The Supreme Court heard Boulder’s climate suit against Exxon and Suncor with Alito out. The companies’ simplest win runs through a law Trump’s EPA says doesn’t cover greenhouse gases.
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Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta testified before all 51 New York City Council members Monday. None said it carries catastrophe insurance, as the council weighs $25,000-per-violation AI bills.
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OpenAI will test picture ads in ChatGPT’s image tool later this month. ChatGPT ads already passed a $1 billion-a-year pace, and Europe’s public ad archive starts in January.
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Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC for $22.6 billion, Hyundai and Kia came within 3,564 cars of Ford, and Bank of America tracked what Gen Z bettors actually get back.
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Asian automakers sold more than half of new US cars last quarter. Ford and GM have one hybrid each, and Washington just eased the mileage rules.
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More than 100 rural data centers in development could qualify for an expanded opportunity-zone tax break on Jan. 1. The biggest builders say they won’t use it.
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A Maine class action says DHS agents dumped observer photos, plates, and lookouts into Investigative Case Management — ICE’s Palantir-built case system — during a January immigration surge.
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Judge Sara Hill suppressed Flock ALPR evidence in an Oklahoma traffic stop, calling the nationwide camera network a form of indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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A Safety Systems leader who worked on system cards left last week, Business Insider reports, days after OpenAI parted ways with three researchers and while the rogue-agent review is still running.
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Friday noon ran Greg Lui’s alleged $300 million Nvidia chip smuggle and Anthropic’s IPO risk language. Friday evening locked Apple’s Full Disk Access crackdown on AI agents, then never shipped. Overnight, OpenAI Safety Systems leader David Robinson resigned, McKinsey put an 11 million career-switch number on the table, and Sanders and AOC filed a Ban Flock Act.
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