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OpenAI plans post-midterm policy push and weighs data center rebrand

Global affairs chief Chris Lehane outlined moves to reframe AI infrastructure and influence the 2028 race.

Flock ignores city contract cancellations and keeps cameras running

Plymouth, Minnesota cut power to its cameras itself, and Dayton found Flock reinstalling gear without approval.

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OpenAI plans post-midterm policy push and weighs data center rebrand

Global affairs chief Chris Lehane outlined moves to reframe AI infrastructure and influence the 2028 race.

Flock ignores city contract cancellations and keeps cameras running

Plymouth, Minnesota cut power to its cameras itself, and Dayton found Flock reinstalling gear without approval.

California Prop 45 draws warnings of a data center review loophole

Environmental advocates warn the ballot measure lets data center developers skip community scrutiny.

TechCrunch Founder Summit adds Braindate networking lounge in Boston

The Nov. 4 event at SoWa Power Station lets founders and VCs schedule topic-specific conversations before doors open.

Verge staff survey reveals keyboard preferences spanning ergonomic splits to Keychron

Reporters describe wrist pain, tenting kits, and tenkeyless layouts as deciding factors in their daily setups.

Best Buy bundles a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders

The retailer automatically adds the card to the cart when shoppers preorder the 14- or 16-inch MacBook Pro or the M6 model.

Political texts flood phones as do-not-call rules leave them exempt

Robokiller counted 15 billion political texts in 2022, and one spam filter CEO estimates 25 to 30 billion this year.

Blackstone forecasts high junk credit rating for Anthropic after IPO

The forecast marks a reversal from Blackstone's earlier view that Anthropic would earn investment-grade status before 2027.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic back shared AI opt-out token

The policy token lives in robots.txt and lets publishers set training preferences once for many crawlers.

ChatGPT Desktop App Reaches AWS GovCloud Through Amazon Bedrock

AWS published a guide for routing ChatGPT desktop and Codex inference through Bedrock in us-gov-west-1 with IAM controls.

NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints pair agent harnesses with NeMo and OpenShell

Open blueprints let developers keep OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, or LangChain Deep Agents while adding optimization and governance.

Altman says OpenAI will keep releasing math results despite disruption

OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions on math and faces criticism for poor communication and gatekeeping.