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The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/fff531fc-988c-4016-9b5b-25f2274f4d47?accessToken=zwAAAaBq_GUskdP_9TH8mIxAFtObWyXyJ09NRw.MEYCIQD09lhipznFC83rVxTx4ztMI_rtYxuK-2xpbJltH0yV8AIhALEtjnwE4yew40b3WfYJRD1cEh2sBy9ecksnl-0qFESV&sharetype=gift&token=2310df83-b6ea-4b36-9b05-d4b985b00bbf&syn-25a6b1a6=1
Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/8a708224-3a37-4d23-9f5c-158a73216018
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/76b370ff-b5f6-4e22-aa30-da08b1abb8f8
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-and-the-wiki-incident
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/science/google-backed-indian-space-startup-raises-100-million-latest-funding-round-2026-09-07/