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Cheyenne halts all data-center wastewater after Meta contractor contaminates city system
Cheyenne, Wyoming, suspended data-center wastewater discharges citywide on July 2 after tracing a bacterial contamination to a Meta construction contractor.
Jul 4, 2026
MGX closes $49 billion AI fund, above target, to back Anthropic and OpenAI
MGX, Abu Dhabi's state-backed investment firm, has reportedly closed its first dedicated AI fund at $49 billion, above its $45 billion target.
Jul 4, 2026
Taiwan detains Super Micro and Albatron staff in first Nvidia chip-diversion probe
A Taiwan court detained two Super Micro managers and an Albatron vice president on July 1 in the island's first criminal case over Nvidia chip diversion to China.
Jul 4, 2026
FTC proposes treating hidden ideological tuning of AI outputs as deceptive
The FTC voted 2-0 on July 1 to propose treating undisclosed ideological manipulation of AI model outputs as deception under Section 5, with comment open through July 31.
Jul 4, 2026
DOE extends emergency order that can force PJM data centers onto backup generators
The U.S. Department of Energy extended a Section 202(c) order letting it push large data centers on the PJM grid onto backup generators through July 7.
Jul 4, 2026
EquiLibre Technologies raises Series A at more than $500 million valuation to buy AI compute
EquiLibre Technologies, founded by the ex-DeepMind researchers behind poker AI DeepStack, closed a Series A that values the startup at more than $500 million.
Jul 4, 2026
Kuaishou's Kling AI raises nearly $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation, filing shows
Kuaishou disclosed to the Hong Kong exchange that its Kling AI video unit is raising close to $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation, its first outside round.
Jul 4, 2026
Apple's WebKit adds a local Safari MCP server for AI coding agents to debug live pages
Apple's WebKit team added a Safari MCP server to Safari Technology Preview 247, letting AI coding agents inspect and debug a live browser locally with no network calls.
Jul 3, 2026
Hugging Face and Cerebras open-source a speech-to-speech pipeline running Gemma 4 at 1,851 tokens per second
Hugging Face and Cerebras released an open speech-to-speech AI pipeline running Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 31B at 1,851 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware to cut conversational lag.
Jul 3, 2026
Virginia's ban on selling precise geolocation data takes effect July 1
Virginia's SB338, banning the sale of consumers' precise geolocation data, took effect July 1, 2026, making Virginia the third US state to prohibit the practice.
Jul 3, 2026
SoftBank launches SB Neo joint venture to sell GPU compute in US at 10-gigawatt scale
SoftBank is forming SB Neo, a US neocloud joint venture to sell GPU computing to enterprises and hyperscalers, scaling toward 10 gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
Jul 3, 2026
Kling AI raises nearly $3 billion at $18 billion valuation ahead of Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou's video-generation unit Kling AI has reportedly raised nearly $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation, down from a $20 billion target, as it lines up a Hong Kong listing.
Jul 3, 2026