A growing backlash against AI data centers is sweeping the U.S., with more than 300 cities, towns, and counties imposing bans or moratoriums on hyperscale data center construction, according to The In…
Big Tech's massive investments in artificial intelligence are squeezing free cash flow, according to a Reuters analysis, as companies pour billions into data centers and AI infrastructure with uncerta…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. shares fell as much as 7.1% on July 22, their sharpest intraday drop since April 2025, as investors worried about slowing mobile gaming revenue and rotated toward companies with …
Major publishers including Reddit, Reuters, USA Today, and People are reportedly considering blocking Google's web crawlers to prevent their content from being used in AI-generated search results, acc…
The Trump administration is exploring taking equity stakes in AI companies, with OpenAI holding preliminary talks about giving Washington a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion at the company's $852 b…
The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on AI infrastructure this year, with combined capital spending set to overtake the cash their core businesses generate, …
XAI filed a civil breach-of-contract lawsuit on July 14, 2026, against Terry Wayne Harwood, alleging he used multiple Grok accounts to generate or alter sexualized images involving adults and minors i…
A US federal court has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit over using authors' books without permission to train its AI model Claude, marking the largest such settle…
A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over copyright claims, making it the largest known copyright settlement in U.S. history…
Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Tuesday as semiconductor shares extended a recovery from a recent selloff, with investors awaiting major tech earnings for clues on the future of the AI tra…
Tesla's accelerating cash burn is set to test investor confidence in the company's heavy spending on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology, according to Reuters. The automaker's ca…
A nationwide wave of 142 protests in 42 U.S. states on Saturday marked the first coordinated backlash against AI data center expansion, organized by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by former Tea Party…
Tempus AI Inc. announced on Monday its intent to acquire Personalis Inc. for approximately $1.5 billion, a deal aimed at integrating Personalis' cancer testing capabilities into Tempus' AI-enabled pre…
Hut 8 Corp. signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease to fully commercialize its Beacon Point campus in Texas, bringing its total base-term contract value to $26.6 billion. The company, once dismissed as a…
Google is developing a custom chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' that hardwires the architecture of its Gemini AI model directly into silicon, aiming for 6 to 10 times greater efficiency than its latest TPUs,…
Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Monday (Jul 20) as chip stocks recovered from last week's pullback and investors awaited earnings from major technology companies that have driven the AI ra…
Public opinion is turning against AI, with communities protesting data centers and most Americans believing AI is moving too fast, according to Pew Research. Journalist Jasmine Sun argues the backlash…
Samsung Electronics America is laying off about 839 employees in the U.S., with 739 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and roughly 100 in Plano, Texas, according to a Reuters report. The cuts target sal…
Meta is scaling back its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data after staff uproar, according to an internal memo from vice president Stephane Kas…
Opponents of data center expansion plan protests in at least 125 U.S. locations on Saturday, the first coordinated national action by grassroots group HumansFirst, co-founded by former Tea Party leade…