A $120 million data center proposal in Lansing, Michigan, has hit a procedural snag. The city’s Planning Commission voted to recommend selling the land but rejected the rezoning needed to build the 25,000 sq ft facility, pushing the final decision to the City Council.
The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity, alleging copyright infringement. The suit focuses on Perplexity’s use of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver verbatim content, bypassing paywalls.
Los Angeles has officially stopped using coal-fired electricity. Its replacement is a first-of-its-kind power plant in Utah that will burn a mix of natural gas and green hydrogen, aiming for 100% hydrogen eventually.
AMD CEO Lisa Su is pushing back hard against the idea that AI is a bubble. She’s betting big on data center demand, despite challenges like a $800 million hit from China export rules and the massive scale needed to compete.
A push by House Republicans to preempt state AI laws has been rejected from a defense bill. It’s the second time this year the idea has faced bipartisan pushback. The fight over who gets to regulate AI is far from over.
According to a Credit Karma report, two-thirds of Americans using generative AI have turned to it for financial guidance. For Gen Z and millennials, that number jumps to 82%. But top advisors caution that AI can’t handle the personal, emotional side of money.
Salesforce reported strong Q3 earnings, with revenue hitting $10.3 billion. CEO Marc Benioff dismissed fears that AI would kill its core business, calling it a “false narrative,” and highlighted explosive growth for its Agentforce and Data Cloud products.
Pure Storage’s CEO Charles Giancarlo says the era of “software eating the world” is over, replaced by data. The company reported strong Q3 revenue of $964.5 million, beating expectations, and raised its guidance for the year, citing demand driven by AI and modern virtualization.
ChatGPT suffered a widespread outage, leaving users unable to generate responses. OpenAI has since resolved the issue, marking another disruption for the popular AI service.
Apple is now promoting iOS 26.1 as the primary update in the iPhone’s Settings app, moving it ahead of iOS 18.7.2. This marks a change from the company’s recent strategy of slowly rolling out major new versions.
