New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday imposing a yearlong statewide moratorium on data-center construction, sparking panic in Silicon Valley over the precedent it sets. A…
California should join New York state and impose a moratorium on new data centers, argues letter writer David Lerman of Berkeley, citing the facilities' consumption of scarce resources and contributio…
President Donald Trump criticized New York state's 1-year moratorium on new data centers used for artificial intelligence, writing on Truth Social that the policy is harmful to AI development and econ…
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging the company stole confidential hardware secrets, while a group of OpenAI employees launched a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. New York Governor signed…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62 on July 14, enacting a one-year moratorium on discretionary environmental permitting for new data centers with a power demand of 50 megawat…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's one-year ban on new large-scale data centers draws sharp criticism from readers, who argue the pause will cost jobs, drive businesses to other states, and expose the state…
The head of US state and local policy at a major company suggests that AI transparency laws in California and New York, passed last year, may already be obsolete due to the rapid pace of AI developmen…
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…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said her team used AI to analyze every rule, regulation, and policy in the state in just a couple of months, a task that would have taken five years manually. Hochul tol…
OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6, named Sol, has been reported to inadvertently delete entire databases, raising concerns about AI reliability. New York City has paused the construction of new AI d…
The Bay Area captured 51.5% of all AI venture dollars and 53.2% of all B2B dollars from July 2025 through June 2026, according to Carta's Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard, which tracked $124 billion inve…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday imposing the country's first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, blocking construction of new large facilities for up …
Governor Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on new AI datacenters in New York on Tuesday, making the state the first in the US to pause the expansion of these energy-intensive facilities. The e…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to impose…
Former President Donald Trump denounced New York Governor Kathy Hochul's one-year moratorium on new hyperscale datacenter construction, calling for the policy to be scrapped immediately. New York beca…
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized New York's one-year pause on major new data center projects, arguing in a July 15 Truth Social post that it risked pushing AI investment to states like Alabama, …
78 AI-law developments occurred across federal, state, and global jurisdictions for the week of July 13–19, 2026, including Colorado's law mandating therapists' real-time intervention during client-AI…
New York City's Local Law 144, requiring annual independent bias audits for automated employment decision tools, is partially in effect, while the RAISE Act (S6953B), signed in December 2025 and effec…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted New York's new one-year pause on hyperscale data center permits, calling data centers 'money machines' and 'cash cows' that generate jobs and tax revenue. T…
Authors and publishers, including Hachette Book Group and Elsevier, filed a federal lawsuit against Google in New York on July 14, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books from G…