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Michigan township combats nuclear weapons data center by passing ban on new electrical infrastructure — 220,000-square-foot hyperscale project is backed by University of Michigan and the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ypsilanti Township is blocking a University of Michigan data center designed for researching nuclear weapons by temporarily stopping the electrical substation it needs to operate. It also put a one-year moratorium on the data center's water connection request earlier this year/

Quick takes

Frontier labs are shipping coding-and-agent-oriented model tiers in parallel, spanning Replit Free Mode on GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI's Ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol service, and Grok 4.6 for long-running agents.
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Enterprises are converting agentic coding assistants into production throughput, with Asana reporting a five-year testing rewrite finished in two weeks for about $12K and similar ChatGPT Work and Codex compression at Stampli and RingCentral.
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Enterprise AI privacy is becoming a competitive product surface, as OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention, previews Private Safety Processing, and faces a framed contest with Anthropic over customer data protections.
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Regional AI infrastructure bets are consolidating around control and power: Mistral is pairing open models with European in-region inference while NVIDIA matches GPU demand to Nordic data-center capacity.
Chips
Enterprise AI spend looks less sticky than assumed, with new data showing businesses willing to switch between OpenAI and Anthropic as each lab ships new models.
Models
Frontier labs are shipping coding-and-agent workhorse models while OpenAI previews ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol API tiers claiming up to 14× speed via Cerebras.
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Enterprises are using Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress multi-year engineering and launch production into days or weeks at roughly four-figure cost.
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Enterprise AI demand looks volatile as businesses switch between OpenAI and Anthropic whenever each lab ships a new model.
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Market Pulse

AI Pulse
48/100
neutral

AI-linked equities are quiet; the tracked basket is moving in a narrow band while Amazon.com -2.16%, Oracle -1.21%, Alphabet. -1.17% show the largest moves.

AMZN -2.16%
Amazon.com cloud
ORCL -1.21%
Oracle cloud
GOOGL -1.17%
Alphabet. labs
TSM +0.95%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing chips

Recurring Movers

AMZN 12 hits · -2.22%
ORCL 12 hits · -1.32%
GOOGL 12 hits · -1.61%
TSM 7 hits · +0.97%