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📰 In today's Neuronix:

• 💰 Alphabet upsizes $84.75B raise for AI buildout LINK

• 🔎 UK forces Google to offer AI Search opt-out LINK

• 🏭 Monterey Park bans data centers in city ‘first’ LINK

• 💧 UN: AI water use could equal 1.3B people by 2030 LINK

• 📷 Lawsuit: Ring should pay for facial scanning LINK

• ➕ 12 other news & articles you might like

• 🧰 5 trending tools

• 📚 3 trending papers & reports

💰 Alphabet to raise $84.75 billion in upsized equity offering to fund AI ambitions LINK

• Google’s parent is significantly increasing its equity sale to finance its AI push and related infrastructure.

• The move underscores the scale of capital flowing into data centers, chips, and AI products.

• Investor demand for AI exposure remains strong despite market volatility.

🔎 UK rules Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features LINK

• Publishers in the UK will be able to opt out of inclusion in AI Overviews and similar AI-powered search features.

• Website owners can also block their content from being used to fine‑tune Google’s AI models.

• The decision could set a template for publisher controls in other markets.

🏭 In a first, California’s Monterey Park overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban data centers LINK

• Voters backed a citywide prohibition on new data centers, citing mounting local concerns.

• The outcome reflects growing community pushback amid the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

• Other municipalities watching this vote may consider similar measures.

💧 U.N. report warns AI could use as much water as 1.3 billion people by 2030 LINK

• Projected AI-related water demand includes data center cooling and semiconductor manufacturing.

• The report spotlights water as a key constraint for AI growth alongside energy and land.

• It urges policymakers and industry to prioritize transparency and efficiency in AI deployments.

📷 Amazon-owned Ring sued; lawsuit argues Americans should be paid for facial scans LINK

• A new complaint alleges Ring’s systems captured and processed people’s facial data without proper compensation.

• The case seeks to test how biometric privacy laws apply to consumer home‑surveillance tech.

• A ruling could influence data‑collection practices across smart‑camera ecosystems.

🌐 Other news & articles you might like

• Firms are gaming ChatGPT and Google AI Search via Reddit spam, investigation finds LINK

• Failing grades jump in UC Berkeley CS; instructors cite AI reliance and weaker math prep LINK

• Americans rapidly sour on data centers, survey suggests LINK

• U.S. now spends more building data centers than on transportation projects LINK

• DDR5 sticker shock: 32GB now starts at $375 as AI demand bites PC builders LINK

• Ex‑Tesla staff say ‘Full Self‑Driving’ is far from Musk’s claims LINK

• Colorado governor vetoes ‘surveillance pricing’ ban amid public backlash to the tech LINK

• Judge blocks part of federal effort to seize NCAR climate research supercomputer LINK

• Morningstar: SpaceX value far below $1.75T IPO target LINK

• Scorsese draws backlash after praising ‘creatively freeing’ AI LINK

• Amazon search bar is creating AI‑generated products you can’t buy LINK

• Study: Many companies waste AI time savings without strategy, says BCG LINK

🧰 Trending tools

• Microsoft ASSERT: Open-source framework to test AI agents using plain‑text specifications and scenarios. LINK

• Tokenomics Foundation (Linux Foundation): New industry body standardizing how enterprises measure and control AI compute costs. LINK

• Amazon AI Search Images: Experimental Amazon search feature that fabricates AI‑generated product images from queries. LINK

• Animorphs Cover Generator Prompt: Viral prompt/template for generating custom Animorphs‑style transformation covers. LINK

• Spaghetti Benchmark (demo): Community benchmark/demo stress‑testing model reasoning on messy real‑world tasks. LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

• Top models (e.g., GPT‑4o, Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5) fail the classic Stroop attention test, revealing a gap in selective attention vs. language competence. LINK

• Astronomers identify a record‑breaking pair of ultramassive black holes, refining models of galactic mergers and growth. LINK

• A new conductive plastic mimics the electrophysiology of heart muscle cells, pointing to bioelectronic therapies for cardiac disease. LINK