Moody's Ratings warned that rapid data center growth is creating credit risks for state and local governments due to strain on electricity and water infrastructure. At least 14 states have considered …
The AI industry's super PAC, Leading the Future, spent heavily to defeat New York Assembly member Alex Bores in a congressional primary due to his support for AI safety regulations. Bores lost, but th…
London has secured a major strategic win in legal AI, with 25% of top UK and US law firms basing their global senior AI hires in the city, compared to 10% in New York. The UK hosts 315 legaltech and A…
Shift, a startup founded by former Formula One engineer Bercan Kilic, sent camera-wearing cleaners and a chef into a New York apartment to record household tasks for free, testing whether first-person…
Shift, an AI startup, provided free housekeeping and a three-course meal to a New York journalist in exchange for filming her apartment to train robots. The service, which included cleaners and a chef…
Climate change has faded as a top political priority in California and beyond, with voters and investors shifting focus to economic concerns like affordability and inflation. California's primary saw …
New York judges are required to visit jails and prisons annually under a new mandate, sparking criticism from readers who argue the rule favors criminals over victims. Critics suggest judges should in…
Illinois could become the first U.S. state to make driving while wearing AI smart glasses a felony, after the General Assembly approved a bill updating distracted-driving law with no hands-free or sto…
The US government has declined to add Chinese AI firm DeepSeek to its trade blacklists despite documented national security concerns, state-level bans, and congressional legislation. Federal officials…
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bipartisan budget that freezes new data center tax breaks for three years, pausing a program that costs the state $38 million annually. The moratorium aims to add…
A developer built SetTern, an AI-powered dependency resolver for moving abroad, after realizing that international relocation is a graph traversal problem with 27 tasks, unknown dependencies, and dead…
Data from New York's WARN Act filings shows no companies attributed layoffs to AI in the first year of mandatory disclosure, contradicting predictions of mass unemployment. Software engineers remain e…
Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate AI, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are advancing targeted legislation on AI use, including child safety and employer practice…
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI, with New York serving a subpoena demanding records on advertising, user data, minors, and internal policies. The prob…
A MediaScience study of 900 U.S. respondents found that AI-disclosure labels on video ads did not reduce brand choice, ad memory, brand recognition, brand attitude, ad liking, or perceived production …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul faces a December deadline to sign or veto a bill that would impose a one-year moratorium on permits for hyperscale data centers, making the state the first in the nation…
New York’s Legislature is moving to ban new data-center construction for one year, citing concerns over water use, power grid strain, and pollution that critics call unfounded. The moratorium threaten…
TextQL, a New York-based AI data platform founded in 2022 by Ethan Ding and Mark Hay, builds AI agents that enable enterprises to query data across all existing systems. The company aims to serve as a…
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of …
New York's 26-year-old sales tax exemption for internet data centers, originally estimated to cost the state $9 million annually during the dial-up era, is now allowing AI giants to avoid hundreds of …