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Following the Democrats' sweeping midterm victory, Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona wasted no time, calling for a full ban on artificial superintelligence and demanding the industry be brought under control. It's a signal that AI regulation may finally find serious legislative momentum.
Meanwhile, the pressure is building across the Atlantic as well. Over one hundred groups in fifteen European countries are planning coordinated protests on November sixth and seventh, demanding an immediate moratorium on new large-scale data centers. The movement follows similar ballot battles in the United States, suggesting a genuine public reckoning with AI's environmental footprint.
And in the world of AI finance, a striking contractual wrinkle has surfaced in a nineteen billion dollar data center deal between bitcoin miner TeraWulf and Anthropic. Should Anthropic default on its rent obligations, Google holds a provision allowing it to acquire a stake in the project — a quiet but telling sign of just how deeply Google is positioning itself across the AI infrastructure landscape.
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