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Yesterday in AI | 10 August 2026
70% of Americans Oppose Data Centers, YouTube Collateral Damage, and OpenAI's Wiggly Donut
Artificial intelligence infrastructure, content filters, and hardware ambitions collided with local communities and environmental limits this weekend. This episode breaks down new polling showing 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, while Amazon finances a 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas permitted for 33 million tons of annual carbon emissions.
We explore ByteDance reportedly training a massive 10-trillion parameter model, analyze YouTube's "AI slop" crackdown accidentally burying legitimate human creators, cover OpenAI quietly acquiring slide-generation startup NextSlide, and examine reports detailing OpenAI's $300-$400 screenless "donut" hardware device being designed with Jony Ive.
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