AI Pact Puts Data Centres and Safety on the Ballot
A new candidate pledge links the local costs of data-centre construction to a broader agenda for binding AI oversight, worker protections and corporate accountability.

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A new candidate pledge links the local costs of data-centre construction to a broader agenda for binding AI oversight, worker protections and corporate accountability.
AWS and NVIDIA have announced plans to add two million more NVIDIA GPUs to AWS infrastructure during 2027 and 2028, extending a partnership that now reaches from chips and networking to public-sector systems and robotics.
The spread of synthetic animal videos is turning a once dependable source of online empathy into a harder-to-verify and more easily exploited attention market.
NVIDIA’s NVHBM proposal shifts memory-control circuitry into the HBM stack, aiming to give custom AI accelerators more bandwidth, usable silicon area and power headroom than standard HBM4E designs.
Google’s proposed $10 million purchase of deidentified Spirit Airlines data has become a test of whether privacy safeguards designed for consumers can adequately protect workers’ confidential records.
XCENA has presented MX1, a CXL computational-memory architecture that combines DDR5 expansion, SSD-backed capacity and near-memory processing for data-intensive AI infrastructure.
Asus has opened pre-orders for the $1,299 ROG Xbox Ally X20, a premium Windows gaming handheld built around a larger OLED display and redesigned controls.
ASUS’s ROG Rapture GT-BN98 brings draft Wi‑Fi 8 technology to a high-end gaming router, but its practical value will depend on client support and the unfinished standard.
Intel has expanded the public specification of its Crescent Island data-centre GPU, presenting a 32-core Xe3P design that prioritises memory capacity, air cooling and inference deployment economics over headline compute figures.
Reports of students using generative AI to sexualise and impersonate educators show that deepfake abuse is becoming a workplace and safeguarding challenge for schools, not only a student-safety issue.
Lenovo has acknowledged that a withdrawn BIOS release can leave some original Legion Go handhelds unable to boot, and says affected repairs should not be treated as user error.
A $29.97 promotion for Visual Studio Professional 2026 makes a familiar Windows development tool unusually cheap, but it should not be confused with an all-inclusive AI coding subscription.
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