# 🤖 Cities Are Banning AI Datacenters, Microsoft Just Ditched OpenAI & The $2K Film Shaking Tribeca

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Podcast: [AI News Podcast | Latest AI News, Analysis & Events | Daily Inference](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-news-podcast-latest-ai-news-analysis-events-daily-inference-7298177)
Published: 2026-06-04T10:05:37+00:00
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## Resource

The AI infrastructure wars just hit American neighborhoods — Seattle is moving to freeze new datacenter construction while one California city just made history with a first-of-its-kind voter ban. Microsoft used its biggest annual event to announce a stunning break from OpenAI, unveiling its own homegrown reasoning model and an always-on AI assistant embedded across your daily work apps. Amazon's warehouse robots now understand plain English, and the company is simultaneously rolling out AI-generated product visuals for items that may not even exist yet. Google's new personal AI agent is raising alarm bells after journalists discovered it already knew private details about them before they said a word. On the safety front, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing lawmakers for tighter controls on synthetic biology, while a Trump executive order creates a voluntary — not mandatory — pathway for AI companies to share powerful models with the federal government. An Iranian-British filmmaker just screened what's believed to be the world's first fully AI-generated feature film at a major festival, produced for around two thousand dollars. And Martin Scorsese is facing backlash for something far less radical. The cultural, political, and infrastructure battles around AI are no longer on the horizon — they're happening right now. Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.com Love AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio

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