A New Jersey Town’s Data-Center Ban Signals a Growing Backlash
In a small city in southern New Jersey, the AI boom hit a brick wall. On May 19, Millville’s Board of Commissioners voted to prohibit data centers in every zoning…
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Forces the PC Industry to Answer
The cheapest Mac ever made went on sale in March, and the PC industry has been scrambling ever since. Apple’s MacBook Neo, unveiled March 4 in New York, starts at…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
Pope Leo’s First Encyclical Takes Aim at AI’s ‘Technological Messianism’
VATICAN CITY — The word Pope Leo XIV chose was “disarm.” Presenting “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, in the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 25, the pope told an audience…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
Anthropic’s $65 Billion Raise Pushes It Past OpenAI in AI’s Valuation Race
The chipmakers who supply the memory inside artificial-intelligence data centers rarely write checks to software startups. This week, three of the world’s largest memory makers made an exception. Micron Technology,…
Dell’s AI Server Surge Lifts Shares Nearly 40%
Michael Dell spent the 1990s convincing corporate buyers that cheap, standardized servers could replace mainframes. The sequel to that story played out after the closing bell Thursday, when Dell Technologies…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
Nvidia Deepens Taiwan Bet With $150 Billion Annual Pledge
The celebration in Taipei had the feel of a homecoming. Roughly 1,000 Nvidia employees gathered Wednesday at an event marking the launch of the company’s planned Taiwan headquarters, joined by…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
