At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick argued alongside Anthropic's Tom Brown that AI growth requires more data centers, launching a US effort to persuade global leaders to support them. The pitch comes even as roughly 3,400 data centers already operate in the US with 2,000 more planned, drawing bipartisan opposition over energy demands, water use and rising utility costs. The summit itself drew about 100 protesters objecting to appearances by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Lutnick.
The federal government filed a letter in court supporting OpenAI and Microsoft against the New York Times' 2023 copyright lawsuit over AI training data. The filing argues that using copyrighted articles to train large language models qualifies as fair use because it is 'extraordinarily transformative' and doesn't directly compete with the Times' journalism.
A geophysicist at Virginia Tech analyzed satellite data and identified gradual acceleration in ice and rock movement in the weeks leading up to the August 26 glacial collapse in Nepal, which triggered a flash flood that killed more than 1,000 people. The subtle shifts, though slow-moving, revealed a detectable pattern preceding the catastrophic failure.
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in New York federal court supporting OpenAI's argument that training AI models on copyrighted news content qualifies as fair use. The filing addresses lawsuits brought by The New York Times and Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, which accuse OpenAI of infringing their copyrighted material to build ChatGPT.
A technical blog post compares two embedded RTOS approaches—Embassy running async Rust and FreeRTOS running C—on the same STM32F446ZET6 chip clocked at 180MHz. Both implementations run equivalent applications and are measured for interrupt latency, program size, RAM usage and programming ease, using an oscilloscope for timing measurements.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published documents outlining plans to award a contract worth up to $5 million for building a national database of voter registration and voting history records. The contract, managed by Homeland Security Investigations, would require the winning company to pull publicly available voter files from all 50 states, including data on which federal elections people voted in. ICE says the contractor won't initially be asked to collect party affiliation data, but that could change if a contracting officer directs it in writing.
Director Dave Green and voice actor Eric Bauza discussed how the late Mel Blanc, the original voice behind Looney Tunes characters, shaped their approach to the hybrid live-action/animated film 'Coyote vs. Acme.' Bauza, who currently voices several classic Looney Tunes characters, described drawing on Blanc's vocal techniques and comedic timing to bring authenticity to the film's depiction of Wile E. Coyote.
A follow-up Wireshark analysis of Firefox 155 confirms an earlier finding: toggling off Mozilla's AI kill switch disables generative AI features but does nothing to stop background telemetry or advertising data collection. The retest comes six months after Mozilla's CEO publicly called the AI switch one of the browser's most important features, even as onboarding flows never mention what the control actually covers.
A contributor for Entrepreneur argues that small business owners who initially manage marketing themselves often hit a ceiling as their companies grow and technical demands multiply. The piece describes how tasks like website maintenance, SEO, video editing and social scheduling can overwhelm a single in-house coordinator, leaving no time for strategy or new campaigns.
A developer commentary questions why so many software tools rely on JSON for configuration files despite JSON's inability to natively support comments. The piece argues this makes it difficult for users to document why specific settings were chosen, a basic need in configuration management.
Russian startup Mostik has developed a method allowing AI models to exchange information through their internal weight values rather than generated text, effectively letting a smaller model absorb capabilities from a larger one. The team demonstrated this by linking a 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model with a 4-billion-parameter Qwen-3.5 model, producing a hybrid system that runs at one-twentieth the cost of the full-size model while performing roughly midway between the two in capability. Mostik also used a related technique to build a model that has topped the ARC-AGI 3 benchmark, though details remain undisclosed while the contest is ongoing.
Ornithologist Péter Palatitz has spent 20 years studying the red-footed falcon, a colonial raptor that depends on abandoned rook nests to breed. After rook persecution in the 1980s and '90s destroyed those nesting sites and cut falcon numbers to a quarter of their former size, Palatitz began installing thousands of artificial nest boxes across Hungary in 2006, and the falcon population doubled within ten years. Satellite tracking of 28 birds also revealed they fly nonstop across the Mediterranean and Sahara for five days, covering 6,000 miles to winter in southern Africa.
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