A federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction pausing enforcement of New York's first-in-the-nation state law banning algorithmic rent-setting, after RealPage sued arguing its AI-powered pr…
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni temporarily blocked New York's law restricting landlords' use of RealPage's AI-powered rent-setting software, ruling the state had not shown the regulation was "nar…
WIM-Z, a tracked pet-care robot built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo-8 AI accelerator, reported barking reductions of up to 83% across seven field trials run between May and September 2026, with fou…
Coverage Cat, a licensed insurance brokerage in the Y Combinator S22 batch, launched on Hacker News with an AI-guided intake flow paired with a licensed brokerage team for comparing home, umbrella, au…
Congressional candidate and former Stanford Cyber Policy Center visiting scholar [name not given in source] reports that voters raised AI concerns at every campaign event, with one-third of all questi…
Nearly four dozen US data center projects worth an estimated $68 billion were blocked or delayed in a three-month period, according to Data Center Watch's Q2 2026 insights report, which also counts 84…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that frontier artificial intelligence developers must register with the state government starting in November, ahead of a new law taking effect next year…
Two proposed bills — one federal and one for Minnesota — would establish a statutory right to acquire, possess, develop, share, access and operate computational resources and AI systems for lawful pur…
Top US and Chinese officials held talks in New York on Sunday to discuss an AI safety plan ahead of a Trump-Xi summit this week, according to BBC Technology. The meeting precedes the summit between Pr…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that his government launched a public consultation in August on a new regulatory framework for data centers, citing projections that computing-power elec…
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…
SemiAnalysis estimates that only about 2.3 GW of planned US datacenter capacity is genuinely delayed by local moratoriums and New York's executive order, despite four states acting in under two months…
Former New York assemblymember Alex Bores and former chief of staff Anna Myers launched "Who Decides" on September 15, 2026, a $30 million organization aimed at building a unified AI safety agenda for…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2026, that penalizes large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm, bans addictive feeds for u…
The town of Plattsburgh, New York, held a public hearing on Thursday to discuss a proposed 12-month moratorium on land use for high-energy computing facilities, including cryptocurrency mining and AI …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are among 11 elected officials who have shifted their positions on data centers amid public backlash, with Hochul imposing the first state…
A Gallup poll conducted in March 2026 found that 71% of American adults oppose building an AI data center near their home, with 48% strongly opposed. The opposition has triggered a wave of legislation…
A federal judge struck down New York's law that would have charged fossil-fuel producers $75 billion for climate change damages, ruling that the law conflicts with federal authority under the Clean Ai…
SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, is hiring a Software Engineer for its ML Platform team in San Francisco, with the role focused on building infrastructure for telemetry, data p…