Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' movement are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his promotion of coal to power AI data centers, c…
A new investigation by Vanderbilt University, Northeastern University, and the University of California at Berkeley found that common workplace monitoring programs have shared names, email addresses, …
The United Arab Emirates announced on August 19, 2026, a halt to all trade and financial dealings with Iran, a move reported by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Associated Press. Separately…
OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT designed for users aged 13 to 17, with stricter safeguards around sensitive topics and a ban on pretending to have emotions. The company uses over 2,000 behavi…
The Trump administration deferred nearly $870 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota, citing suspected fraud, but provided no concrete examples, according to the Asso…
An Associated Press investigation found that more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops have been detained under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, with at least six depo…
Muck Rack's 2026 State of Journalism report, released on March 19th, found that 82% of journalists used at least one AI tool, up from 77% a year earlier, with ChatGPT at 47%, transcription tools at 40…
A record eight entries honored at the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes disclosed using AI, including five winners, with newsrooms such as the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press using large language models m…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers during a Washington visit to help secure Elon Musk's permission to use Starlink satellite communications for gui…
The Salamanca City Central School District in rural New York has paused its nearly $60,000 program to deploy an AI-driven robot assistant teacher from Realbotix, citing student data privacy concerns a…
LinkedIn has introduced a 'Seems like AI slop' button that lets users report low-quality AI-generated posts, according to a post by Hari Srinivasan, the company's chief product officer. The platform i…
The European Commission is adding 38 staff to its AI Office to enforce Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which takes effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI-generated content, with fin…
Federal regulators approved Amazon's Zoox fully autonomous vehicles to charge for rides without steering wheels, pending state and local approval, and proposed a rule to allow robotaxis without brake …
Amazon reported July 30 that Amazon Web Services second-quarter sales rose 37% to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in 18 quarters, with operating income up to $16.6 billion from $10.2 billion a year …
Kioxia Holdings reported a 46-fold surge in profit attributable to owners of parent to ¥842.2 billion for the June quarter, with revenue rising to ¥1.767 trillion, but shares fell 18% on July 28 amid …
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix posted a combined 150 trillion won in operating profit for the quarter ended June 30, with Samsung reporting 89.5 trillion won and SK Hynix 60.5 trillion won, both rec…
Microsoft closed fiscal 2026 with $331.8 billion in revenue, up 18%, as Azure crossed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time with 41% growth, accelerating to 43% in the June quarter, while …
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened a tender on July 30 to select consortia for up to seven AI Gigafactories, with proposals due November 12, 2026. The EU and member states are offering €10 billion i…
Samsung Electronics reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a more than 19-fold increase from a year earlier, driven by surging demand for AI m…
Democrat Paige Cognetti, the Scranton mayor, is running a $200,000 TV ad blitz against AI data centers in her bid to unseat freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan in a Pennsylvania swing district, acc…