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Employment law firm Ogletree Deakins warns that U.S. employers can no longer approach artificial intelligence and data compliance through a purely domestic lens. With AI regulation advancing rapidly in the EU and other jurisdictions, firms operating internationally face overlapping rules on data privacy, automated decision-making and worker monitoring, and the firm argues that compliance programs must be built globally from the start.

A dispute over a proposed data center in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, has become a test of the state's Environmental Rights Amendment, which guarantees residents a right to clean air, pure water and a healthy environment. Opponents are invoking the constitutional amendment to challenge the project's approval, and the case is drawing attention to how far the clause reaches in land-use decisions.

A developer has laid out the case that a birth chart is a purely deterministic calculation: the same birth time and place always produce the same result, with no data or randomness involved. That makes the job ideal for local computation, and the argument is that a smartphone is a better astrology computer than a remote server, removing latency, cost and privacy concerns.