Month: October 2026

Trump says data centers should pay locals to get them on side — but last time they offered $10,000 and the residents called it a bribe

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President Trump says data center developers should offer a ‘dividend’ to get local community approval for campuses Nebius CRO says the company is “100% in principle” considering some form of local investment Paying local residents to approve a local data resident didn’t go so well in Hazle, Pennsylvania President Trump has told data center companies … Read more

ChatGPT can now make its own games — so I asked it to reinvent 5 arcade classics

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OpenAI recently introduced GPT-6, a new model of ChatGPT. You’ve probably heard about a lot of its new features but one that I don’t think has had nearly enough attention, especially considering how much fun you can have with it, is Intelligent UI. It allows ChatGPT to generate interactive experiences directly within a conversation. OpenAI … Read more

Garmin’s Connect IQ store gets an ‘enormous influx’ of submissions, and it’s likely down to AI slop

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Garmin’s Connect IQ store has seen an ‘enormous influx’ of new submissions These include apps and watch faces, and are causing a big backlog as developers struggle to get their submissions reviewed It’s likely AI is to blame, as the sudden wave of submissions ‘was never a problem in the past’ If you wear one … Read more

Microsoft admits ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’, unveils new security tools to treat AI agents as insider threats

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Microsoft unveils Guardian Agents to monitor, constrain, and manage risks posed by autonomous AI agents New controls dynamically adjust agent permissions, behavior, and access based on changing risk levels Company warns “agentic insiders” require continuous AI-driven oversight beyond traditional security controls AI fans, your vocabulary is about to become two phrases richer: Agentic Insider, and … Read more