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A federal judge is turning up the heat on Google, ordering the company to make it significantly easier for users to install competing app stores on Android devices. The ruling signals growing impatience from the courts with what they see as Google using friction, not competition, to protect its dominance in mobile software distribution.
Shifting to a story with broader economic stakes, the United States just sold thirty-year bonds at the highest borrowing costs since two thousand one. That means the government is paying more to borrow money than it has in nearly a quarter century, a signal that investors are demanding greater returns amid uncertainty — and that pressure ripples directly into how companies finance big infrastructure bets, including data centers.
Speaking of which, one hundred thirty billion dollars worth of AI data center projects were cancelled or delayed in just the first three months of two thousand twenty six. For context, the entire previous year saw only one hundred fifty-six billion in similar disruptions. Communities are pushing back over power demands, water usage, and noise — and AI firms are now responding with lawsuits, turning what was a zoning fight into a legal battleground.
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