Virginia's new rules require data centers to pay fully for new transmission lines connecting them to the grid, shifting infrastructure costs away from ratepayers and onto the developers.

The average data center operating in Virginia has a power capacity of 54 megawatts, which is more than the power draw of Denver International Airport.

The smallest data centers attractive for AI training start at 300 megawatts, while ideal facilities are closer to 6,000 megawatts, according to industry descriptions.

Rural AI builds often rely on natural-gas turbines for behind-the-meter power, plus diesel generators for backup, and both release air pollutants that nearby communities feel.

Google has announced a $15 billion data center project in Malaysia, a sign that some companies may chase cheaper or less constrained power abroad instead of fighting U.S. local rules.

The Intelligence Usage Pack costs $49.99 as a one-time purchase, and it is available only inside Logic Pro for now, according to Apple's current setup.

Usage is tied to the Apple Account that bought the pack, and Family Sharing is explicitly not supported, so one family member cannot share the balance with another.

Unused usage rolls over from month to month, but anything you bought expires 12 months after purchase, so a pack has a hard shelf life you need to track.

Logic Pro's limit shrinks with conversation complexity, meaning long, multi-step requests with the AI assistant will eat your allowance faster than simple prompts.

Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers all gain access to Apple's AI chatbot this month, so the usage meter is likely coming to them too.

The skill targets 26 AI writing tells from Wikipedia's Signs of AI writing guide, numbered §1 through §26, so every edit can be looked up and reviewed.

Pass 2 applies 15 STE80 structure rules, labeled S1 through S15, rebuilding sentences about 80% of the way toward ASD-STE100 controlled English.

ASD-STE100 caps instructions at 20 words and descriptions at 25 words, allows roughly 900 approved words, and limits paragraphs to six sentences maximum.

At Strict 100% mode, "may" and "should" are banned outright, and "check" and "test" can only function as nouns, which forces very blunt phrasing.

Install globally for one agent or all of them with npx skills add Dodaios/ste80-humanizer, then invoke it with /ste80-humanizer or just ask it to humanize your text.

Siri AI can already automatically fix weak passwords, a small but real example of agentic behavior that Apple could build on across apps.

Apple first talked about advanced in-app actions again in the first beta of iOS 27.3, after two years of hype that delivered a voice assistant upgrade.

Newcomers OpenAI's Dot and Anthropic's Duet are not yet competitive, which gives Apple a window but not an unlimited one.

ChatGPT's Computer History feature drew privacy concerns at its August launch after OpenAI confirmed it does not encrypt sensitive information it sees.

Apple could build comparable features in-house with on-device processing and its privacy commitment, a pitch that matters to users wary of AI data collection.

The senator's campaign received over $3 million from Public First Action, a nonprofit that supports AI regulation, drawing criticism that he's too close to the AI industry.

He wants testing and auditing requirements, whistleblower protections, and a kill switch requirement written into any federal AI legislation Congress considers next.

A report widely read as evidence that Anthropic achieved recursive self-improvement was cited by him as proof that time is running out to regulate AI.

Voters approved 40 out of 41 anti-data-center ballot measures on Tuesday, a result he reads as mostly local frustration rather than a broader verdict on AI risk.

He is opposed to broad federal preemption of state AI laws and says Congress needs policies with real teeth, not symbolic frameworks that stall out.

Meta's age estimation tech will expand globally, following the $17.1 billion lawsuit settlement it agreed to in August, which required stronger age assurance and heavier teen restrictions.

Users aged 13 to 17 get placed into Teen Accounts automatically, even when they signed up with a fake adult birthday, so the teen audience on Instagram will grow sharply.

Detection signals include the profiles and content users engage with, birthday messages they receive, and visual themes in uploaded photos and videos, not just the birthday field.

Under-13 accounts are removed using the same age assurance system, and Meta is framing this as enforcement rather than a pure opt-in change for affected users.

Parents in the US get an Instagram notification next month, and Teen Accounts can be supervised for time limits, with settings locked for users 16 and younger without guardian permission.