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Willie Nelson has joined the public opposition to data centers, and the OpenAI Foundation is funding a Common Health Coalition initiative aimed at expanding hepatitis C treatment. On Long Island, former Unitree distributor Teddy Haggerty is trying to manufacture humanoid robots in the United States as Chinese companies already build them more cheaply and at greater scale.
greg report Data center backlash echoes fossil fuel politics: Axios’s Amy Harder reports that Willie Nelson has joined the opposition to data centers, telling his Instagram followers “The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter),” and county planners now have a country legend in the public-comment pile beside the water studies and utility maps.
greg report Common Health Coalition receives funding from OpenAI Foundation for new initiative: The American Hospital Association reports that the OpenAI Foundation is funding the Common Health Coalition’s Breakthroughs to Follow-Through initiative to expand hepatitis C treatment, with AHA executive vice president and COO Michelle Hood saying “Hospitals and health systems are committed to ensuring more people have access to curative hepatitis C treatment,” and the grant becomes real when a care team finds someone lost between diagnosis and treatment and gets that patient back through the clinic door.
greg report America Wants to Make Its Own Humanoid Robots. That Won’t Be Easy.: The New York Times follows Teddy Haggerty, Unitree’s former North American distributor, as he tries to manufacture humanoids on Long Island and sizes up China’s lead with “In China, these things are just walking around the streets,” and the Long Island warehouse now has to make the economics work one robot at a time.
Friday’s Matrix nod finds Morpheus at the county zoning desk, where nobody accepts prophecy in place of a water study.
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