AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoAI Regulation: California has enacted 22 new privacy and AI laws, tightening rules for data brokers, workplace surveillance, health care AI, chatbots and automated hiring. The changes could influence compliance programs well beyond the state. Cybersecurity: Critical PHP vulnerabilities have triggered emergency patching and taken 32 UK government services offline, underscoring the risks of widely used web software. AI Infrastructure: A steep selloff in AI stocks reflects worries about borrowing costs and data-center spending. CoreWeave and Applied Digital together spent about $8.5 billion on equipment in their latest reported quarters, while operating cash flow covered less than 9% of that investment. Chip Testing: Researchers found that traditional aluminum-oxide polishing can introduce trace copper defects and distort semiconductor resistance measurements; diamond polishing avoided the errors. Climate Science: A new particle-based cloud simulation tracked 16 million droplets and aerosols while sustaining both temperature and moisture fluctuations, helping researchers model cloud turbulence more realistically.
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