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As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site — The village of Caledonia, Wisconsin, sandwiched between Chicago and Milwaukee along Lake Michigan, is dotted with corn and soybean fields …
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first — Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies — China has overtaken the US …
Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B+ in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B+ in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's — The popular app's online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok's popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.
Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its AI server manufacturing site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
Joe Schulz / WPR:
Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its AI server manufacturing site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, adding to $717M invested through 2024 — WEDC offering up to $16M in tax credits to support expansion, bringing total contract to $96M
Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations — As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry's influence.