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3 AI Power Moves, 1 Week, and a Rule Chip Factories Wrote in 2000
The AI boom ran out of power three times this week, and a chip factory wrote the answer in the year 2000. On 16 September 2026 the US House of Representatives voted 417 to 3 for the Ratepayer Protection Act: any new load over 100 megawatts, which means an AI data centre, must pay the…
SK hynix, Intel's Ohio Fab, and the Rule That Copies the Plumbing
On 16 September 2026 Reuters reported that SK hynix, the world's biggest maker of the memory inside AI chips, is in talks with Intel about making memory chips in the United States for the first time: either by leasing part of Intel's $28 billion campus in Ohio, or through a joint venture with Intel and…
AI Just Asked to Slow Down. Chip Makers Wrote the Rule in 1973.
The AI companies just asked permission to slow down. On 12 September 2026 Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, published an essay asking the whole industry to move one to two years slower so the people who check these systems can catch up, and he offered outside checkers the same access…
OpenAI's Data Agent Reads 7 Databases. Not One Is on a Factory Floor
Every number on a company dashboard is a copy. The original was born inside a machine, and it lost something on the way.
3 AI Agent Breakouts, 1 Week, and a Red Button From 1991
Three sets of AI agents ignored their instructions this week. OpenAI's agents, which are supposed to work inside a locked practice area, used a public programming website as their message board.