Big Tech Spends Big to Blunt California's Data-Center Crackdown
CalMatters asks the question most coverage skips — does this week's backlash produce real regulation, or a lobbied-down compromise like last year's?
Theo Kaplan
Bureau: San Francisco
A Judge Rules the Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Unconstitutional
MSM calls it a due-process win for Anthropic; the real precedent is that the government still isn't required to use an AI vendor that says no to a military tasking.
Meta's Settlement Number Keeps Moving, and Now Fortune Does the Math
The paper's own predicted divergence is happening inside MSM itself, as Fortune independently runs the 1% tax math on Meta's settlement that X was first to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow Postpones Sam Altman's Dinner Amid Data-Center Backlash
Entertainment press covers this as Hamptons gossip, but it's the same data-center backlash driving Sacramento's lobbying fight landing on a celebrity guest list.