Meta Faces $942M Child Safety Bill, Unlimited ChatGPT, AI Created Its Own Lifeforms + 7 More Stories

Amazon is building a natural gas power plant in West Texas to fuel a massive data center that could become one of the single largest sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. One facility, one company, national climate impact. Meanwhile, Meta is paying an additional five hundred sixty-seven million dollars in a child safety case, bringing its total fine to nine hundred forty-two million dollars. The lawsuit centered on sexual exploitation material and algorithmic amplification of harmful content.

Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer, is working with OpenAI on a display-free smart speaker, a small hockey puck-shaped device shipping around twenty twenty-seven for three hundred to four hundred dollars. It's a pure-voice bet against a decade of screen-based smart home devices. Three coding agents just entered a pricing war at once. Meta launched Muse Code undercutting incumbents, Anthropic turned Claude Code's autonomous mode on by default, and a free open-source tool called Prime Agent is outperforming both on benchmarks.

Microsoft is merging all Copilot apps into one product while launching AutoPilot for autonomous engineering work. The company is also rolling out internal AI token budgets across its engineering workforce to control spending.

Scientists at a major research institute used AI to design sixteen novel bacteriophage viruses from scratch that had never existed in nature, then tested them against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They worked. Communities across the country are now fighting data center construction, passing moratoriums and slowing approvals in Florida, the Midwest, and beyond due to power consumption, grid stress, and minimal job creation.

Security researchers are reporting a surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. A self-spreading worm hit over four hundred npm packages. North Korea-backed groups poisoned one hundred thirty-one packages with malware. Voice cloning powered by AI is enabling vishing campaigns that have targeted major hedge funds.

OpenAI is removing chat limits for free and Go tier users with unlimited text conversations and rolling out Luna, a new model version that reduces hallucinations by roughly sixty percent. SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate with deep Trump family ties, donated fifty million dollars to the Trump presidential library in early twenty twenty-four, then secured a federal land lease in Ohio for a massive data center project months later.

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