Kevin Collier / NBC News: Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject — Cybersecurity experts told NBC…
Allan Smith / NBC News: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials — Shapiro, a potential…
Steve Kopack / NBC News: Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, vs. a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10+ clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API — The company's interim CEO said…
NBC News: US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect — The ruling clears the way for the…
David Ingram / NBC News: OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach — A lawyer for Apple…
Samantha Elkins / NBC News: Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked — Cloudflare gave AI crawlers…
Ben Kamisar / NBC News: Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary, which drew millions in AI PAC spending — NBC News projects that…
NBC News: A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place its users into age-based accounts starting in June, amid controversy over user privacy — “Not everyone is going to be happy…
Allan Smith / NBC News: Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states — The authors found that…
Natasha Korecki / NBC News: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework — Pritzker, who is widely…
NBC News: Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance — Florida's seeks to hold Sam Altman…
Jared Perlo / NBC News: Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure, SB 315, goes…