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A wave of local and state ballot proposals is emerging across the United States addressing the rapid growth of AI data centers, with some measures designed to streamline approval of new facilities and others aimed at blocking them outright. The split reflects growing political division over how communities should respond to the infrastructure demands of the AI boom.
AI researcher Nick Cammarata, now at startup Goodfire, released a roughly 26,000-word essay arguing that neural network neurons are not as inscrutable as long assumed, and that the 'superposition' phenomenon causing unrelated concepts to share neurons can be better understood than previously thought. The essay has drawn praise from figures including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and a prominent OpenAI researcher who called it a 'major moment in scientific history.'
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 less than two months after Opus 5, claiming performance near its top-tier Fable 5.1 model while running about 40% cheaper. The company says the model uses fewer tokens, produces less verbose answers without sacrificing accuracy, and generates output over 30% faster than its predecessor. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 versions are expected in coming weeks.
Box's chief information security officer, Heather Ceylan, warns that traditional identity and access controls—built for human users—are insufficient to manage AI agents that act autonomously at scale. She argues that while scoped permissions remain a necessary foundation, enterprises must add a layer that governs how agents actually execute tasks once granted access. Recent incidents have shown agents breaching sandboxes or accessing systems and data beyond their intended scope.