The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, led by CEO John Bozzella, is pressuring U.S. lawmakers to enact a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles and connected hardware and software before the 119th Congres…
Republican candidates in at least five states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, have adopted tougher rhetoric on data centers or proposed restrictions on their development, breaking fr…
Facebook is hosting a wave of Islamophobic AI-generated content inciting violence against Muslim Americans, following a confrontation between far-right agitator Jake Lang and protesters in Dearborn, M…
Residents of Louise Avenue in Dowagiac, Michigan, have endured a mechanical drone measuring between 50 and 62 decibels around the clock for nearly a year, emanating from a data centre whose cooling sy…
Anti-data-center activists are repeating the same failed predictions that marked the anti-fracking movement, according to a New York Post opinion piece. The article cites that US data centers used jus…
Hyperscale Data, an NYSE American-listed firm trading under GPUS, sold 100 Bitcoin from its corporate treasury on July 30, 2026, to fund construction and infrastructure development at its AI data cent…
A Michigan mother shared a mail advertisement featuring AI-generated teddy bear art that was widely mocked on Reddit for its distorted appearance, with one commenter calling it an 'AI nightmare.' The …
Michigan has not enacted a comprehensive AI law, but proposed HB 4668 (2025-26), the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Transparency Act, would require large developers of AI foundation model…
Michigan played pivotal roles in shaping U.S. transportation over the last 250 years, from 19th-century railcar manufacturing to the automobile revolution and today's electric and autonomous vehicle d…
The AI boom is driving a surge in natural gas power plant construction as renewable energy cannot keep pace with data center demand. Environmental advocates and lawmakers in states like New York, Mich…
California consumer confidence rose 1% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, despite economic uncertainty, the Iran war, and a heated governor's race. The present situation in…
Home security camera owners must navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws governing audio and video recording. Video surveillance is generally legal in public areas like living rooms but illegal…
California's broader unemployment measure, the U-6 rate, hit 10% in the third quarter of 2025, the highest in the nation and well above the national median of 7.3%. The state has long ranked high on t…
The parents of a 7-year-old Michigan boy who weighed 255 pounds due to a diet of junk food have been charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and torture. Prosecutors say Casper O'Brien died fro…
Moody's Ratings warned in June 2026 that the rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers is straining electricity and water infrastructure, creating credit risks for state and local governments. At leas…
The Golden State Warriors selected Yaxel Lendeborg with the 11th pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, signaling a commitment to winning now. Lendeborg, a versatile forward from Michigan, is expected to provide…
Michigan lawmakers, led by Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin and Representative Haley Stevens, proposed the Protecting America From Chinese Cars Act, which would ban Chinese-badged vehicles from even …
A new paper co-authored by 37 researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Michigan argues that the traditional paper format is obsolete in the AI era, citing "narrative tax" and …
New Jersey and the Township of Roxbury have intensified their legal fight to block the conversion of a Morris County warehouse into an ICE detention facility, filing new court papers that argue the De…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security defended its plan to convert a Detroit-area warehouse into an immigration detention facility, arguing in a court filing that site selection falls under its bro…