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A massive data center campus in Fayetteville, Georgia, reportedly consumed nearly 29 million gallons of unmetered water before the issue was discovered. Residents first noticed a problem when water pressure in the area began to drop.

The developer, QTS, stated that the water was used for temporary construction activities such as concrete work, dust control, and site preparation, rather than ongoing server cooling. Still, it raises a larger concern:

As AI data centers continue expanding globally, are local communities being adequately informed about the strain these projects can place on water, energy, and public infrastructure?
The future of AI will not be defined only by GPUs and model size.
It will also be shaped by energy use, water consumption, transparency, and public trust.

A major twist in the AI chip wars: China has reportedly added Nvidia’s China-specific RTX 5090D V2 to a customs banned list.

The irony? This chip was specifically designed by Nvidia to comply with U.S. export controls for the Chinese market.

It’s not just gaming hardware. The ban initially hit H200 and H20 AI chips as well. Even with U.S. approval for sales to giants like Alibaba and Tencent, Chinese customs are still blocking shipments.

This suggests a shift in strategy. China may be intentionally restricting these "compliant" chips to force domestic firms toward local AI hardware alternatives.

Biohub, the nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s CZI, announced a $500M Virtual Biology Initiative to build open datasets and models that can predict how human cells behave — pushing AI toward biology simulation.

$400M of the $500M will fund data generation and imaging tech, with $100M for external research labs and research efforts.

Nvidia, Allen Institute, Arc, and others are joining the initiative, with Biohub committing to open datasets as a shared base for AI biology research.

Current AI biology datasets max out near 1B cells, with Biohub’s Alex Rives saying an “order of magnitude” more data is needed to accelerate the efforts.

The goal is to train models on the data to use AI toward “understanding disease and reprogramming it at the level of cells, molecules, and tissues.”

Google’s Demis Hassabis has said AI could eventually end disease, and Biohub is pouring serious money behind that same line of thinking. The question is whether the scaling that cracked language and protein structure also holds for cells, and whether $500M gets anywhere close to the data scale needed to find out.

Greece is preparing constitutional changes that would require AI to serve human freedom and social well-being.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the proposal is meant to protect future generations as AI becomes more powerful and raises concerns for democracy and human rights.

The amendment would say AI must support individual freedom, benefit society, reduce risks, and make full use of its advantages.

Elon Musk just lost a major legal fight against OpenAI.

A federal jury sided with OpenAI and Sam Altman, ruling that Musk waited too long to sue over claims that the company moved away from its original nonprofit mission. The jury reportedly reached its decision in under two hours after a three-week trial, and Musk’s team says it is preserving the right to appeal.

But this case is bigger than one courtroom loss.

It raises a deeper question for the AI era:
Can a company built to “benefit humanity” still hold onto that mission when billions of dollars, investors, and global AI dominance are involved?

The legal battle may be over for now, but the debate around OpenAI’s future is far from finished.

Utah’s planned Stratos AI data center would use 9 GW of power twice the state’s total use. Physicists say the waste heat equals 23 atomic bombs daily, raising local temps 28°F at night. The huge project sparks fears over water, dust, and climate impacts in Utah.

Trump confirmed on Friday that China refuses to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, choosing instead to develop its own.

Though the US approved sales, Beijing blocked purchases to boost domestic chips like Huawei’s. Trump says talks continue and a deal “could happen,” but China wants tech independence.

A South Korean hotel worker at Lotte Hotel Seoul is being recorded while folding napkins and handling banquet tasks to help train AI-powered robots.

Startup RLWRLD is collecting motion data from skilled workers across hotels, logistics, and retail to build software for robots that can perform real-world physical tasks.

South Korea sees “physical AI” as a major opportunity, using its manufacturing strength and skilled workforce to compete globally.

Hyundai plans to use humanoids in factories from 2028, while Samsung aims for AI-driven factories by 2030.

A new UK study has found that one in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing a GP.

The poll of more than 2,000 people, analysed by King’s College London researchers, found that long NHS waiting lists influenced a quarter of chatbot users.

Researchers warned the trend could create an “unregulated AI healthcare system” alongside the NHS.

Doctors said the findings are concerning because AI cannot examine patients, understand full medical history, or make safe clinical judgments.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said AI has changed how fast the company can operate.

Engineers are now shipping in days what used to take teams weeks. Non-technical teams are writing production code. More workflows are being automated.

Now Coinbase wants to become “AI-native.”

That means fewer management layers, no pure managers, smaller teams, and more employees acting like “player-coaches.”

The company is also testing AI-native pods, including “one-person teams” where one person may handle engineering, design, and product with AI support.

Sundar Pichai announced Gemini Intelligence, a complete reimagining of Android from a phone operating system into something that thinks, plans and acts on your behalf across every device you own.

Not a chatbot you open and close. An AI that is always running in the background learning your routines, understanding your context and doing things for you before you ask.

Here is what that actually means.

You wake up. Your phone already knows you have a flight today. It has checked traffic, updated your calendar, summarized your emails and prepared a trip widget, all before you touched it.

You drive to the airport. Android Auto uses Gemini to handle navigation, messages and calls so your hands never leave the wheel.

You get on the plane. Your Googlebook laptop, a brand new device Google announced alongside this, connects seamlessly to your phone and continues every task exactly where your phone left off.

This rolls out this summer starting on Samsung Galaxy S26 and Google Pixel 10. Then it expands to watches, cars, glasses and laptops from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo.

Google’s exact words: “Google is Gemini now and Gemini is Google.”

KPMG told Business Insider that it has rolled out a dashboard for employees in its US advisory division — where the company recently laid off 400 staff members — to monitor how frequently they use AI. The dashboard compares individual AI usage against set targets as well as peer benchmarks.

Business Insider reviewed screenshots of the dashboard and spoke with two employees, who requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly.

According to the employees, although the dashboard is intended to encourage AI adoption, the metrics can be easily manipulated and may not accurately represent how AI is actually being used in day-to-day work.