Tootfinder

The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/pres…

FTC Reminds Data Brokers of Their Obligations to Comply with PADFAA
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…

Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE

'AI tools developed at the University of Oxford for analysing ... text collections. They enable the identification of keywords, topics, and categories of terms' - particularly in crowdsourced / community archives https://github.com/Digital-Scholarship-Oxfor…

GitHub - Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools: Crowdsourced data tools
Crowdsourced data tools. Contribute to Digital-Scholarship-Oxford/crowdsourced-data-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

What the data says about Ukraine’s mobilization crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/what-the-data-says-about.html

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operator-fabricated-seismic-risk-data/

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.

#DataRetention

Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.

»Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts:
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information that is now circulating on the dark web«
Which of you is surprised or even shocked - as you are not now? Unfortunately, many still naively believe that they have nothing to hide.
🤷

Instagram Data Leak Exposes Sensitive Info of 17.5M Accounts
A significant security breach has compromised approximately 17.5 million Instagram user accounts, exposing sensitive personal information.

Five bold Super Bowl 2026 predictions that sound far-fetched -- until you look into the data

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lx-bold-predictions-data-preview/

Wait Sama started talking Trump now, or was it always the case?
> Water is totally fake. It used to be true, we used to do evaporative cooling in data centres, but now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever, this is completely untrue. Totally insane. No connection to reality.

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret
The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to stop you from finding out. Google wants to build a new data …

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, its third in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/xai-musk-data-center-missis…

Elon Musk's xAI to third data center in Memphis area
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to spend $20 billion on a data center in Southaven, Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday that this is the largest private investment in the state's history. The center, called MACROHARDRR, will be near Memphis, Tennessee, and is xAI's third in the area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong says it will house the world's largest supercomputer. The project faces scrutiny over environmental concerns, especially regarding air pollution near predominantly Black co…

Cowboys Don't Chase Big Free Agents (5-Year Data) https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-dont-chase-big-free-agents-5-year-data

Arizona GOP Gives FBI Largest County's Election Data - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/arizona-gop-gives-fbi-largest-countys-election-data/

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

💕 Data Love Is In The Air! Unter dem Motto "Where's the Data?" wird die Datenliebe im Rahmen der #LoveDataWeek vom 09.–13.02. mit zahlreichen Veranstaltungen zelebriert, und @… ist mit dabei 😍
HERMES | Humanities Education in Research, Da…

"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."

https://fortune.com/2025/12/10/coupang-ceo-resigns-south-korea-data-breach/
Wow
Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach

Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach
Nearly two-thirds of people in the country were affected by the breach, which granted unauthorized access to their shipping addresses and phone numbers.

oh nice, redpocket brought back my favorite sim plan (for my kids), and they upgraded it!
For $30/yr, you get unlimited text/talk, and 200MB per month. For those of you with low data needs (or who specifically want to limit their kids data usage): https://www.ebay.com/itm/136840233242

$2.50/Mo RedPocket Prepaid Wireless Phone Plan+Kit: UNLIMITED Talk /Text + 200MB | eBay
Choose the network that works best for you and your phone! THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. B. Text Services. 200MB 5G Data. E. RedPocket service plans are for individual use only and not for resale.

Trump Posted Unpublished Jobs Data Early in Social Media Post (Reade Pickert/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/trump-posted-unpublished-jobs-data-early-in-social-media-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p43#a260109p43

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

のびてるね、投票数
QT: https://fedibird.com/@tukine/115859321870564945

Alice im Kartonagenland
Italienische Reise im Grand Palais: In ihrer Ausstellung „Grottesco“ baut Eva Jospin imaginäre Architekturen und Landschaftsreliefs aus Karton und Stickerei.
https://zeitung.faz.net/data/667/reade

A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/nscale-ai-data-center-boom.html

The Former Coal Miner in the Middle of the A.I. Data Center Boom
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.

Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats

If you're going to use "futuristic" in a press release, at least include a mock-up of what things will look like. (I'm a sucker for photos of soldiers wearing wrist-mounted tablets running TAK or BATDOK.)
https://www.gov.uk/governm…

Soldiers to get new AI capable radios, headsets and tablets with futuristic sensor data
British soldiers will be able to make faster, better decisions on the battlefield through thousands of new radios, headsets and tablets.

A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…

Samsung Defeats Texas’ Bid to Halt TV Tech Following Court Error
Samsung Electronics America can continue to use technology that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says allows it to unlawfully collect data on TV watchers, a judge ruled Friday.

Irgend jemand scheint unter "Digitale Souveränität" etwas ganz anderes zu verstehen als der Rest der Welt.
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

Una lectura mšs que obligatoria para entender lo que conlleva “la nube”
https://www.cloudwards.net/deep-dives/the-data-center-water-wars/
@…

from my link log —
Pointer-based data structures in SPARK Ada.
https://blog.adacore.com/pointer-based-data-structures-in-spark
saved 2019-10-12

Pointer Based Data-Structures in SPARK
As seen in a previous post, it is possible to use pointers (or access types) in SPARK provided the program abides by a strict memory ownership policy…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

imagine spinning a little jet engine capable of supersonic flight next time you prompt your favorite LLM / genAI...
naturally, there are companies producing gas turbines for data centers, but like with RAM memory and SSD, the unexpected growth of data centers caused shortages, hence repurposing of jet engines for energy production...

The People Tracking America's AI Data Centers https://www.404media.co/the-people-tracking-americas-ai-data-centers/

Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns
https://gizmodo.com/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns-2000731145

One of the best features of personal computing is that it’s not renting capacity from centralized data centers that are vulnerable to missile attacks computing

Heute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…

Make Me Data Literate
features Dr Linda McIver interviewing fascinating people who work with Data, asking the question: What is the one thing you wish everyone knew about data...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/make-me-data-lit…

'Largest economic development in history': $20 billion dollar data center coming to Southaven (Hannah Kozlowski/Action News 5)
https://www.actionnews5.com/2026/01/08/largest-economic-development-history-20-billion-dollar-data-center-coming-southaven/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p106#a260108p106

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.
It was great fun.

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT run on expensive chips in data centers, consuming lots of electricity and generating lots of heat.
I just tested an LLM on my iPhone, totally offline, running on its battery with room air cooling it.
Surprisingly, results were good, despite iPhone processors not being designed for LLMs.
This local AI approach has promise for certain things, without the boiling the ocean and using a city’s worth of power.

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Open Infrastructure Map
Open Infrastructure Map is a view of the world's infrastructure mapped in the OpenStreetMap database. This data isn't exposed on the default OSM map, so there built Open Infrastructure Map to visualise it.
🌎 https://openinframap.org
:mastodon:

RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science.
A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened
America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
https://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p36

America's vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
By Pratik Pawar / Vox. View the full context on memeorandum.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator,
--Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data,
--NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data,
--UK government launches $282m cyber action plan,
--Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura,
--Command injection flaw fou…

Man pleads guilty in the first successful US prosecution of a stalkerware operator
Korea warns of hacking forum that steals and sells data, NZ High court enjoins publication of stolen medical data, UK government launches $282m cyber action plan, Threat actor stole and threatens to leak data from insurer Prosura, Command injection flaw found in D-Link DSL routers, much more

New Jersey lawmakers OK plan to charge data centers for spiking electric costs - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2026/01/nj-lawmakers-ok-plan-charge-data-centers-spiking-electric-costs/410580/

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

92% of ICE Detainees
since Sept 2025 are Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990.
Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/92

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions
ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. Get the full breakdown below. Plus: ICE records first detention death of 2026.

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research home #dataset

»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
🤷

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

@… こちらを

Telegraph has a story claiming that the UK gas reserves are about to run out:
> “The UK’s gas reserves have shrunk from 18,000 GWh worth last year to 6,700 GWh – enough for just 1.5 days of demand”
And that piece maybe could have used a graph? Based on data.nationalgas.com the difference is between the blue (last year) and green (this year) lines on the rightmost edge of this graph:

Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025, found on February 3 and now patched; a threat actor leaked a database of ~697K records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Newsletter platform Substack notifies users of data breach
Newsletter platform Substack is notifying users of a data breach after attackers stole their email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025.

Not only was Coupang's CEO forced to step down today but police raided the company's headquarters for a second time too.
Police raid Coupang headquarters for 2nd day over massive data breach
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251210004400315

Kristi Noem and DHS do not deserve the benefit of the doubt (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/kristi-noem-dhs-ice-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p130#a260109p130

Five bold Super Bowl LX predictions that sound far-fetched -- until you look into the data

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lx-bold-predictions-data-preview/

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience.

Civil rights groups file motion to protect sensitive Kentucky voter data from Department of Justice
https://www.forwardky.com/civil-rights-groups-file-motion-to-protect-sensitive-kentucky-voter-data-from-department-of-justice/

Only one day left in the first work week of 2026, so don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources,
--TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data,
--FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request,
--Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for university coach,
--Ni8ma…

Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources
TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data, FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request, Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for Northeastern Univ. coach, Ni8mare flaw allows takeover of N8N workflow automation platform, much more

On Website Technicals (2026-01) - Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction... - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html

On Website Technicals (2026-01)
Tech updates: new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction...

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02/05/the-ai-talent-wars-have…

The AI Talent Wars Have Hit Data Labeling
The AI Talent Wars Have Hit Data Labeling

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area (Adam Mahoney/Capital B News)
https://capitalbnews.org/data-center-south-carolina-black-community/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p86#a260107p86

On Website Technicals (2018-12) - Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-19.html

On Website Technicals (2018-12)
Tech updates: feeds, IMG beyond AMP, Gallery CMS, test cases, random rebuild order, speakable structured data, lighter 404, moar AMPy, featured snippet.

South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10 data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04e5603e-e87c-4035-90a5-03c3d1da3a2e

Is South Korea’s dominant online retailer an American company?
Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul over massive data leak

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/

EU says easier iPhone-Android switching is proof the DMA is working - 9to5Mac
The EU says Apple and Google’s new iPhone-Android switching tools show the DMA is working, delivering easier, faster data transfers for users.

Sources: the White House is drafting a voluntary pact seeking commitments from tech companies to ensure data centers don't raise electricity prices and more (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/09/tru…

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…

Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe | TechCrunch
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/iran-war-imperils-300-billio…

Iran War Imperils $300 Billion in Gulf AI Spending
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies. Countries such as the UAEand Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. ...

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-is-the-latest-state-to-consider-a…

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/ai-data-centers-land-c…

Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/cred…

Credit Data Firm 9fin Seeks $1 Billion Valuation in Fund Talks
Debt intelligence provider 9fin Ltd. is in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of as much as $1 billion as it seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the highly competitive market for credit research.

Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/amazon-bahrain-data…

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/fund…

Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis | TechCrunch
Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.

UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03…

Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar

Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-09/the-ai-boom-is-absorbin…

The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-commissio

Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This CEO’s $1.7 Billion Health Startup Began With Moms. Now She Wants To Expand To All Women.
Former Flatiron Health exec Marta Bralic Kerns raised $92 million to expand her virtual care model to women at all stages of their lives.

xAI aims to build a natural gas power plant in Southaven, MS, to run its data centers; a key meeting with regulators is set on an election day ~200 miles away (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/mississippi-regulators-to-…

Elon Musk's xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
The NAACP has accused Mississippi regulators of rushing a meeting to approve xAI plans for a massive, methane-burning power plant in Southaven.

Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 2029 is highly ambitious, but the idea is plausible (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a5cf86ec-47cb-448f-b4a3-56ca6390ad8e

As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil…

Blackstone and Coatue grant a $10B loan to Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus for data center expansion, among Australia's largest private credit deals (Sharon Klyne/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03…

Exclusive: Data management startup Validio raises $30M
The company started to sell 18 months ago and is profitable.

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps

OpenAI adds ChatGPT Health for medical questions
OpenAI's new feature brings in medical records and data from Apple Health and MyFitnessPal.

Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/

In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/openai…

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot Cowork turns intent into action across Microsoft 365—automating tasks, coordinating workflows, and keeping you in control. See how.

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technol

Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)
https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-6/

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition
Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

Neara, which builds digital twins of critical infrastructure to help prepare for disasters, raised a AU$90M Series D, a source says at a AU$1.1B valuation (Rhiannon Hoyle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/ar…

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro agrees to supply AWS with various chips, including for high-bandwidth connectivity and power management; STM jumps 5% (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…