New Jersey Legislature Passes Bill to Eliminate $250 Million AI Data-Center Tax Credits
New Jersey lawmakers cut a $250 million AI data‑center subsidy in half on June 30, when the Senate approved the End Data‑Center Tax Credits Act (S4390) by a 74‑4 vote and sent the meas...
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Anthropic Secures 20-Year Lease for 400-MW AI Data Center in Kentucky
Anthropic, the San Francisco‑based artificial‑intelligence firm behind the Claude language model, has signed a 20‑year lease to operate a new data center in Hawesville, Kentucky, about...
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SIGGRAPH 2026 Highlights Neural Rendering, GPU Innovation, and Generative AI in Sponsored Keynotes
SIGGRAPH 2026, the 53rd annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, opened on July 19 in Los Angeles and will run through July 23. The event, organized by the Associat...
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Amazon and Hugging Face Launch One-Click Deep-Link to SageMaker Studio
Amazon’s latest move cuts a long‑held bottleneck in AI development: the jump from model discovery to enterprise‑grade experimentation. On July 6, 2026, the company announced a deep‑l...
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Illinois Enacts First U.S. Law Requiring AI Safety Audits for Large Models
Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, into law on July 6, 2026, in Chicago. The bill obliges developers of frontier AI models that g...
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AIs Growing Role in Healthcare: Which Jobs Are at Risk and What New Opportunities Are Emerging
AI isn’t poised to replace bedside nurses—yet. In a July 3 commentary in Forbes, medical AI specialist Jesse Pines, MD, MBA, argues that the technology is unlikely to displace many patie...
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Central Valley Launches Supercomputing Hub to Accelerate AI-Driven Agriculture
California’s Central Valley is set to become a new center of computational power, with Fresno State, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, and F3 Innovate announcing t...
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Samsung Forecasts 19-Fold Profit Surge as AI Memory Chip Demand Soars
Samsung Electronics Co. has issued a bold forecast that could reshape expectations for the chip industry. On Tuesday, the company projected that its operating profit for the second quarter o...
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Sysdig Documents First Known AI-Driven Ransomware Attack, JadePuffer
A cloud‑security firm has revealed the first confirmed instance of a ransomware operation run entirely by an artificial‑intelligence agent.Sysdig, which monitors cloud workloads for mali...
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Montefiore Hospital Plans to Replace 12 Nurses with AI Software, Union Responds
Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx announced that it will lay off 12 utilization‑review nurses and replace them with artificial‑intelligence (AI) software, a decision that has triggered a ...
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AI Workshop at Prairie View A&M Shows How Small Businesses Can Use AI to Win Contracts and Grants
In a quiet evening on the Prairie View A&M campus, entrepreneurs from Central Texas discovered that artificial intelligence could be more than a quick‑reply chatbot. The second session of ...
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SK Hynixs Nasdaq Debut Highlights AI Memory Shortage as Micron Shares Surge
On July 10, 2026, South Korean memory maker SK Hynix opened trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SKHY, giving U.S. investors direct access to the company that dominates the high‑bandwidt...
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Sen. Mark Warner Highlights Tariffs, Drought, and AIs Impact on Virginia in Rappahannock News Interview
On Saturday, Senator Mark Warner—Virginia’s incumbent Democrat running for re‑election—sat down with the Rappahannock News to outline what he calls the state’s top three priorities...
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Midjourney Seeks Disclosure of Hollywood Studios AI Use in Copyright Lawsuit
Midjourney has taken a hard line against Hollywood, filing a motion this week that asks a federal judge to force Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery to turn over internal documents ...
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iPhones 2007 Launch Linked to U.S. Birth-Rate Decline, Study Finds; Musks AI Prototype Rumor Debunked
A working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in June 2026 links Apple’s first iPhone to a measurable drop in U.S. fertility rates. The study, Is the iPhone B...
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UN Launches Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva
When the United Nations General Assembly opened its doors in Geneva on July 6, 2026, it was not to discuss trade or climate, but to steer the future of artificial intelligence.The two‑day ...
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BCE, Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC Announce AI Infrastructure Deal to Advance Canadian Sovereign AI
BCE Inc. (NYSE: BCE) announced on June 18 2026 that it has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Cohere, high‑performance computing firm Hypertec, and BUZZ High Performance C...
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OpenAI Forum to Host Virtual Session on Artists Use of Text-to-Image AI Tools
OpenAI Forum will hold a virtual discussion on Thursday, July 9, featuring Eric B. Zhou, a recent PhD graduate from Boston University. The event, titled Artists and AI: Expanding the Creativ...
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Ohio Rep. Gary Click Shares AI-Generated Video of Himself Signing Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 2026, Ohio State Representative Gary Click posted a roughly 12‑minute video on his official Facebook page that thrusts an AI‑rendered version of the legislator into a candleli...
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NIST Advances Cyber AI Profile Amid Rising AI-Driven Security Threats
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is advancing a new “Cyber AI Profile” that will expand its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to address the risks and opportunities ...
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Michael Burry Warns of AI Bubble, Highlights Semiconductor Valuation Concerns
On May 24, 2026, investor Michael Burry took to X to sharpen his long‑standing critique of the artificial‑intelligence (AI) investment surge. In a tweet that evoked the Joker from Tim Bu...
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Coherent Shares Pull Back Amid AI Infrastructure Valuation Reset, Despite Strong Revenue Growth
Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR) experienced a sharp decline in its share price last week, falling 9.6 % on a single day and 12.4 % over the past seven days. The dip follows a period of impressiv...
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Fiserv Accelerates AI Integration in Digital Banking Amid Mixed Stock Performance
Fiserv’s latest AI‑powered push is reshaping its digital banking stack, even as the stock wrestles with broader market headwinds. The company has just woven Personetics’ cognitive bank...
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