🏗️ America's AI building boom is hitting a wall

💸 YouTube Premium raises prices across all plans

🫀 Oxford AI spots heart failure risk five years early

🏦 Perplexity adds bank account access to its AI agent

🇫🇷 France plans to move government computers from Windows

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About half of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellations, per Bloomberg, as supply chain bottlenecks and thin domestic manufacturing capacity stall construction across the board.

Analysts at Sightline Climate found that data centers totaling 12 gigawatts were announced for 2026, but only a third had even broken ground. A single delayed component can freeze an entire project.

While tech companies blame supply chains, many Americans are cheering the slowdowns. Communities near planned sites have pushed back hard over noise, water use, and air quality concerns.

YouTube is hiking Premium prices across all tiers in June, with individual plans jumping from $14 to $16 and family plans rising from $23 to $27, per emails sent directly to subscribers rather than any public announcement.

The Lite and YouTube Music plans each go up $1, pushing Music Premium to $12 per month, now pricier than Apple Music as a standalone. YouTube last raised prices in 2023, also by $2.

Spotify hiked prices in February, Netflix raised them last month, and now YouTube joins the streak. Streaming services have quietly made "temporary introductory pricing" a permanent business model.

Oxford researchers built an AI that reads invisible fat texture changes around the heart in routine CT scans, flagging high-risk patients up to five years before heart failure strikes, with 86% accuracy across 72,000 patients.

In the highest-risk group, 1 in 4 patients developed heart failure within five years, a 20x gap versus low-risk patients. Oxford is already in talks with regulators to deploy the tool across NHS hospitals.

The tool works on scans patients are already getting, so it adds early warning without adding new procedures. That's a rare case where better outcomes cost the system almost nothing extra.

Perplexity's Computer agent now connects to 12,000+ banks via Plaid, letting users pull in checking, credit, loan, and brokerage data and build budgets or debt payoff plans through text prompts.

The Plaid integration follows Perplexity's U.S. tax tool that auto-fills IRS forms, part of a broader agentic push that helped push its ARR past $450M in March, a 50% monthly jump.

Perplexity started as a Google rival, but its Computer agent is now going after Mint and TurboTax. The search engine accidentally became a finance app.

France announced it will migrate government computers from Windows to Linux, as part of a broader push for digital sovereignty and reduced reliance on U.S. tech companies.

The move follows France dropping Microsoft Teams for French-made Visio, and fits a wider European trend after the EU Parliament voted in January to identify ways to cut dependence on foreign tech providers.

France gave no timeline or preferred Linux distribution, so this is more declaration than plan for now. Still, Microsoft losing a whole government's worth of licenses is never just symbolic.

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