October 30, 2026 4:00 PM / Staff Report New York’s proposed environmental review of data centers will examine how the facilities affect electric customers and host communities, including water supplies, air quality, noise and public health. The Public Service Commission issued a draft scope…
New York ranks second in the nation for quantum technology businesses, research groups and patents, according to a new state-commissioned study that outlines opportunities to expand the emerging industry. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the findings, which identified 134 operating entities, 219 research…
The governor of New York state signed a new law Wednesday preventing minors from using AI chatbots that act as companions, in one of the broadest moves yet for restricting consumer-facing models. The law requires chatbot operators, such as OpenAI's…
A small California town was hit with a dazzling nighttime glare as a tech startup tested its futuristic plan to beam sunlight onto Earth after dark — using powerful spotlights in the mountains instead of mirrors in space. The Oct. 10 demonstration…
A UC Berkeley professor has stopped grading students’ homework for correctness after noticing artificial intelligence tools were helping them rack up top marks. Richard Borcherds, a renowned mathematician, said he no longer sees the value in paying graders to evaluate…
A litigator with an early career background in engineering, corporate counseling attorney Kristie Blase has always been drawn to analyzing systems. Her career trajectory went from running an environmental energy engineering center to counseling corporations and financial entities on business…
The Manhattan Dem grilled a SpaceX artificial intelligence policy leader about the company’s claim that it had installed protections to bar its Grok conversational AI model from generalized sexualized images of users. “Grok has strict controls in place to prevent…
By JOSEPH FREDERICK and JOSH KELETY This is the first documented instance of barn owls nesting in Manhattan in modern history, according to one expert, and the owls have attracted nightly crowds of people in the street eager to get…
October 14, 2026 2:46 AM / Staff Report New York is opening a competition for organizations that would run the first two accelerators in a more than $37 million clean-energy commercialization initiative. The current application is for program operators, not for individual startups seeking accelerator…
If you have a teenager, AI is part of their world. Let’s be real: AI is so ingrained in their lives that we parents are living in an archaic, yesterday-era world; even if you think you are up to date,…
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