Pro-industry AI PACs spent tens of millions of dollars in Tuesday's midterm elections, with mixed results. Voters also rejected data center construction measures and industry-backed candidates across multiple states.
More than 12,000 healthcare executives, investors, clinicians, and founders head to Las Vegas this month for HLTH USA 2026. Organizers have billed the show as the arrival of intelligent healthcare, and the companies exhibiting and speaking offer an early look at what that means in practice.
A former Samsung engineer received a five-year prison sentence for leaking DRAM technology to China's CXMT, highlighting the intensifying battle over semiconductor talent and trade secrets as Chinese chipmakers close the gap with established rivals.
Figma reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and raised its full-year revenue outlook, but shares dropped 7% after the company said it is intentionally slowing near-term revenue growth to accelerate AI adoption among customers.
Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan purchased 150,000 shares at $64.73 each on Monday, a filing showed, as the chipmaker's stock slid amid a broader post-midterm selloff in AI infrastructure names.
Google drew bipartisan criticism after announcing that K-12 schools using its software suite would lose access to Search unless they opted in to AI tools like Gemini, with Senator Bernie Sanders calling the policy "extortion" and former FTC Chair Lina Khan citing antitrust concerns.
Shares of Trump Media, Tesla, SpaceX, and neocloud companies fell sharply in premarket trading Wednesday after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, raising concerns about regulatory headwinds for data center expansion and AI infrastructure.
More than 12,000 healthcare executives, investors, clinicians, and founders head to Las Vegas this month for HLTH USA 2026. Organizers have billed the show as the arrival of intelligent healthcare, and the companies exhibiting and speaking offer an early look at what that means in practice.
Figma reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and raised its full-year revenue outlook, but shares dropped 7% after the company said it is intentionally slowing near-term revenue growth to accelerate AI adoption among customers.
Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan purchased 150,000 shares at $64.73 each on Monday, a filing showed, as the chipmaker's stock slid amid a broader post-midterm selloff in AI infrastructure names.
A former Samsung engineer received a five-year prison sentence for leaking DRAM technology to China's CXMT, highlighting the intensifying battle over semiconductor talent and trade secrets as Chinese chipmakers close the gap with established rivals.
Google drew bipartisan criticism after announcing that K-12 schools using its software suite would lose access to Search unless they opted in to AI tools like Gemini, with Senator Bernie Sanders calling the policy "extortion" and former FTC Chair Lina Khan citing antitrust concerns.
Apple flagged AI agents behaving in "unintended or unpredictable ways" as a formal business risk in its annual filing, while CrowdStrike launched a kill switch designed to stop rogue internal agents — signaling a broader industry reckoning with autonomous AI governance.
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