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A low-profile Texas company that provides temporary housing for immigrant detainees and oil riggers could get a boost from the data center boom. Loading audio narration… Target Hospitality’s stock is up about 60% since March 31. The company announced on April 1 that it had signed a $550 million deal with a top hyperscaler to house thousands of construction workers building a data center campus in Texas.The deal is a “landmark” for Target Hospitality, Stifel analyst Stephen Gengaro said Monday in a note to investors.Target Hospitality has become one of the many non-technology companies hoping to cash in on the…

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced Thursday that his office planned to investigate OpenAI over the alleged role of ChatGPT in a deadly shooting last year. In April 2025, a gunman opened fire on Florida State University’s campus, killing two and injuring five. Last week, attorneys for one of the victims of the shooting claimed that ChatGPT had been used to plan the attack. The family of the victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident. “AI should advance mankind, not destroy it,” Uthmeier said in a statement posted to X. “We’re demanding answers on OpenAI’s…

Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion. But after admitting on March 31 that it was the target of a data breach, the company has been facing a world of trouble. Since then, a hacker group has claimed to have obtained 4TB of stolen data from Mercor’s systems, including candidate profiles, personally identifiable information, employer data, source code, and API keys. Mercor has not commented on the authenticity of the data, reiterating only that it is investigating and “will continue to communicate…

Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday’s launch of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark — its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI last year to overhaul the social giant’s AI efforts. According to new data from market intelligence provider Appfigures, consumer demand for the Meta AI app has pushed the app up from No. 57 right before the launch of Muse Spark on Wednesday to No. 5 on the U.S App Store on Thursday — a move suggesting a flood of…

Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Instead of unleashing Mythos on the public, the frontier lab will share it with a group of large companies and organizations that operate critical online infrastructure, from Amazon Web Services to JPMorgan Chase. OpenAI is reportedly considering a similar plan for its next cybersecurity tool. The ostensible idea is to let these big enterprises get ahead of bad actors who could leverage advanced LLMs to penetrate secure…

Google and Intel announced an expanded multiyear partnership on Thursday for Google Cloud to continue utilizing Intel AI infrastructure and to keep developing processors together. Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks. The company has used Intel’s various Xeon processors for decades. The companies will also expand the co-development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data center tasks by offloading them from CPUs. This chip development partnership, which started in 2021, will focus on custom ASIC-based IPUs. Intel declined to share any information…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta cleaned laundry rooms to support himself through college and still left Yale Law School with a mountain of debt. Loading audio narration… Bonta says he’d do it all again.”I get a lot of questions from young folks who ask me if law school’s worth it,” Bonta told Business Insider. “I still tell every person to ask me, ‘Yes, it’s worth it.'”A law degree doesn’t come cheap. The Education Data Initiative estimates the average total cost of law school was $217,480 in 2025. That investment looks shakier in the age of artificial intelligence, as software takes…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation was about $2.1 million last year — a roughly 30% increase from 2024. Loading audio narration… Last year, Jassy earned a base salary of $365,000, and business travel and security expenses totaling $1.7 million largely boosted his pay year over year, according to the company’s annual proxy statement, published Thursday.His total pay has fallen since 2021, the last year he received a stock award from Amazon, and Jassy’s first year as CEO. That year, his annual compensation totaled over $200 million.In 2025, Jassy also had $43 million in stock awards that vested, and $242 million in…

Bret Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, is convinced that the way humans interact with software will change in the near future. Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and deploy a specialized agent to execute the task. The idea of replacing software with language-driven prompts is intriguing in large part because many of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures against an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the U.S. said Thursday they settled the case with the Justice Department in a deal that would reverse some of the steps taken.The American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said that they had reached an agreement with the Justice Department that will allow the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences to continue awarding grants and operating programs that support libraries and museums.The White House referred questions to the Justice Department. The Civil Division of…