AI News for February 8, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] New York lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new data centers: New York state lawmakers introduced a bill imposing a three-year moratorium on permits for new data center construction and operation, joining at least five other states considering similar pauses as AI infrastructure spending surges.
[NEWS] Jensen Huang claims AI "no longer hallucinates," drawing swift rebuttals: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that generative AI is "no longer hallucinating," a claim that is factually incorrect.
[NEWS] AI boom causes shortages across the economy, from construction labor to energy: Massive AI infrastructure spending by tech companies is creating resource constraints in other sectors of the economy, including construction labor, energy, and materials.
[NEWS] Monterey Park, California rallies against datacenter and wins moratorium in six weeks: Five residents of Monterey Park organized a grassroots campaign against a proposed datacenter the size of four football fields.
[RESEARCH] Vercel finds a simple AGENTS.md file beats complex skill systems for AI coding agents: Vercel tested two approaches for keeping AI coding agents up to date: a Skill system where agents actively retrieve documentation, and AGENTS.md, a plain Markdown file providing persistent context.
[NEWS] AI-generated fakes flood Japan's lower house election, shaking voter confidence: Japan's lower house election has become a testing ground for generative AI misinformation.
[NEWS] Meta partners with TerraPower and Oklo to develop 4 GW of nuclear power for AI data centers: Meta partnered with Bill Gates' TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined small modular reactor (SMR) projects, enough to power almost 3 million homes.
[OPINION] Morningstar calls software stock selloff overdone, sees Microsoft and ServiceNow as bargain buys: Morningstar calls the 19% drop in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) from Jan 26 to Feb 5 a buying opportunity, driven by overblown fears that Anthropic's Claude will disrupt the sector.
[NEWS] Tech's massive AI capex risks bond market blowback: The biggest tech companies are gearing up to spend even more on AI than investors anticipated, and money managers increasingly fear credit markets will get hit either way.
[NEWS] Checkr mandates vibe coding for all non-technical employees with stipends and AI days: Checkr, an AI-powered background check company, is requiring all non-technical staff to vibe code their own business apps.

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