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Arizona (statewide HB 2756)

AZ HB 2756: Require data centers to fund grid upgrades via HB 2756

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Legislative action date (2026-02-01) tracked by AI Data Center Legislation Tracker.^[1]

Arizona: HB 2756 protects retail electricity customers from data center grid connection costs. Additional bills HB 2795 (preempts counties from preventing SMR construction near data centers) also advanced. Several other proposals (HB 2452, HB 4009, HB 2457) were killed or failed. The outcome remains pending. The community's stated objective was to require data centers to fund grid upgrades via HB 2756. VERIFIED 2026-05-26: Companion HB 2795 (SMR preemption) failed the Senate April 8 (a win on that piece), while HB 2756 (ratepayer protection) was still advancing; AZ's session ran into a late-May/June budget fight, so HB 2756's final signature/veto could not be confirmed. FLAG for re-check.

Virginia (statewide HB 1515 moratorium)

VA HB 1515: Require conditional use permits for data centers in VA

Starts 02/01/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE

Legislative action date (2026-02-01) tracked by AI Data Center Legislation Tracker.^[1]

Would prohibit localities from granting final approvals for rezonings, special permits, and site plans for new data centers until existing grid interconnection requests are fulfilled or July 1, 2028. Introduced by Del. Irene Shin (D-Fairfax County). A House subcommittee voted to carry the bill over to the 2027 session, effectively killing it for 2026. Virginia's legislature considered over 60 data center-related bills this session.

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TN SB 2128: Require data center owners to pay full infrastructure costs in TN

Tennessee (statewide)

Legislative action date (2026-02-01) tracked by AI Data Center Legislation Tracker.^[1]

Tennessee: Requires data center owners to pay full infrastructure costs (SB 2128), establishes data center impact reviews (SB 2653), addresses tariff structures (SB 1999), amends qualified data center tax provisions (SB 2584), and ties WARN Act/labor compliance to tax credits (HB 2047). Multiple bills pending in the 114th General Assembly, deferred to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee hearing March 10, 2026. VERIFIED 2026-05-26: Of roughly seven TN data center bills, only the industry-friendly self-generation bill (Public Chapter 961) passed; the impact-review and other bills died at sine die Apr 23.

Darren Criss Hosts the 2026 Grammys Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater

Peacock Theater, 777, Chick Hearn Court, South Park, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90015, United States

Starts 02/01/2026 8:30PM UTCCONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE

Darren Criss Hosts the 2026 Grammys Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater

The Recording Academy's release says the Premiere Ceremony would stream live "at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT" on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026 from Peacock Theater.^[1]

Grammy nominee Darren Criss hosted the Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater on 1 February 2026, where the bulk of that year's Grammys were presented ahead of the main telecast.

'Golden' From 'KPop Demon Hunters' Becomes the First K-Pop Song to Win a Grammy

Peacock Theater, 777, Chick Hearn Court, South Park, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90015, United States

Starts 02/01/2026 8:30PM UTCCONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE

'Golden' From 'KPop Demon Hunters' Becomes the First K-Pop Song to Win a Grammy

Variety^[1][5] reports the win "presented in the pre-telecast ceremony Sunday afternoon", Feb. 1, 2026; the Premiere Ceremony streamed from 12:30 p.m. PT.

Golden, the Huntr/x hit from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, won Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026, the first Grammy ever won by a K-pop song.

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02/02/2026

-282 days

腊月十五 California Kiwifruit Day Eating kiwifruit

Finance09/24/2026@EnterpriseDesk

Oracle Raises $30 Billion From a $25 Billion Bond Sale and Convertible Preferred

2300, Oracle Way, Lakeshore, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78741, United States

Oracle

Starts 02/02/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE

The notes' pricing term sheet gives "Trade Date: February 2, 2026" and the preferred's "Pricing Date: February 2, 2026".^[1]

The day after its funding plan, Oracle sold $25 billion of notes in eight tranches and $5 billion of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock, drawing what it called a record, substantially oversubscribed order book.

$30B

AI10/12/2026@AIDesk

Step 3.5 Flash Released

Shanghai, China

StepFun

Starts 02/02/2026CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE

AIBase's^[6] 2 February 2026 report calls it StepFun's^[1][3] "latest open-source foundation model" with code on GitHub and weights on Hugging Face^[2], and the GitHub repository's first commit is dated 2 February; OpenRouter listed it from 29 January and the Hugging Face repo was created on 1 February UTC, so the public launch day is 2 February.

StepFun open-sources Step 3.5 Flash, a 196B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts with 11B active parameters, a 256K context and up to 350 tokens per second, scoring 74.4% on SWE-bench Verified under Apache 2.0.

AI10/04/2026@AIDesk

Snowflake and OpenAI Forge US$200 Million Partnership

Bozeman, Montana, United States

Snowflake

Starts 02/02/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE

Snowflake's^[1] press release is datelined "BOZEMAN, Mont. - February 2, 2026"; the Business Wire^[4] copy carries 20260202 in its URL and Pulse 2^[3].0 (Feb 6) and THE Journal^[2] (Feb 10) report the same announcement.

On 2 February 2026 Snowflake announced a multi-year, US$200 million partnership that makes OpenAI models, including GPT-5.2, natively available to its 12,600 customers in Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence.

$200M

Billie Eilish and Finneas Win a Record Third Song of the Year, for "Wildflower"

Crypto.com Arena, 1111 South Figueroa Street, South Park, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90015, United States

Starts 02/02/2026 1:00AM UTCCONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE

Billie Eilish and Finneas Win a Record Third Song of the Year, for "Wildflower"

Rolling Stone's^[1] report is dated February 1, 2026 and says "Wildflower" won Song of the Year "on Sunday" with Carole King presenting; the telecast ran 8-11:30 p.m. ET.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas won Song of the Year for "Wildflower" at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026, becoming the most-awarded artists in the category with three wins each.

AI10/24/2026@AIDesk

Grok Imagine 1.0 Released With 10-Second 720p Video

1450 Page Mill Road, Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto, California, USA (xAI, a SpaceX subsidiary; also Bastrop, Texas)

xAI

Grok Imagine 1.0 Released With 10-Second 720p Video

Starts 02/02/2026CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE

xAI's post ('Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet', embedded by Gigazine^[1] and TechSpot^[2]) is dated 2 February 2026; Wikipedia's^[5] Grok article says 1 February, and some blogs give 3 February, so the date of xAI's own announcement is used.

xAI launches Grok Imagine 1.0, its 'biggest leap yet': 10-second videos at 720p with dramatically better audio, announced alongside a claim of 1.245 billion videos generated in the previous 30 days.

Kendrick Lamar Becomes the Most-Awarded Rapper in Grammy History

Crypto.com Arena, 1111 South Figueroa Street, South Park, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90015, United States

Starts 02/02/2026 1:00AM UTCCONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE

Kendrick Lamar Becomes the Most-Awarded Rapper in Grammy History

Variety's^[1][5] story is stamped Feb. 1, 2026 and says Lamar "is officially the most-awarded hip-hop artist in Grammys history"; the telecast ran 8-11:30 p.m. ET at Crypto.com Arena.

Kendrick Lamar won Best Rap Album and Record of the Year ("luther" with SZA) among his wins at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026 and passed Jay-Z as the most-awarded rapper in Grammy history; outlets reported 26 or 27 career Grammys depending on when they wrote.

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02/03/2026

-281 days

腊月十六 Japan's Setsubun Bean throwing Ehomaki rolls National Carrot Cake Day Eating carrot cake

Finance10/04/2026@EconDesk

Walmart Becomes First Retailer Worth US$1 Trillion

702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Walmart

Starts 02/03/2026CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE

Bloomberg Law^[1] (published 2026-02-03) says Walmart's market cap passed $1 trillion 'on Tuesday for the first time ever'; 3 February 2026 was a Tuesday; Wikipedia^[2] dates it February 2026.

On 3 February 2026 a 2.9% rally to a record close of US$127.71 pushed Walmart's market value past US$1 trillion for the first time, a week into John Furner's tenure as CEO.

Business10/04/2026@EconDesk

Disney Names Josh D'Amaro Its Next CEO to Succeed Bob Iger

500 S Buena Vista St, Burbank, CA, United States

The Walt Disney Company

Disney Names Josh D'Amaro Its Next CEO to Succeed Bob Iger

Starts 02/03/2026CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE

Disney's announcement is dated February 3, 2026 ("a unanimous vote held on Monday"); Wikipedia^[2][3] states "On February 3, 2026, Iger named D'Amaro his successor".

On 3 February 2026 Disney's board announced it had unanimously elected Disney Experiences chairman Josh D'Amaro as CEO, effective at the 18 March 2026 annual meeting. Dana Walden was named president and chief creative officer.

Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

Oracle Shareholders File Securities Fraud Class Action in Delaware

J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building, 844, North King Street, Downtown, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19801, United States

Oracle

Starts 02/03/2026CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE

The complaint in Case 1:26-cv-00127 is stamped 'Filed 02/03/26'; Kessler Topaz's notice says the action 'was filed on February 3, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware'.^[1]

Barrows v. Oracle says Oracle misled investors that its AI data-center spending for OpenAI would quickly turn into revenue, covering stock bought June-December 2025.

Health10/04/2026@HealthDesk

Novo Nordisk Guides 2026 Sales Down 5-13% After 10% Growth in 2025

Novo Allé 1, Bagsværd, Denmark

Novo Nordisk

Starts 02/03/2026CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE

Novo's report is dated "Bagsværd, Denmark 3 February 2026" (published 2026-02-03T16:38Z) and states the earnings call would follow on 4 February.^[1]

On 3 February 2026 Novo Nordisk reported 2025 sales up 10% at constant exchange rates to DKK 309.1 billion but guided 2026 adjusted sales and operating profit down 5-13%, citing lower US prices and competition.

Sports10/18/2026@TravelDesk

San Diego FC at Snapdragon Stadium — San Diego seasonal activity

2101 Stadium Way, San Diego, CA 92108

Snapdragon Stadium

02/03/2026 - 11/07/2026SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCE

Stated: San Diego FC’s^[1] published 2026 home schedule starts with February 3 CONCACAF play and ends regular-season home play November 7. This span excludes any unconfirmed later playoff dates.

The city's MLS club plays its home matches in Mission Valley.

Infrastructure10/19/2026@EnergyDesk

ACWA Consortium Signs $4.1bn Kuwait Az-Zour North 2 and 3 Power-Water Deal

Az-Zour, Al Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait

ACWA Power

ACWA Consortium Signs $4.1bn Kuwait Az-Zour North 2 and 3 Power-Water Deal

Starts 02/03/2026CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE

ACWA Power's^[1] own news release, dated 3 February 2026, reports the signing in Riyadh witnessed by Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman; Zawya (4 Feb 2026) and Smart Water Magazine^[5] (4 Feb 2026) report the same signing.

On 3 February 2026 an ACWA Power and Gulf Investment Corporation consortium signed a 25-year energy conversion and water purchase agreement worth about $4.1bn with Kuwait for 2,700 MW of gas power and up to 120 MIGD of seawater desalination at Az-Zour North phases 2 and 3.

$4.1B

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02/04/2026

-280 days

腊月十七 National Homemade Soup Day Eating homemade soup

Business10/04/2026@ChipDesk

Texas Instruments Agrees to Buy Silicon Labs for US$7.5 Billion

12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, United States

Texas Instruments

Starts 02/04/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE

TI's own release is datelined 'DALLAS and AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/' and CNBC^[2] published the story on 4 Feb 2026.

On 4 February 2026 Texas Instruments and Silicon Labs signed a definitive agreement under which TI will acquire the Austin wireless-chip maker for US$231 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about US$7.5 billion.

$7.5B

Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

EEOC Takes Nike to Court to Force Hand-Over of DEI Bias Records

Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse, 111, South 10th Street, Downtown, Saint Louis, Missouri, 63102, United States

Nike

Starts 02/04/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE

The EEOC^[1] press release dated 02-04-2026 says the agency "announced today" it had filed the action, and the motion to enforce is stamped "Filed: 02/04/26".

The EEOC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Nike in federal court in St. Louis on 4 February 2026, seeking workforce data for its probe of whether Nike's DEI targets led to discrimination against white workers.

Defense10/04/2026@DefenseDesk

Raytheon Signs Five Framework Deals to Multiply US Missile Production

Raytheon, South Raytheon Parkway, Tucson, Arizona, United States

RTX

Raytheon Signs Five Framework Deals to Multiply US Missile Production

Starts 02/04/2026CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE

RTX's^[1] release is datelined 'TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/' and Naval News^[3] published it the same day.

On 4 February 2026 Raytheon, an RTX business, signed five up-to-seven-year framework agreements with the US Department of War to raise annual output of Tomahawk to over 1,000, AMRAAM to at least 1,900 and SM-6 to over 500, and to expand SM-3 interceptor production.

Sports10/03/2026@FashionDesk

On Becomes First Private Partner of Switzerland 2038 Olympic Bid

190, Förrlibuckstrasse, Escher Wyss, Industriequartier, Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zürich, 8005, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra

On Holding

On Becomes First Private Partner of Switzerland 2038 Olympic Bid

Starts 02/04/2026 9:00AM UTCCONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCE

On's own release page is stamped datePublished 2026-02-04T09:00:00+00:00 and datelined 'ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, February 4, 2026 - Swiss sportswear brand On becomes the first private partner of the Swiss bid'; no term is stated for the guarantee.^[1]

On became the first private partner of Switzerland's bid for the 2038 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with a financial contribution equal to 10% of the private deficit guarantee, reported by Sportcal as CHF 20 million.

≈$22.7M

Law09/24/2026@LawDesk

Class Action Says Ferrara's Nerds and Laffy Taffy Contain Toxic Arsenic

Dirksen Federal Building and US Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604, United StatesFerrero

Starts 02/04/2026CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE

The docket shows 'Date Filed: Feb. 4, 2026' and entry 1, 'COMPLAINT (Class Action^[2]) filed by Christina Anstett'.

A proposed nationwide class action filed in Chicago accused Ferrero's Ferrara Candy Company of failing to warn that Nerds, Laffy Taffy, SweeTarts, Trolli and Black Forest gummies carry arsenic, citing State of Florida lab tests.