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Public Opposition to AI Data Centres Reaches 71% in US, Creating New Infrastructure Deployment Crisis
A Gallup survey released this week finds that 71% of US adults oppose having an AI data centre in their local area, with 48% strongly opposed — a finding that threatens to seriously constrain the physical infrastructure buildout that the AI industry depends on.
Eplus3D Breaks Three-Metre Metal Powder Bed Fusion Barrier with 256-Laser EP-M3050 System
Chinese metal additive manufacturing firm Eplus3D has unveiled its EP-M3050 ultra-large-format metal powder bed fusion printer featuring a 3050mm build chamber and 256 lasers — the first system to break the three-metre industrial AM barrier for structural aerospace and energy components.
Samsung Faces Biggest-Ever Strike Risk as 45,000 Workers Demand AI Boom Profit Sharing
More than 45,000 Samsung Electronics workers are preparing an 18-day strike starting May 21 in a dispute over dramatically unequal bonus structures between the company's booming memory chip division and its loss-making logic chip and foundry operations — a conflict rooted in the AI-driven memory shortage.
AI-Powered Human Trafficking Detection Tools Enter Operational Law Enforcement Deployment
Advanced data science models trained to identify trafficking networks through pattern recognition across communications, financial, and location data have moved from academic research into operational deployment by law enforcement agencies, raising both capability and civil liberties questions.
Snowflake and OpenAI Deepen Enterprise AI Partnership with Cortex AI Multimodal Data Integration
Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a deepened collaboration that brings the latest OpenAI models into the Snowflake Cortex AI platform, enabling enterprises to analyse text, images, audio, and structured data together using familiar SQL workflows.
