Trump pollster gives GOP a data center survival guide
President Trump's longtime pollster is offering Republican candidates a detailed playbook for neutralizing Democratic attacks over AI data centers
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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‘Who’s the child passenger?’: The kids’ privacy problem that AI’s exposing
Kalie Robins, a Utah mom who posts videos about her family’s travels, uploaded a clip of herself singing in the car, her daughter in the background, when she saw a prompt underneath the post asking: “Who’s the child passenger?”
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Introducing the DeepMind Institute
The DeepMind Institute seeks to provide a forum for Google, DeepMind, and outside researchers to tackle the biggest questions around artificial general intelligence's impacts on society
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While Illinois lags on closing its digital divide, its citizens pick Starlink
Illinois saw double-digit percentage gains in Starlink performance
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Two Views of the Same Transformation: AI Adoption, Invisible Work, and the Human Side of Organizational Change
Across both cohorts, speed and productivity have become de facto organizational values
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An aging Congress attempts to regulate AI without using it
Members of Congress and governors are under increasing pressure to regulate AI, but many express little understanding
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What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year
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U.S. Broadband Industry Investment Reaches $92.6 Billion as Fiber-Fueled Networks Connect the Innovation Economy
Year-over-year increase of 3.4% extends the strongest sustained era of network investment on record
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This obscure philosophy has become Trump's new AI bogeyman
Effective altruism urges the use of data to determine how time and money can do the most good for humanity
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Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Combat A.I. Inequality
The donation will be invested in A.I. projects to bridge social inequalities.
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