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In Australia, Felix Mobile is shaking up the mobile data market with its new Unlimited Plus plan, doubling download speeds to eighty megabits per second for just fifty Australian dollars a month. That is ten dollars more than before, though the telco is offering a limited-time discount, making it an unusually compelling deal in a market where truly unlimited data remains rare.
Closer to home, the small Oregon city of Umatilla has declared a state of emergency after statewide restrictions on new data centers threatened roughly six million dollars in expected municipal revenue. The broader restrictions have put more than five billion dollars in statewide investment in jeopardy, and Umatilla now faces potential delays to a planned new police station, illustrating how energy and infrastructure policy decisions ripple into local communities in ways few anticipate.
And on the artificial intelligence front, a project called the Nunchi Project is inviting users to watch frontier large language models play a repeated prisoner's dilemma, testing whether these systems cooperate or defect over time. It is a deceptively simple experiment that raises genuinely interesting questions about how AI systems reason through trust and self-interest.
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