A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing
www.politico.com/news/magazin... Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan : See also: social media. In both cases, lots of people promising quick fixes with no tradeoffs. [embedded post] Max Berger / @maxberge...
A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps.
Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC
Coinbase Global Inc. said it is suing the US states of Michigan, Illinois and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets.
Oracle says final equity deal negotiations for its Michigan data center project are “on schedule” and Related Digital, not Blue Owl Capital, will be its partner
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for a data center project in Michigan are “on schedule” …
Sources: Blue Owl Capital won't back Oracle's planned $10B, 1GW data center in Michigan, after funding talks stalled due to concerns over debt terms and delays
Investment firm concerned about tougher debt terms and the risk of delays to the vast project
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of their work, most for debugging and code understanding, achieving a 50% productivity boost, and more
What Traders Should Watch Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : How Anthropic's safety first approach won over big business—and how its own engineers are using its Claude AI X: @anthropicai : How is AI changing wor...
Sources: OpenAI has agreed to rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling ~4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative
OpenAI is dead man walking then, Microsoft owns all the IP, and it burns $60+b in competitor venture capital. … @onefeincat : Enough power to send 3.71 Martys McFly back to 1985, and they're using it ...
Global Payments says it will sell its Heartland Payroll Solutions unit, which has 50K+ clients, to Michigan-based fintech Acrisure for $1.1B, closing in H2 2025
House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI models for 10 years
triggered by official GOP tweet — fire back at ‘worthless’ reps Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Republicans Push Bill to Ban State AI Regulation for 10 Years Bluesky: Rep. Rheingans / @reprheingans : 🚨 fed Repu...
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Optilogic, a supply chain software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by NewRoad Capital and launches a tariff optimization tool
Colin Campbell / Axios :