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Google announced Wednesday it will invest $10 million in water infrastructure projects across Texas communities where the tech giant plans to construct data centers, marking the company’s first attempt to quell backlash against massive data centers with insatiable needs for power and water.

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, is approaching trillionaire status as SpaceX prepares for its IPO next week.

The FCC on Wednesday launched a proceeding that seeks to review the agency’s nearly $3 billion E-Rate program to ensure that E-Rate-funded networks are being used to protect America’s children.

AI may well deliver the productivity boom its champions expect. The risk is that the economy has already begun borrowing against that future before the returns have been earned.

Breitbart News International Editor Frances Martel said on Sunday during the Breitbart Founders’ Roundtable that Chinese communists cannot understand how a human soul is more valuable than AI — and that’s to the advantage of the United States.

The CEO of global IT services firm Cognizant is pushing back against widespread predictions that AI will eliminate entry-level positions, announcing plans to hire over 20,000 college graduates in 2026. He also criticized the trend of focusing on AI usage, which he calls a vanity metric.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly breaking with Wall Street convention by establishing a fixed IPO price of $135 per share before its investor roadshow, aiming to raise a record $75 billion on a valuation of $1.75 trillion. Financial services firm Morningstar believes Musk’s company is only worth about half that amount.

New factory orders data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau show the enormous scale of America’s AI infrastructure buildout, with manufacturing orders for computers, networking equipment, power generation, and cooling systems all surging at double-digit rates compared to a year ago.

The forecast that artificial intelligence will lead to mass unemployment took another hit this week as demand for workers rose sharply in April data.

Wynton Hall, whose New York Times bestselling book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI has established him as a leading expert on AI in the conservative movement, closed Breitbart’s latest Founders’ Roundtable with a charge to the audience: Stop assuming AI is over your head, and start fighting for it. Hall laid out five steps he believes every conservative needs take right now.

Breitbart News International Editor Frances Martel said on Sunday during the Breitbart Founders’ Roundtable that if China wins the AI race, they will export repressive technology worldwide.

Disney employees are reportedly disturbed by a senior executive’s relationship with an AI chatbot that he refers to as his “son” and that has a child-like avatar resembling a young boy.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that asks AI companies to submit to a voluntary government review 30 days before releasing AI models to the public.

Hackers have successfully compromised numerous prominent Instagram accounts including the Barack Obama White House profile by simply asking Meta’s AI support chatbot to change the email addresses associated with target profiles, security researchers report.

AI powerhouse Anthropic announced on Monday that it has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC, establishing the framework for what could become a historic IPO potentially valuing the company at more than $1 trillion.

“PragerU has been hit again by Big Tech, and we are about to expose who was behind this egregious and unfair de-platforming,” according to PragerU.

Harvard graduates cheered after comedian Ronny Chieng proclaimed “fuck AI” during a pre-commencement event on Wednesday. “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber,” the “Daily Show” host declared.

If you are looking at the headline data in the government’s economic report, it is easy to miss the artificial intelligence investment boom.

Carnival Corporation said the personal information of nearly six million customers was leaked due to a data breach in April.

Malaysia began enforcing its social media ban for children on Monday, requiring all social media platforms with 8 million or more users to implement age-verification systems that will prevent people under 16 from creating accounts.

A professor at Grambling State University in Louisiana says he will fail any student caught using AI. “I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you,” he said.

An AI-powered medication monitoring system failed to detect months of fentanyl theft by a nurse at Tennessee’s largest hospital in Chattanooga, according to state nursing board records that raise questions about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems used in hundreds of American hospitals.

Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend. It wasn’t for the big budget “Star Wars” movie, “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which fell sharply in its second weekend.

Bill Gates who transformed himself from a software tycoon into a leftist icon of environmentalism and health philanthropy, is seeing his meticulously crafted reputation crumble as new details emerge about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Tech giant Google is pursuing government authorization to deploy up to 32 million sterile mosquitoes across California and Florida through its specialized “Debug” program designed to combat disease-carrying insects.

Pop star Rihanna teamed up with Elon Musk’s estranged transgender child Xavier Alexander Musk — who now goes by the name Vivian Jenna Wilson — for her lingerie brand’s salacious Pride campaign.

Hard-left Turkish-American influencers Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker have been banned from entering the United Kingdom.

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a growing class of attacks that exploit AI chatbots through sophisticated conversational manipulation rather than traditional technical hacking methods.

Meta, the company that used to be called Facebook, has allowed at least one department to be run by Chinese migrants, according to a former employee who is now blowing the whistle on the company’s toxic, anti-professionalism culture.

Emily Blunt rejected using artificial intelligence (AI) when filming a pivotal scene in Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming sci-fi film Disclosure Day, saying she is terrified of the creative medium.

An AI firm has reportedly struck a deal to license the late Marvel Comics mogul Stan Lee’s voice and likeness.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has reportedly moved his family to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in order to get away from high taxes in the United States — and to flee what he suspects will be a nuclear war and runaway AI.