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A cybersecurity journalist is taking the unusual step of suing the Justice Department and the FBI, seeking records the agencies have reportedly refused to release. It's a case that puts press freedom and government transparency in direct tension, and the outcome could set a meaningful precedent for how federal agencies respond to security reporters doing public interest work.
Shifting to the business of artificial intelligence, a new analysis finds that forty-two percent of enterprise AI projects are currently failing. Despite executives describing their organizations as AI-ready, the underlying data tells a more complicated story — one of misaligned expectations, poor data foundations, and a gap between ambition and execution that is proving costly.
And in the world of crypto infrastructure, Bitcoin miner Hut Eight has signed a nine point eight billion dollar AI data center lease, sending its shares to an all-time high. The deal covers the first phase of a massive Texas complex originally built for Bitcoin mining, now being repurposed for hyperscale AI compute — a striking symbol of how quickly capital is chasing the next big infrastructure bet.
That's the state of play today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
