Maine Governor Vetoes Bill to Temporarily Ban Data Centers
By The Wall Street Journal Published on April 24, 2026 Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill Friday that would have made Maine the first U.S. state to temporarily ban data-center construction. The majority Democratic Maine state legislature passed a bill this month to pause large data-center projects until November of 2027. Read More
‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war
By The Guardian Published on April 12, 2026 This week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public. The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned the heads of major banks for a […]
There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace
By Futurism Published on April 11, 2026 With consumers roundly panning generative AI slop wherever it’s found, tech companies have set their sights on a more captive audience as a source of revenue: the world’s boardrooms and cubicle farms. But the office, it turns out, is also failing to provide fertile ground for its overtures. […]
AI Giants Go on Charm Offensive to Avert Public Backlash
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on April 07, 2026 Artificial-intelligence companies appear to be organizing around a simple message in the face of rising public anxiety about the negative potential effects of their world-changing technology: We come in peace. OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zeroes in on […]
These Cities and States Are Taking Aim at Data Centers
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on April 07, 2026 Maine looks poised to become the first state to freeze building of new data centers with legislation that could pass this spring, but community backlash against these properties is spreading across the country. Lawmakers in more than 10 states have proposed temporary bans on data-center […]
The New Jobs Being Created by AI
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on April 02, 2026 Artificial intelligence has sparked fears it will become a job killer. It’s also fueling a crop of new careers. AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such […]
How companies are using AI to pay workers as little as possible
By POPULAR INFORMATION Published on March 26, 2026 As corporate profits surge, American workers are taking home a record-low percentage of the proceeds from their work. In the third quarter of 2025, the “labor share” of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. decreased to 53.8%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was […]
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
By futurism Published on January 26, 2026 A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer […]
AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds
By The Guardian Published on January 26, 2026 The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% – the highest […]