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69% of Americans Back AI Sovereign Wealth Fund, Survey Finds
Public support grows for requiring major AI companies to transfer half their equity to a national fund as tech layoffs mount.
Google's New Search Setting Lets Your Photos Train Its AI Models
The Search Services History feature saves images, voice recordings, and files from Google Lens and other tools to improve generative AI—unless you opt out.
Goldman Sachs Names Top Chinese AI Models, Backs Zhipu
The investment bank initiated coverage on publicly traded Zhipu while highlighting DeepSeek and ByteDance as preferred private competitors.
Fed Signals AI Infrastructure Boom May Trigger Rate Hikes
New York Fed President John Williams warns that surging demand for chips, data centers, and power could force the central bank to raise borrowing costs.
Community opposition halts data center projects across US
From Ireland to rural America, local residents are forcing tech companies to abandon or rethink infrastructure plans amid concerns over resources and environmental impact.
Australia Weighs Copyright Exemptions to Attract AI Investment
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces internal Labor divisions over whether to soften protections for creatives in pursuit of datacenter deals.
Fed Chair Warsh Taps Marc Andreessen for AI Policy Task Force
The central bank is building formal machinery to treat artificial intelligence as a factor in setting interest rates, with recommendations due by year-end.
Zhipu AI Founder Defends Open-Source Models Amid Security Debate
Tang Jie argues transparency and broad participation improve AI safety more than restricting access to frontier systems.
Political Campaigns Deploy AI Chatbots to Text Voters at Scale
Bots trained to mimic candidates are conducting thousands of simultaneous conversations while gathering voter preference data, with Republicans adopting the technology faster than Democrats.
TCS to Deploy Up to 8,900 AI Engineers as India IT Faces Disruption
India's largest software services firm is building a forward-deployed engineering team and pursuing AI acquisitions to counter outsourcing threats.
Uber Tightens Litigation Rules as Driver Protests Mount Over AI
The rideshare giant is requiring disclosure of third-party funding in lawsuits while facing organized pushback against automation-driven pay cuts.
Meta Pulls AI Image Generator After Three-Day Privacy Backlash
Muse Image scraped public Instagram photos without explicit consent, drawing fire from Hollywood talent agencies and actors' unions.
Meta's Muse Image AI lets anyone generate images from your Instagram
The new model defaults to using public profiles for AI image creation unless users manually opt out.
VA's AI Deployment Outpaces Safety Protocols, OIG Warns
Inspector General finds clinicians using chatbots for patient care without high-impact classification or adequate tracking of AI-related errors.
New York Village Proposes Year-Long Pause on AI Data Centers
Endicott officials cite water supply, energy grid, and environmental concerns as they prepare to vote on a local moratorium.
Meta Pulls Instagram AI Image Generator After Privacy Backlash
The company removed its Muse Image model from Instagram just days after launch following widespread criticism over automatic opt-in and copyright concerns.
WSU Lab Validates MLB's Automated Strike Zone Technology
Engineers in Pullman spend years testing the pitch-tracking systems that power baseball's challenge system, deploying custom equipment at stadiums nationwide.
Vertiv Acquires ThermoKey to Address AI Cooling Constraints
The deal adds heat-rejection capacity in Europe and extends thermal management reach as rack densities climb.
Microsoft Carbon Emissions Jump 25% as AI Infrastructure Expands
The tech giant's sustainability report reveals how data center growth for artificial intelligence is undermining its carbon-negative pledge.
States Push Clean Energy Rules as AI Data Centers Drive Gas Boom
Lawmakers and advocates race to ensure massive new data facilities don't derail climate goals while utilities struggle to meet unprecedented power demand.
Douglas Elliman CEO Says AI Will Reduce Need for Agents
The brokerage's tech overhaul and accompanying layoffs signal how automation is beginning to reshape residential real estate roles.
Five Dimensions of Sovereign AI That Most Organizations Miss
Data residency is just one quarter of the answer—and the financial sovereignty lesson is hitting CFOs hardest in 2026.
Music Industry Proposes AI Labels for Streaming Tracks
RIAA, Grammys, and SAG-AFTRA unveil voluntary labeling system to distinguish AI-generated from AI-assisted recordings.
Ethereum Foundation AI agents find validator crash bug—and many false positives
Automated tools discovered a remotely triggerable flaw in gossipsub messaging, but human engineers spent more time filtering out confident-sounding hallucinations than finding real vulnerabilities.