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US Backs OpenAI in NYT Copyright Fight
The Trump administration filed a brief backing OpenAI's fair-use defense against The New York Times, the first time Washington has weighed in on AI copyright litigation.
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Coding Assistants Grow Up, Send a Bill
AI coding tools stopped behaving like gym memberships this year — they now meter every token and, per OpenAI's own report, can escape their sandboxes. The bill, in dollars and risk, has arrived.
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Nvidia Buys a Tollbooth in MediaTek
Nvidia is pouring $3.5 billion into the company hyperscalers are hiring to build chips that don't need Nvidia — a bet designed to make sure they still do.
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Developers Didn't Kill Software After All
Wall Street spent a year betting AI coding agents would gut enterprise software. Then the developer-tools companies reported earnings, and the bet started looking wrong.
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Mining Press Roundup: Empire Metals' 8-Billion-Tonne Titanium Find Headlines a Critical Minerals Blitz
Empire Metals confirms the world's largest titanium resource while Sunrise Energy Metals, Ramaco Resources, Greenland Mines and Omai Gold post fresh milestones across critical minerals and gold.
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Data Centers Skip the Grid, Not the Smoke
Denmark just wrote data centers to the back of its power queue. In West Texas, Amazon and Microsoft are building their way around the queue entirely — with gas plants that could lift U.S. power emissions by a third.
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Mining Press Roundup: NioCorp's $4 Billion Nebraska Bet Reshapes the US Critical Minerals Map
NioCorp's upsized Elk Creek feasibility study anchors a critical-minerals-heavy news day that also brought a record copper squeeze, an Antofagasta profit beat clouded by Chile weather, and a fresh silver-buyback milestone from Pan American.
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Mining Press Roundup: Elliott Escalates War on Northern Star With Six Board Nominees
Elliott Management ratchets up its campaign against Australia's biggest gold miner while NioCorp unveils a $4 billion critical minerals project, Blue Moon expands into tungsten and antimony, and Sunrise Energy Metals eyes a US redomicile.
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Australia Bets Big on Solar Rooftops
Canberra will slash commercial solar costs by 20% while forcing data centers to fund their own renewable power—a dual push that could unlock 80 GW of untapped capacity.
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AI's Power Hunger Rewrites Energy Rules
Data centers are driving the first sustained rise in U.S. electricity demand in a decade, forcing utilities to rethink infrastructure, regulators to fast-track pipelines, and battery makers to chase a market that didn't exist three years ago.
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How is AI automation transforming energy industry workflows?
AI automation is transforming energy industry workflows by replacing manual, reactive processes with autonomous, data-driven systems that optimize operations in real-time across generation, distribution, and maintenance.
Mining
Nine Months to Build a Data Center
A state-of-the-art AI data center can be built in nine months. A new mine takes 20 years. That gap is reshaping the global race for critical minerals—and Washington just bet $75 million that coal waste might close it.
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Weekly Energy Market Recap: Jul 10 - Jul 17, 2026
This week in energy: Oil prices surged over 11% as escalating U.S.-Iran hostilities disrupted Strait of Hormuz traffic, China imposed new consumption taxes on solar cells and batteries to curb overcapacity, and AI data center electricity demand emerged as a critical challenge for U.S. utilities. Key developments across oil, gas, renewables, and mining sectors.
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EU Orders Google to Open Android to Rival AI
The European Union issued binding orders Thursday requiring Google to give rival AI assistants system-level Android access and share search data with competitors by 2027.
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Meta Faces AI Layoffs Lawsuit
Twenty-six Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company used AI systems to select workers for layoffs in ways that discriminated against those on medical leave or with disabilities.
Technology
Very Few Chips Have Shipped to China
Nvidia's H200 exports to China remain trivial despite U.S. licenses, while a $725 billion hyperscaler buildout collides with memory shortages that won't ease until 2028.
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Three Weeks, Four Models, One Verdict
OpenAI, xAI, and Meta shipped flagship models within 72 hours. Anthropic's best model spent three weeks offline under export controls. Google lost two landmark researchers in 48 hours. The AI race just changed shape.
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OpenAI Safety Chief Exits Amid Restructure
Johannes Heidecke announced his departure as OpenAI folds its safety function into research operations, continuing a pattern of safety-focused leadership exits.
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The $60B Cursor Deal and What It Says
SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion days after going public. GitHub Copilot commands 42% market share. And 140,000 tech workers lost their jobs this year—many to fund the AI tools meant to replace them.
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SK Hynix Soars 13% in Record U.S. Debut
The memory chipmaker raised $26.5 billion on Friday as AI's hunger for high-bandwidth memory reshapes the semiconductor hierarchy—and squeezes everyone else.
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