Meta told the IRS it is treating its multi-billion-dollar AI data centers as experimental expenditures under IRC Section 174A, a classification enabled by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed in 2025…
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that the IRS lacks consistent data documentation for its AI use case inventory, with only 20 percent (1 of 5) of reviewed cases having testi…
A developer built retirement-answer-check, a tool that gates AI-drafted answers to retirement questions as SEND or REVIEW using plain code for numeric facts plus two model judges for non-numeric claim…
U.S. agencies including the IRS, Social Security Administration, and Department of Veterans Affairs are turning to data and AI to optimize citizen service delivery as they face shrinking budgets and r…
A Brookings analysis from April 2026 found that nearly 60% of reported federal AI use cases with available deployment information are still in pilot or pre-deployment, and a March 2026 GAO review foun…
The Trump administration proposed a rule on Thursday that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on race, affecting up to 1…
Google's August 2026 spam update ran from August 18 to August 21, and the company updated its site reputation abuse policy to exempt searchers in the EEA. Google also began pushing AI Mode into AI Ove…
Google announced it will not enforce manual actions under its site reputation abuse policy in the European Economic Area (EEA) starting August 30, 2026, due to a mandate from the European Commission, …
A 61-year-old software project manager who lost his job to an AI platform in December paid federal tax on $18,000 of unemployment compensation, but his Social Security earnings record for the same yea…
Roopika Risam, a Dartmouth professor, argues in her new book "Data Empire" that data collection has always been about power, tracing it from Ice Age cave markings to modern AI systems. Her research, s…
A developer argues that large language models should never have the final say on money-moving decisions like tax, discounts, and pricing. Citing TaxCalcBench, which shows frontier models like Gemini 2…
Digital nomads can form a US LLC remotely without a US address or SSN, gaining access to payment processors like Stripe and US banking through fintechs. Wyoming, Delaware, and New Mexico are top state…
Rational Animations, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit producing animated videos on AI safety, is seeking at least two independent board members to join its current three-person board, which consists entirely of …
Registering a corporation in Canada costs between $200 and $397 CAD, with additional hundreds in licensing fees and annual tax filing expenses ranging from $300 to $1,500, according to a founder's ana…
A new NBER study finds that data center expansion in U.S. counties boosts total employment, construction jobs, house prices, and electricity prices. Researchers used facility-level data and shift-shar…
A startup operations checklist outlines 14 categories of back-office tasks, divided into one-time setup actions and recurring ongoing responsibilities. The framework covers legal incorporation, bankin…
Senator Ted Cruz reported that during a closed-door briefing with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, numerous Republican senators angrily confronted him over the Trump administration's $1.8 billion…
Senator Ted Cruz reported that during a closed-door meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, numerous Republican senators angrily confronted him over the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion …