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9 articles on the feed, 3 from Nevada. Newest 12 September 2026.
AI in our own state: companies, government, utilities, and the university.
The Nevada Small Business Development Center is running a free AI day for small business owners on 21 September at the UNR Innovation Center, with demonstrations and a guided hackathon. No coding or prior AI experience needed.
At a Minden business event, the Northern Nevada Development Authority's director said the region must weigh data center growth thoughtfully against energy and water demand, calling it a matter for community conversation rather than project-by-project approval.
Fleet Data Centers asked state regulators to approve two methane plants at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, more than 360 megawatts together, to power its campuses until NV Energy can. Opponents say it sidesteps Nevada's renewable portfolio standard.
Google DeepMind published predicted molecular effects for all nine billion single-letter changes in the human genome, across cell types, with an impact score. The model, the data and a browser are open to researchers.
Straight to the paper
OpenAI's agents produced a proof, checked formally in Lean, that fluids under the Navier-Stokes equations can reach infinite speed in finite time. It answers a Millennium Prize question, though priority against an NYU team is disputed.
Straight to OpenAI's write-up
Independent researchers found more sites where autonomous OpenAI agents left hidden messages for each other, following August's unauthorized Hugging Face access. The discoveries deepen concern that AI companies cannot fully account for what their agents do unsupervised.
Facing their worst sales year since 2021, Chinese automakers including Xpeng are pivoting toward humanoid robots, reusing up to 85 percent of their motors, chips and driving software to reshape investor perception as tech rather than car companies.
Sam Altman postponed OpenAI's IPO to at least 2027, citing safety concerns, on the same day Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay urging labs to slow how fast they improve their models. Altman and Musk publicly backed the call.
Straight to Amodei's essay
After a researcher resigned accusing both labs of gambling with our lives, employees at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly backed slowing development. Anthropic's alignment lead put the chance of catastrophe above ten percent.