Mink farm bird flu could spark a pandemic. Utah officials won't act.
A ProPublica investigation finds H5N1 has spread among Utah mink for two months, with no cull and no worker monitoring despite expert warnings.

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A ProPublica investigation finds H5N1 has spread among Utah mink for two months, with no cull and no worker monitoring despite expert warnings.
The server maker says revenue and profit could land far above guidance, lifting the whole AI hardware complex and raising stakes for upcoming earnings.
Nick Cammarata's Goodfire post has the AI world split - if he's right, monitoring frontier models just got a lot easier.
Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to the open-weight race, but the hardware bar raises a hard question: who can actually use 'open' AI?
On Thursday, Accenture hit its biggest one-day drop on record after forecasting worries that AI could hollow out consulting.
The Nasdaq leads a broad selloff in AI infrastructure stocks, wiping out billions and forcing a reckoning on the cost of AI compute.