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Meta Taps Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan for New Data Center Deal

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas, that could total roughly $13 billion, underscoring Big Tech’s growing reliance on debt to bankroll the infrastructure behind the AI boom.

AI’s Hottest Private Firms Have Booming Crypto Shadow Market

The race to sell retail investors a piece of the AI boom has gone mainstream — closed-end funds, interval funds, special-purpose vehicles. Now, crypto platforms are offering trades tied to the most valuable private AI companies on earth — ones ordinary investors have almost no other way to access.

Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy — They’re the Future: Editorial

For a bunch of unremarkable warehouses, they’re generating a lot of controversy. Data centers — low-slung facilities that house the server racks and energy systems that underpin the digital economy — have become a heated issue on the campaign trail. Politicians from both parties are pushing bills to restrict them. Some want a nationwide “moratorium.” That would be a historic mistake.

AI Liability Risks Mute Impact of Trump’s State-Law Targeting

The Trump adminstration’s aim to sue over state AI regulations it deems unconstitutional will likely have minimal corporate impact.

Meta Is Betting on Power Trading to Support Its AI Expansion

Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants that are vital to its artificial intelligence ambitions.

Big Tech’s Debt Binge Raises Risk in Race to Create an AI World

Equity investors are growing increasingly concerned about the amount of leverage that Big Tech is taking on to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure as the industry faces rising fears of a bubble.

Deepfakes Are Hard to Punish—A Federal Criminal Law Can Fix That

Deepfakes proliferating online can ruin reputations, and the current patchwork of legal recourse is insufficient to protect victims. A federal criminal law can fix that.

EU’s AI, Privacy Rules Revamp Leaves Companies Wanting Clarity

The European Union offered companies pared-down AI, cyber, and privacy rules. Instead, the regulatory relief threatens to complicate compliance.

ChatGPT and Generative AI Are Hits! Can Copyright Law Stop Them?

Could America's intellectual property laws spell doom for the burgeoning field of generative AI? This video explores the brewing battle over copyright and artificial intelligence.

A Big Law Music Dealmaker Explores Future of the Business

Government Accounting Chair Eyes AI, Tech Integration

From Errors to Efficiency: Can AI Transform the Practice of Law?

A Professor Says AI Can Help Solve Contract Disputes

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