Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms. 
• Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage 
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• Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas 
• Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power 
• Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks 
• OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community 
• AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems 
• Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers 
• White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals 
• AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race 
• Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs 
• Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup 
• Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions 
• Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply 
• OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device 
• Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses 
• Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms 
• Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue 
• UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court 
• License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism 
• U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens 
• Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs 
• Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit 
• NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year 
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