Governor Hochul signed the nation's first statewide freeze on new hyperscale data centers — 50 megawatts and up, for as long as a year — citing a grid nearing its limits and residential electric rates up nearly 68% since 2019. A $10 billion pipeline pauses, a 12-gigawatt queue waits, and the bill still on her desk goes further.
A first-of-its-kind deal gives every California state agency — plus any city or county that opts in — Claude at half price with free training. The DMV and the nation's largest Medicaid agency were already using it.
The export controls came off June 30 and Fable 5 returned July 1 — with a stricter classifier and a standing government role in future Anthropic releases.
AOC wants to break up Apple over its $200 price hikes — yet she names the real cause herself: the AI memory crunch. Antitrust doesn't fix a supply shortage, and Apple is a company being squeezed by it.
Rhode Island's new AI scribe law is billed as an 'opt-out' mandate, but the statute requires only that providers notify patients and review the AI's notes for accuracy — no opt-out, consent, or penalty in the text.
OpenAI limited its new GPT-5.6 models to a small group of partners the government signed off on — the second top lab in two weeks to gate its best model behind a federal review.
Trump signed an order asking AI companies to voluntarily hand the government a 30-day look at their most powerful models before release. It explicitly bars any mandatory licensing — making the whole thing a request, not a rule.
Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, casts AI as this era's industrial revolution — a tool to be governed, humanized, and 'disarmed,' not feared or worshipped.
OCR's May 2026 target for finalizing the HIPAA Security Rule update is on track to slip — but the agency is enforcing the existing rule aggressively. Here's where the proposed rule stands, what OCR is actually doing today, and what healthcare organizations need to have in place either way.
Connecticut's AI Responsibility and Transparency Act is on the governor's desk. The lead sponsor represents my district. Here's what's in it, who carries the burden, and where it collides with the federal preemption push.