AI data-centre developers are eyeing tribal land for its space, water, and power, splitting Native communities between economic opportunity and "data colonialism" fears.

For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature ...

Mark Zuckerberg confirms Meta is exploring selling AI compute, a move that would take on AWS and Azure and threaten neoclouds like CoreWeave.

AI super PACs backed by OpenAI and a16z are flooding the 2026 midterms to block state AI rules and punish lawmakers who push them.

Anthropic appointed former Fed chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a heavyweight for a governance structure critics still question.

The European Parliament advanced a revived CSAM-scanning bill via a rare procedure, with an encryption carve-out that satisfied neither side.

Nikesh Arora says AI token costs need to drop as much as 90% for mass enterprise adoption, calling OpenAI's 54% efficiency gain just "a good start." ...

A VTS report finds AI firms now take 46% of US tech office demand, up 85% in a year, with one SF district holding a quarter of it.

Omdia says the PC market fell 3.6% in Q2 2026 and sub-$400 phone shipments will drop 22%, as AI's hunger for memory chips pushes device prices up.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is public after a Trump administration review, the first US frontier model cleared for release through a government access process.

Beijing's Booster Robotics powered every winning team at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea. The sport's goal: beat the human World Cup champions by 2050.

A global survey finds half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work, even as AI skills start to outrank experience and a degree in hiring.