Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal
Days after Micron broke ground on a $100 billion chip factory in New York state, a coalition of environmentalists, labor unions, and civil rights groups are urging the...
Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms
Silicon Valley is already pouring tens of millions of dollars into the midterm elections taking place across the US in 2026, as the tech industry’s war over AI...
Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All
When DeepSeek burst onto the global stage in January 2025, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. But the large language model was just one of the thousands...
Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese
But language models can only do so much, and what robots need most urgently is a new kind of model that understands the physical world the way an...
China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own
Jade Gu met her boyfriend online. Gu, who’s 26 and studies art theory in Beijing, was playing on her phone when she saw Charlie. She was deep in...
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider the possibility remote,...
