California, Massachusetts, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Oregon regulators advanced measures in late September 2026 requiring data center developers to pay the full incremental cost of electric grid upgr…
Massachusetts now requires data centers larger than 25 megawatts to meet 100% of their electricity demand with clean energy generated on-site or nearby, or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, a stri…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed Executive Order 658 on September 8, requiring AI data centers with peak demand above 25 megawatts to generate clean power onsite, fund new clean generation n…
Protect Progress PAC, an affiliate of the crypto-backed Fairshake PAC, spent just over $189,000 on media to support Representative Jake Auchincloss in Massachusetts' 4th congressional district primary…
Massachusetts lawmakers are advancing energy bills (S.3166 and H.5175) to lower electricity costs, but a proposal to mandate new fixed charges could raise bills for at least 60% of ratepayers, accordi…
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, faced backlash after posting a video criticizing Sen. Ed Markey for being unfamiliar with AI, saying a senator who doesn't understand AI…
An engineer behind Jimmy Knows, a legal AI platform for Massachusetts, argues that the most important feature of legal AI is knowing when not to answer. The system is designed to ask clarifying questi…
The OpenAI Foundation announced a $100 million commitment to the Common Health Coalition to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through (B2F), a national effort using AI to improve health outcomes, startin…
Felix Wong, 33, a Harvard-educated biotech entrepreneur with MIT roots, chose to found his startup in Redwood City, California, despite his Massachusetts upbringing and the state's dominance in biotec…
Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University and former Chief AI Strategist for New Jersey, argues in her new book 'Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy' that AI can strengthen demo…
New York became the first U.S. state to impose a one-year moratorium on large new data centre construction on July 14, 2026, citing rising power costs, water strain, and community burdens, while India…
Anthropic is pushing US states to adopt tougher AI regulations, arguing that existing transparency-focused safety laws from 2025 are no longer sufficient for the most powerful AI systems. Cesar Fernan…
Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state strategy to encourage increasingly tougher AI guardrails, in contrast to OpenAI's push for uniform regulations. Cesar Fernandez, Anthropic's head of U.S. state a…
Massachusetts has not enacted a comprehensive AI law; a bill barring discriminatory automated decision systems (SD.3007) remains in committee, and the state relies on Attorney General Campbell's April…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) will announce a one-year moratorium on state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers using 50 megawatts or more of power, making New York the first sta…
For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software, and AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates, according to a16z. The firm argues that managing AI is harder than managing people bec…
Aimen Moten, a software engineer at Google who moved from Pakistan to the US for college, says AI is changing the role of engineers but she is not worried. She landed a job at Google after strategic i…
California bosses earn a median wage of $143,200, 146% more than the typical worker's $58,200, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report. The state has 1.3 million managers, the most of any sta…
Residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, secured a one-year moratorium on data center construction and expansion, but a new lawsuit alleges that state officials and Markley, the developer of a towering dat…
Elon Musk's $1 trillion net worth could buy 1.3 million California homes at the state's median price of $776,000, or 2.7 million homes nationally at the U.S. median of $368,000, according to a Zillow-…