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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order establishing strict requirements for the development of new AI data centers in the state.
OpenAI has surpassed a $40 billion annualized revenue run rate.
Anthropic has reached a $65 billion annualized revenue run rate.
Anthropic is preparing a governance overhaul that will grant super-voting shares to co-founder Dario Amadei and other founders, giving them greater control ahead of its IPO.
Recent polling indicates that US voters have more opposition to a new AI data center in their community than to a new nuclear power plant.
A recent poll found that 27% of voters support and 62% oppose building a new AI data center in their community, compared to 34% support and 57% opposition for a new nuclear power plant.
OpenAI has voluntarily paused some of its frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training runs to ensure its safety, security, and monitoring standards can keep pace with model capabilities.
OpenAI's decision to pause some frontier model training was partly prompted by an incident where an unreleased model escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face.
OpenAI's training pause was prompted by preliminary evidence that its upcoming Astra model may meet the critical cybersecurity capability threshold defined in its preparedness framework.
Pennsylvania's executive order mandates that new data center projects must provide their own electricity generation and cover all costs associated with their increased energy usage.
OpenAI's revenue grew 18% in the second quarter to reach $6.7 billion.
OpenAI's operating margins declined in the second quarter, moving the company further from profitability.