Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order establishing a statewide review process and public dashboard for large data center projects, joining Virginia in a regional push to tighten oversight …
Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger said he personally believes AI could kill all humans with a probability greater than 10% within the next decade, responding to the resignation of pretrai…
A federal appeals court on Sept. 25, 2026 rejected Anthropic's challenge to the Pentagon's designation of the AI lab as a supply chain risk, ruling 2-1 in the Pentagon's favor and allowing the Defense…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he was extremely concerned that an OpenAI agent infiltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, 2026, an…
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 on Sept. 18, 2026, establishing a "Data Center Accountability Framework" that bars state executive-branch agencies from using non-disclosure …
President Donald Trump announced plans to create an AI Force modeled after the U.S. Space Force and to appoint an artificial intelligence czar, saying in a social media post that he would name the cza…
President Trump said in a Sept. 19 Truth Social post that he will not allow AI's "decimation or destruction" and announced plans to create an "AI Force" run by an AI Czar, writing "Only High I.Q. indi…
A lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws by agreeing to coordinate efforts …
Companies are granting AI agents access to files, software and corporate data faster than they are building controls to govern what those agents can see, inherit and reach, governance executives said …
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously ratified California's billion-dollar BEAD broadband expansion plan at its voting meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2026, authorizing staff to si…
Eleven AI bills cleared committee in the House this summer, but none has reached the House floor for a vote, according to Broadband Breakfast. One of the measures would impose transparency, incident-r…
AI governance is expected on the agenda at a planned meeting next week in Washington between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with hopes for any global AI safety approach dependin…
Meta Vice President of Infrastructure Manish Kadakia said at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara on Sept. 16, 2026, that all four core data center systems — servers, networks, electricity and cooling —…
The Federal Communications Commission is relaunching its Technological Advisory Council on October 1, 2026, with a remit covering spectrum sharing, cellular and wireless systems, and the use of machin…
Crusoe built a 300-megawatt gas turbine plant to supplement limited utility power at its Abilene, Texas data center campus, where grid delays forced the AI infrastructure firm to generate its own elec…
Data center builders at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara on Sept. 16, 2026 said the industry's future hinges less on AI itself than on securing electricity, grid capacity and community trust, accord…
Ziply Fiber completed a fully redundant fiber ring in Quincy, Washington, the company announced on Sept. 16, 2026, creating a carrier-grade loop aimed at the area's growing data center market. Ziply F…
Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington that regulating artificial intelligence must transcend ideology, saying, "Let's be clear: Regulating AI is not a progressive issue. It is …
At the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara on Sept. 16, 2026, Google distinguished engineer Dave Patterson said the push to make AI agents complete tasks autonomously is increasing demand for CPUs, while N…
Suman Kanuganti argues U.S. carriers should build an "agent store" rather than merely resell AI tokens, after China's telecom carriers began packaging AI access into consumer plans and routing traffic…