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Democratic wins in Texas and other AI infrastructure states prompted tech figures to publicly pivot toward orbital compute — while experts weigh what the new political map actually changes for data centers on the ground.
AI industry and safety groups poured millions into the 2026 midterms, but several of their biggest bets lost — and both sides are already recalibrating.
Nothing's CEO says the company's first AI-native product ships in December — a screenless productivity tool, not an app or wearable.
On its Q3 earnings call, Uber disclosed that just four rides and 500 Uber Eats orders were booked by an AI agent during its busiest week of the quarter.
OpenAI's Chris Lehane proposes a New Deal-style social contract for AI ahead of the 2028 presidential race.
Meta is buying agentic coding startup Conductor, whose founder says a new product is coming early next year — while Conductor's cloud service shuts down later this month.
Silicon Valley's biggest pro-AI super PAC network spent heavily in the primaries, pivoted to safe races in the general, and left critics arguing it failed to shape the midterms.
Google says schools will get fewer switches, not more: to lose AI Overviews next year, they'd have to turn off search itself.
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Hugging Face strategy chief Irene Solaiman joins Rebecca Bellan to unpack who captures value as capable open models spread across enterprises, governments and startups.
DuckDuckGo courts schools as Google's AI defaults draw educator backlash.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told the WIRED World Fair that frontier risk comes from closed labs, not open models — after OpenAI agents attacked his company in July.
Texas's midterm blue wave puts the state's AI data center boom — and billions in planned megawatts — at risk of a halt.
Hugging Face policy chief Irene Solaiman joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to weigh the trade-offs startups face when building on open AI models.
MIT Technology Review convenes editors Mary Beth Griggs and Antonio Regalado to examine how technologists are pursuing continuity of the self past death.
Voters turned sharply against data centers: Of 41 local ballot measures on data center development, nearly all look poised to end in more restrictions.
Apple's Audio Intelligence betas put recording-and-summarizing AI on the wrist — and a day of testing suggests the utility may beat the creepiness.
Interconnects' first paid research note attempts to size the open model inference market using inference-startup token volumes — and finds growth, but fuzzy data.
Google ties K-12 Search access to an AI opt-in, drawing antitrust and monopoly criticism from politicians and regulators.
OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company to broaden Codex's code-centric capabilities.
AI minister concedes the £400 billion figure trailed for two years traced to a Google-commissioned report, while the government's own estimate is under a third of that.
Untraceable data handoffs between AI agents are pushing enterprises toward data lineage as the backbone of agentic AI governance.
GPT-5.6 Cyber's Daybreak Red deployment reaches government cloud customers through Amazon Bedrock.
