thenerdstash.com
An Indiana community has been left stunned after a local news alert warned residents that a data center construction project had accidentally cut power lines supplying tornado warning sirens, sparking a wave of outrage online as critics claimed the incident perfectly summed up America’s increasingly controversial data center boom. The warning, shared by local Indiana news website Linton News via its Facebook page, then later on Reddit’s r/Indiana community, quickly spread across social media after users learned that crews working on the project had disabled power feeding the county’s outdoor warning system just as severe weather rolled through the area.
images.nvidia.com
Our AI leadership will be judged not by one frontier AI model, but by whether the United States builds a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses into every sector. This is essential for creating opportunities for innovation and prosperity across the country. It requires expanding access to AI, encouraging competition, robust application layers, and giving Americans greater control over the technology they rely on. Open weight models—AI models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure—are an important part of that foundation because they make advanced AI more accessible, adaptable, and widely available.
reuters.com
A German court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno violated copyrights and has to disclose illicit revenue, part of a wider legal battle by artists and publishers against technology firms. The Munich-based regional court said Suno did not have the right to process songs by artists represented by Germany's state-mandated licensing agency Gema.
artificialanalysis.ai
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) is amongst the leading models in intelligence and well priced when comparing to other open weight models of similar size. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Reasoning, Max Effort) scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 25).
consumerrights.wiki
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen) of customer BMW vehicles, placing a branded third-party advertisement in cars their owners had already bought. As recently as December 2023, BMW's connected-company senior vice president Stephan Durach had stated on record that the company would not sell in-car screen space to play a commercial, calling the car a private space.
time.com
It began, as these things now do, with a text message. It looked entirely official: a fraud alert about a possible unauthorized charge on my Goldman Sachs Apple Card. When I asked the caller to prove he was who he claimed to be, he read my entire Social Security number and my date of birth back to me. The stranger was me, and I was no one.