North Carolina joins Virginia in imposing a data center electricity tax on AI facilities, reflecting a broader backlash against subsidized AI infrastructure power costs.
Anthropic signed a $19B, 20-year TeraWulf Anthropic data center lease at a Kentucky campus, validating the bitcoin miner's pivot to AI infrastructure landlord.
Microsoft MAI models are replacing OpenAI and Anthropic in Excel and Outlook Copilot. The cost-driven shift raises quality concerns for enterprise subscribers paying the same price.
Apple OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit reveals coordinated theft of hardware designs as both companies race to build AI-powered devices. Strategic analysis inside.
The Microsoft Chevron power deal supplies 20-year behind-the-meter electricity to an AI data center, bypassing grid limits for large-scale compute.
Three EU regulatory actions in one week create urgency for enterprise AI teams as the AI Act compliance deadline of August 2 approaches with fines and pre-market rules.
OpenAI national security principles prohibit autonomous weapons and mass surveillance while deepening Pentagon and allied cyber defense partnerships.
Accenture Federal Services wins $821M task order for Pentagon War Data Platform integration, beating four bidders to serve as core integration partner for the CDAO-managed program.
Meta plans third-quarter production of its custom Iris AI chip, doubling compute to 14 GW by 2027 as the Meta Iris AI chip reduces reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
The AI data center backlash blocked $130 billion in projects during Q1 2026, forcing Amazon, Google, and Meta to rethink infrastructure strategy amid surging community opposition.
Perplexity adopts Nvidia Vera CPU for AI agent workloads, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in a strategic shift challenging Intel and AMD's server dominance.
OpenAI is sunsetting the ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch, pivoting to ChatGPT Work and its desktop app for enterprise agents.
Meta launches the Muse Spark 1.1 API at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic. The paid API is a strategic reversal from open-source Llama.
Senator Ed Markey's AI accountability agenda targets data center construction, hiring algorithms, child safety, and healthcare AI with nearly a dozen new bills.
AI business funding hit $392B in 2026 as enterprise AI agents scaled up and Chinese models captured 46% of US tokens on OpenRouter.
