Loudoun County considering moratorium on new data center applications, rejects 3.25 million sq ft campus

Trouble in data center paradise

Trouble in data center paradise
Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber (model ID is fugu-cyber-v1.0), a cybersecurity-specialized addition to its Fugu orchestration family. It is not just a new frontier model. It is a third endpoint on the Fugu orchestrator, tuned for security reasoning. Sakana launched that orchestrator a month earlier. Sakana reports a success rate…
Tesla’s capital expenditure reached about $5.8 billion during the quarter. Free cash flow turned negative by roughly $1.1 billion, marking the company’s first quarterly cash burn in more than two years. Tesla also expects annual capital spending to exceed $25 billion. The company continues to fund robotaxi development, artificial intelligence infrastructure, next-generation manufacturing and the…
Shares of XPeng (XPEV) jumped 1.5% on Friday after the company announced that it had begun employee testing of its robotaxi service in Guangzhou. Internal Testing Underway The Chinese electric vehicle maker started closed testing of its robotaxi platform just eight months after unveiling the project at its 2025 AI Day. Chairman and CEO He…
Most real-time monitoring systems are better this quarter than they were last quarter. The models behind fraud alerts, equipment warnings, network anomaly flags, and transaction holds keep gaining accuracy, and the false alarms that used to bury operators are thinning out. That progress is real and worth having. It also sets up a quiet failure…
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products. The role calls for experience building products for parents and…
The powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can kill with one use. Yet a sizable percentage of adolescents aren’t aware of this danger. A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see a great risk with using fentanyl once or twice, researchers report July 7 in JAMA Network Open. The data…