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AI data centers are projected to consume nearly 12% of all U.S. electricity by 2030, nearly six times the pre-AI boom share in 2018, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, but the U.S. electric grid may not be read…
Ollie, a San Diego-based personal AI assistant for families, has achieved SOC 2 compliance to differentiate itself in the crowded AI assistant market by prioritizing user privacy, co-founder and CEO Bill Lennon told Tech…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until federal s…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have called for a ban on artificial superintelligence, proposing legislation that would criminalize AI systems matching or exceeding human cognition with sentences of …
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a bill that would permanently ban the development and deployment of artificial su…
State lawmakers have introduced at least 375 data center-related bills through July 15, more than the total from the previous three years combined, as communities push back over electricity costs, water use, and noise, a…
The Document Foundation, the not-for-profit behind LibreOffice, said it will not add AI features to the default configuration of LibreOffice 26.8 because no current integration meets its principles, which include user-co…
The Indian government is considering a social media code of conduct for its officers and employees to prevent them from posting videos or opinions on undesirable subjects, according to official sources. The move follows …
Pentagon official Emil Michael said on Thursday that Anthropic remains a designated 'supply chain risk' for the Department of Defense and the Defense Industrial Base, contradicting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sta…
On September 2, 2026, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel told CNBC there is 'a lot more pushback' on data center construction across the U.S., while White House AI adviser David Sacks amplified a script coaching candidates…
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed for a $3 billion Hong Kong IPO at a $50 billion valuation, a move that reflects Beijing's strategy to keep frontier AI capital under domestic control by requiring the company to unwin…
Singapore and Thailand agreed at their Sept. 2 Leaders' Retreat in Bangkok to renew their digital-economy pact and deepen AI cooperation across governance, adoption, talent, and research, with Prime Ministers Lawrence Wo…
The Trump administration proposed a rule on Thursday that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on race, affecting up to 18,000 institutions. …
OpenAI and Anthropic have signed on to Canada's new data centre framework, agreeing to minimize water use and avoid shifting electricity costs to consumers, as public opinion turns against the buildout. The framework was…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would outlaw AI systems that surpass human intelligence or can subvert shutdown commands, with penalties com…
The Treasury Department's Aug. 19 bond market intervention plan, which includes at least doubling buybacks of long-term bonds, highlights concerns that financial markets may struggle to digest bloated U.S. debt alongside…
Qazaq AI Research University (QAIRU) in Kazakhstan has opened its first academic year with 500 students—400 bachelor's and 100 master's—who will access the Alem Cloud supercomputer's 20 GPUs. Vice Minister of Science and…
The U.S. Department of Justice told a court that AI training constitutes fair use, while reportedly negotiating a stake in OpenAI, raising conflict-of-interest concerns. The DOJ's position, revealed in a legal filing, al…
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring Hugging Face, the platform used by over 18 million developers and 200,000 companies, which would give Nvidia control over the primary hub for open-source AI model weights and datasets. The …
Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) said on Wednesday that China 'has it right' on using artificial intelligence in classrooms, as long as AI does not replace learning core concepts. His comments came during an interview on New…