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Searchlight Institute counts more than 100 rural data centers in development that could claim a federal opportunity-zone tax break starting January 1. Its analyst says capital investment is the only condition, so any jobs a county wants have to be written into its own deal.
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FEC filings show 523 federal candidates and campaigns disclosed at least $17m on AI vendors since 2020, though candidates rarely talk about it. Chatbot subscriptions are a small office cost in those records, while the bigger sums buy automated texting from vendors split by party.
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Campuses in Texas and Ohio are pursuing up to 27 gigawatts between them, against an average draw of about 36 gigawatts for all US data centers in 2025. For buyers of that capacity, the open budget line is the new-generation cost Indiana lawmakers want developers to share.
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Pew Research Center finds 37% of Americans aged 18 to 29 take protein powders, drinks or bars, against 23% of those 65 and older. The survey counts users and cannot separate age from generation, so a bet that wellness spending moves into protein-fortified food still depends on an unanswered question.
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Pew Research Center finds 67% of the 1,500-plus US data centers in development are planned for rural areas, while 87% of about 3,000 running now are urban. Many developers are building their own power on site, so county boards now set the pace.
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Irrational Labs found 67% of surveyed workers expect AI to take peers' jobs within a year, but only 15% expect to lose their own. For managers, widespread worry about AI says little about whether any one employee sees a reason to prepare.
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A detector run over 490,000 Common Crawl pages puts a number on synthetic text in the crawlable web, and the number is uneven enough to change how you build a training set.
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A Democratic think tank wants the word dropped, Sunrise has moved its organising to fighting authoritarianism, and the 6 in 10 Democrats who still call climate a very big problem are being asked to rank it lower.
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Pew surveyed 10,548 adults from July 20 to Aug 9 and found the move against data centers in rural, urban and suburban areas alike and among both parties, while Texas issued a statewide moratorium in August.
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Combined Kalshi and Polymarket volume reached $53 billion in July, an annual pace above Bernstein's forecast for all of 2026, and Senate Banking Democrats say contracts tied to corporate metrics belong to the SEC.
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A demo day watched live by more than 10,000 agents, visits from senior leaders to local offices and retrained regional staff produced about 97,000 conversations from roughly one agent in five in the weeks after July's launch.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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Bitdefender's free macOS beta attaches to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex and OpenCode as an MCP server, covers only the requests those tools route through it, and drops the container when the prompt ends.
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Michael Kratsios told Fox News Sunday that a lab afraid of its own model can simply stop shipping it, weeks after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked for safety monitors and firmer federal rules. That leaves the cost of a pause with the company that takes it.
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A Milken Institute report says heirs are pushing their parents to give money away faster. Its evidence is a practitioner's observation and Scott's $26 billion, set against $18.3 trillion of billionaire wealth.
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The Census Bureau study puts that hit on a par with graduating into a large recession. A separate study of 393 employees finds the productivity gains coming back to staff as a higher performance bar.
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Profound raised $96 million at a $1 billion valuation in February and Adobe closed on Semrush in April. Both deals assume presence in AI answers can be counted, and when ChatGPT names a brand without a link there is no referrer to count it.
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About half of Americans use chatbots anyway, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's explanation for the pushback is procedural: AI features switched on by default, with no clear way for a user to turn them off.
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Pew asked more than 42,000 people what AI will do to employment, and the median answer was fewer jobs. TechSpot's reading of the tables puts the most AI-aware respondents among the most worried, and a Mercer survey puts executives at 99%.
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Across 37 countries the median was 46 percent expecting AI to mean fewer jobs against 9 percent expecting more, and in the US the figure reached 71 percent. Product teams are shipping AI features to people who already expect job losses.
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