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Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Why Andreessen and Bain Backed a Self-Described ‘Zendesk Killer’
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million ...

Optical Counterparts to X-ray sources in LSST DP1
Yuankun (David), Wang, Eric C. Bellm, Robert I. Hynes, Yue Zhao, Poshak Gandhi, Liliana Rivera Sandoval, Sandro Campos, Neven Caplar, Melissa DeLucchi, Konstantin Malanchev, Tobin M. Wainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14400

Optical Counterparts to X-ray sources in LSST DP1
We present a crossmatch between a combined catalog of X-ray sources and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) to identify optical counterparts. The six fields targeted as part of DP1 include the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (E-CDF-S), the Euclid Deep Field South (EDF-S), the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Fornax dSph), 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) and science validation fields with low galactic and ecliptic latitude (SV\_95\_-25 and SV\_38\_7, respectively). We find matches to 2314 of…

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cloud-startup-vercel-fields-o…

Cloud Startup Vercel Fields Offers for $9 Billion Valuation
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge ...

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Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.

Sources: German AI startup n8n is expected to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a pre-money valuation of $2.3B, up from ~$350M four months ago (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/a…

Two data centers in San Antonio have used 463 million gallons of water in the past two years.
The Alamo City facilities,
owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps,
have drained water from the surrounding area despite difficult drought conditions throughout Texas.
In 2025, data centers across the state are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water,
⚠️ enough to supply millions of households,
primarily for cooling massive banks of servers that power generativ…

Texas Data Centers Use 50 Billion Gallons of Water as State Faces Drought
The Alamo City facilities, owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps, have taken large amounts of water from the drought-ridden state.

Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-…

Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/bret-taylor-sierra-ai-startup…

Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup
Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has closed a $350 million funding round