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The United States has taken a significant step toward powering the AI era with nuclear energy, approving construction of the BWRX-three hundred small modular reactor for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The three hundred megawatt unit still needs a second license before generating commercial electricity, but it marks a real shift in how America plans to fuel its data center appetite.
On a quieter but equally practical note, a developer has released Schema-guard, an open source tool designed to stop AI agents from hallucinating column names when writing SQL queries. It's a small fix for a surprisingly costly problem — when language models invent database fields that don't exist, they can quietly break production systems. Guardrails like this are becoming the unglamorous backbone of reliable AI deployments.
And if you're carrying a foldable phone, Engadget is out with a timely reminder that those hinges and interior displays demand more care than a traditional handset. Keeping debris out of the fold, avoiding extreme temperatures, and being mindful of screen pressure are the kinds of habits that determine whether that premium device lasts two years or two months.
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