Mills Signs Maine's Data Center Ban — Without the Jay Exemption She Demanded
Governor Janet Mills signed Maine's first-in-nation data center moratorium into law Thursday — without the Jay paper mill carveout she spent three weeks publicly demanding.
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TSMC Raised Full-Year Guidance and Said Its Packaging Line Is Maxed Out Through 2027
TSMC's Q1 call confirmed what the 58% profit jump implied — full-year guidance lifted above 30% growth, CoWoS packaging 'fully utilized,' and the AI-capex-peak thesis is dead.
Anthropic Opposes the OpenAI-Backed Illinois Liability Shield on the Record and the Frontier-AI United Front Ends
Anthropic went on record Thursday against Illinois SB 3444 — OpenAI's liability-immunity bill — and the frontier-AI companies' first public governance fracture is now in the legislative record.
Congress Scaled Back the MATCH Act the Same Week TSMC Raised Guidance
Export-control hawkishness has a ceiling defined by NVIDIA's capex plan.
Broadcom Now Has Every Frontier Lab Except Anthropic, and Hock Tan Left the Board
The governance detail inside the capex press release: a board seat had to move before the silicon could.
AI Psychosis Jumps the Coder Fence as Sholto Douglas Says Knowledge Workers Are Next
A supervision gap born in terminals is migrating into every occupation that involves reviewing work you cannot fully reconstruct.
AWS Logs a Multi-Service Operational Issue Against a Wartime Cloud Backdrop
Amazon's Health Dashboard flagged a multi-service incident Thursday — small on its own, large against six weeks of damaged Middle East data centers.
Oracle Leads Tech Layoffs Past 50,000 With AI as the Named Cause
Tech has cut nearly 80,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2026 — Oracle's 30,000 AI-led reduction is the number the sector can no longer frame as restructuring.