July 5, 2025

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Lake County approves $9.1 million bike path paving project

Lake County approved a $9.1 million contract to pave just over 12 miles of the Robert McClory Bike Path, with additional future crossing improvements planned in the future. The 25-mile trail, named after the eponymous Illinois State Representative in the late 1990s, was formerly a rail line between Chicago and Milwaukee. The sections in question

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Dispatch Energy Receives $160 Million Investment from Terramont Infrastructure Partners

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 13, 2025 / Terramont Infrastructure Partners (“Terramont”), a middle-market-focused North American infrastructure investment manager, has made a $160 million capital commitment to Dispatch Energy LLC (“Dispatch”), a leading provider of distributed energy solutions. Funds managed by Hamilton Lane participated as co-lead investors alongside Terramont. Dispatch Energy

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Scale AI confirms ‘significant’ investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving

Data-labeling company Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a “significant” investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion. The startup also said its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang is stepping down from his role to join Meta and help the bigger company with its AI work. Reports indicate that Meta

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EU Will Need $280 Billion Investment to Boost Nuclear Energy

The plans of many EU countries to boost nuclear power capacities will need an investment of as much as $278 billion (241 billion euros), according to estimates by the European Commission. Many EU countries have drafted plans to increase nuclear power capacity or even return to nuclear energy after decades of no nuclear generation, as

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Meta beefs up disappointing AI division with $15 billion Scale AI investment

Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, with the majority of its planned $72 billion in capital expenditure this year earmarked for data centers and servers. The deal underlines the high price AI companies are willing to pay for data that can be used to train AI models. Zuckerberg pledged last year that his company’s

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Major investment in Tribal energy sovereignty and sustainability

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa unveiled a new biomass heating facility at the Brookston Community Center. The opening featured Fond du Lac Band Leadership, project partners, and a traditional blessing. The facility will use wood chips from a local forestry business that feed a large boiler that sends heat to the

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Germany puts rail first in €500bn investment spree

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany plans to make its faulty railway network its first priority as it seeks to fast-track spending from its €500bn infrastructure fund designed to lift Europe’s largest economy out of stagnation. Vice-chancellor and finance minister

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States demand that Meta stop investment scam ads

• A bipartisan coalition of 42 state attorneys general sent a letter to Meta demanding immediate action against investment scam advertisements running on Facebook and other platforms • Scam ads use images of well-known investors to lure users into “pump and dump” schemes through WhatsApp groups, with some victims losing their entire life savings •

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Amazon commits $20 billion for data centers in Pennsylvania’s historic deal

Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., discusses President Donald Trump’s executive orders to boost U.S. energy on ‘Kudlow.’ EXCLUSIVE: When Sen. David McCormick was growing up in Bloomsburg – at the edge of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region – he never envisioned the area being economically revitalized as a linchpin for the cloud computing and AI industries, he

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7 Essential Strategies for Securing AI

Key takeaways Targeted large language model (LLM) testing is crucial to uncover hidden vulnerabilities that traditional security metrics miss. Implementing a proactive security framework for robust LLM deployment is key to ensuring secure and effective AI adoption.  Fujitsu’s ‘LLM vulnerability scanner’ can assess LLMs against 7,700 attack vectors and mitigate potential threats. Imagine using an

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