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The Government Kill Switch in Every AI Contract

The Government Kill Switch in Every AI Contract

The Government Kill Switch Hidden in Every AI Contract On a Tuesday that will matter far more than most in tech, Anthropic suspended all customer access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a directive from the U.S. government. No warning. No gradual deprecation. No migration period. Just: these models are gone, effective immediately, to comply with national security concerns. This wasn't a product recall. It was a kill switch—and it's the moment enterprise AI deployment stopped being a straightforward product decision and became a geopolitical liability. Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash The Real Story Isn't About These Two…
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Cities Push Back on Data Center Land Grab

Cities Push Back on Data Center Land Grab

Cities Are Finally Saying No to the Data Center Land Grab Seattle just did something that felt unthinkable two years ago: it hit pause on data centers. Per Engadget, the Seattle City Council has approved a moratorium on the construction of large data centers, signaling that municipalities are starting to push back against the relentless appetite of Big Tech's infrastructure buildout. Meanwhile, General Motors isn't waiting for permission—the company is developing sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in data centers and the grid, betting that solving the power problem is how you win the right to build more of them. These…
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