The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection fined DataOne, an AI data center operator in Vineland, New Jersey, $1.07 million after the facility installed and operated 62 natural gas generato…
Maryland's Protection From Predatory Pricing Act, House Bill 895, takes effect October 1, 2026, allowing the Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division to begin enforcing the state's ban…
As of Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, no U.S. state has a ban on data centers, though New York is the first and only state to enact a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers statewide, according…
Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization pilot, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, launched in January in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington and wi…
More than 10 states, including Illinois, New Jersey and Washington, have curbed or reversed tax breaks for data centers, according to the Wall Street Journal, as state leaders who once welcomed the fa…
As of September 1, 2026, no public enforcement actions have been reported under the European Union's Article 50 transparency obligations, which became enforceable on August 2, 2026, but the EU AI Offi…
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement new kid-safety guardrails in a settlement with dozens of states, cutting short a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, over claims that Inst…
Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, Srikanth Thirumalai, published a blog post on Wednesday arguing that cameras alone are insufficient for safe fully autonomous driving, stating 'Cameras are incredible, …
Adam Mosseri, the Meta executive at the helm of Instagram, defended the platform's safety record in testimony Tuesday at a federal trial in Oakland, California, where the states of California, Colorad…
Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testified Wednesday at a landmark federal trial in Oakland, California, that Instagram took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach to children under 13, prior…
Lewis Liu, a journalist, drove 3,000 miles from Short Hills, New Jersey, to Palo Alto, California, and observed that much of America is being left behind by the AI-driven economy. He saw boarded-up do…
California accused Meta on Tuesday of studying 'vulnerabilities in teens' brains' to hook children on Facebook and Instagram, then concealing the harm, in opening statements of a federal trial in Oakl…
Meta Platforms Inc. goes on trial this week in Oakland, California, over allegations that it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children, concealed the resulting harm, and illegally collected youn…
State legislators across the U.S. are enacting or considering laws to force data center operators to share the financial burden of their energy consumption, with Virginia's Data Center Electricity Con…
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning grocery stores from using personal data to set individual prices, with fines up to $10,000 for first offenses and $20,0…
A nationwide protest against AI data centers, organized by the right-wing nonprofit Humans First, drew demonstrators in Kenilworth, New Jersey, on Saturday as part of a National Day of Action targetin…
Protesters across the US rallied Saturday against AI data centers in a nationwide demonstration organized by Humans First, a conservative nonprofit founded by Amy Kremer. The group planned over 100 de…
New Jersey has proposed bill A4115, which would require impact assessments for automated decision systems affecting employment and housing, according to the AI Law Tracker.…
Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing platform founded in 2012 by University of Washington computer science professor Jon Froehlich, uses AI and volunteer labelers to catalog sidewalk issues like …
New Jersey is considering a bill that would require fully autonomous vehicles to use cameras plus at least two other sensing technologies like lidar and radar, effectively banning Tesla's camera-only …