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OpenAI is moving forward with one of the largest AI infrastructure bets in history — a thirty billion dollar data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, designed to deliver three point two gigawatts of compute power. The project, called Camellia, sits on existing industrially zoned land, but OpenAI is already working to ease concerns from local residents who aren't entirely sold on having a mega facility in their backyard.
Shifting to Bitcoin, nine major institutional players — including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy — have pooled fifteen million dollars to fund developers working on quantum-resistant security for the Bitcoin network. The concern is a real one: future quantum computers could theoretically crack the cryptography that keeps the blockchain secure, and the industry wants to get ahead of that before it becomes urgent.
And at GitHub, the AI-generated bug report flood has finally forced a policy change. Starting July twenty-seventh, the Microsoft-owned platform is splitting its bug bounty program into two tiers — cutting payouts for public submissions while reserving significantly higher rewards for an invite-only group of vetted researchers. The signal is clear: volume without expertise is now a liability, not a contribution.
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