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The tension between Washington and Beijing is shifting in real time. Donald Trump is traveling to China alongside a cohort of top American CEOs, signaling a new model of economic diplomacy built around tariffs, export controls, and personal leverage. Whether this amounts to genuine decoupling or a managed reset remains the central question.
Closer to home, data centers are quietly transforming rural communities in ways that deserve attention. In Jay, Maine, a former paper mill that once employed fifteen hundred people before closing after a catastrophic explosion is now being redeveloped as a data facility. It is a pattern repeating across rural America, where industrial vacancy and cheap land are drawing the infrastructure that powers the internet.
And on the security front, a growing concern is taking shape around artificial intelligence workloads. Most enterprises are still applying conventional security frameworks to AI systems at runtime, which are fundamentally different animals. Researchers warn this mismatch is creating gaps that organizations have not yet recognized, let alone closed.
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