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Why the departure of OpenAI’s data center chief is not a good look

AI Decoded is a newsletter from Fast Company that breaks down important AI news. Chris Malone, who was hired to manage OpenAI's data center build-out, has left the company. This departure comes amid significant investment in data centers by AI labs like OpenAI to support customer demand and research. OpenAI has projected massive compute budgets through 2030 and is adjusting its infrastructure strategy. Bill Gates expressed anxiety about society's slow response to AI's transformative effects. He discussed potential job displacement, new security threats, and harm to children's development. Gates proposed creating "human reserved" jobs, taxing AI tokens and robots, and establishing new regulatory bodies. The SEC is investigating hedge fund Situational Awareness due to its significant decline after AI-related trades. Microsoft is facing scrutiny for not providing specific earnings data for its Azure cloud services. A new Chinese open-weights AI model, GLM-5.3-Flash, developed by Z.ai, has gained prominence on AI leaderboards. This model boasts a large context window and operates on Chinese AI chips.
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