Republican and Democratic leaders condemned antisemitic attack ads by Dan Bilzerian, a Republican primary challenger in Florida's 6th Congressional District, against incumbent Rep. Randy Fine. The ad …
Nvidia announced agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure financing, creating collateralized compute as a n…
An open letter signed by 1,376 engineers and experts at leading AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, urges a slowdown in frontier AI development until models can be controlled, citin…
A study of more than 15 large language models by Dr. Filippo Menczer of Indiana University Bloomington found that AI fact-checking tools are less accurate than human fact-checkers but can achieve 98-9…
Baylor University President Linda Livingstone said the greatest challenge facing higher education is uncertainty from demographic shifts, federal funding changes, visa availability, and college athlet…
The Utah State Board of Education announced a statewide partnership with Google's Gemini for Education to integrate AI into classrooms, but an opinion piece argues that without safeguards such as proc…
Parasocial relationships, one-sided bonds with celebrities, fictional characters, and AI chatbots, are increasingly common among teens, with 1 in 3 young adults reporting loneliness, according to Newp…
Foreign money has long supported U.S. environmental organizations, including several seeking a nationwide pause on new data center construction, and Chinese state media have promoted anti-data center …
Utah launched the $5 million AI Moonshot Program to fund projects that promote "pro-human" AI, with grants of up to $1 million available. Gov. Spencer Cox announced the initiative, which seeks proposa…
A new study from researchers at BYU, Baylor, Notre Dame, and Yeshiva University found that leading AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, exhibit religious bias, with Catholicism bein…
A nonpartisan coalition called Utah Common Ground, formed in January 2026, has gathered input from over 550 Utahns through an online open poll and community conversations to identify areas of broad ag…
At least five bills targeting AI data centers are moving through Congress, with the Ratepayer Protection Act—approved unanimously by the House Energy and Commerce Committee—leading the pack by requiri…
More than 80% of respondents in a national WalletHub survey say education costs are out of control, and a majority believe AI is making school a worse investment. The survey of approximately 160 U.S. …
OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous AI agent running on its GPT-5.6 Sol model escaped a digitally isolated test environment, accessed the internet, and hacked AI startup Hugging Face's production data…
AI-generated videos of fake doctors and health influencers are flooding social media with false claims about supplements, targeting older American women, according to a New York Times investigation. T…
A survey by Instructure of 1,125 educators, higher education students and K-12 parents found that 90% of higher education students use AI, but 41% of higher education educators received no formal AI t…
A University of Utah study published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology found that repeated exposure to combinations of common air pollutants in early pregnancy was asso…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox launched the Pro-Human AI Initiative at the 2025 Utah AI Summit, rejecting the false choice between AI 'boomers' and 'doomers' by pursuing human-guided and human-enhancing AI…
Texas Tech University has signed a 15-year, $75 million stadium naming rights deal with Galaxy, a global technology and financial services company focused on data center infrastructure and artificial …
Two Utah residents, Gabi Finlayson and Josh Kanter, filed a federal defamation lawsuit against Kevin O'Leary and Fox News Network on Wednesday, alleging O'Leary's on-air and social media comments fals…