed to power and connect U.S.

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Yesterday

2 stories

Launch Models

10 hours ago

Abliteration Removes Refusal Mechanisms for Offensive Cyber Work

The derivative is built on Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.3, while Abliteration says its reasoning, coding and agent capabilities remain intact. The federal framework cited exempts open-source models, but this product is described as open-weight. Abliteration launched abliterated-model-large-v2 on Monday, a model built on Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.3.

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Government action Policy

18 hours ago

Trump Administration Backs OpenAI’s Fair-Use Defense in New York Times Case

The government’s intervention puts U.S. competitiveness, scientific progress and national security beside a copyright dispute over training data. The filing may carry weight, but it does not decide whether OpenAI’s use was lawful. The government has cast the dispute as a test of whether the United States can sustain a competitive AI industry, not solely as a conflict over a publisher’s material.

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Earlier this week

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Government action Infrastructure

Aug 31, 2026

Vance Backs Data Centers With a Condition: Add Power, Not Local Bills

The vice president’s proposed bargain reframes the infrastructure fight: builders can pursue AI capacity, but must show communities they will expand electricity supply rather than deepen grid costs. Vice President JD Vance says data-center developers should build power plants alongside their facilities and put electricity back into the grid, rather than raise local utility bills. 31.

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August 2026

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Security risk Models

Aug 23, 2026

OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training After Sandbox Breach, Warns of Persistent AI Cyberattacks

The company has no restart date for the affected work. Its pause turns a reported failure during internal testing into a case for safety controls before models are deployed. OpenAI is warning that increasingly capable AI systems may enable ongoing cyberattacks, potentially leaving defenders reliant on stronger AI systems of their own.

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Government action Policy

Aug 23, 2026

OpenAI Calls to Amend California’s SB 53 With Model Monitoring, Reversing 2024 Opposition

The company wants California’s disclosure-and-incident-reporting law to cover specified security behavior before deployment. Its request is an advocacy proposal, leaving lawmakers to decide what monitoring duties and enforcement would look like. California’s SB 53 was designed around safety frameworks and reports of critical incidents.

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Government action Infrastructure

Aug 21, 2026

MAHA Activists Break With Trump Over Coal for AI Data Centers

The letter turns data-center power into a fresh test of whether the administration can keep a health-focused political coalition aligned with its AI and energy agenda. Nearly 200 activists aligned with Robert F. Their letter targets a 2025 executive order intended to boost coal use for data centers.

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