
Candidates Turn Data Center and AI Safety Worries Into a New Campaign Pledge
The AI Pact is drawing candidates into a new debate over data centers, AI safety and energy use as midterm politics heat up.
Updates on OpenAI’s advancements, models like GPT, and industry influence.

The AI Pact is drawing candidates into a new debate over data centers, AI safety and energy use as midterm politics heat up.

Ox Alpha has been revealed as a Z.ai model, intensifying pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic as open-weight AI competition heats up.

QueryStory launches with a $6 million seed round and a plan to make enterprise AI answers transparent, auditable and trustworthy.

OpenAI says its AI chip Jalapeño is faster and more efficient than Nvidia’s latest superchips, with rollout planned for 2026 and 2027.

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip outperforms Nvidia Blackwell in inference benchmarks and could begin limited deployment in late 2026.

Keenable raised $26 million to build AI search infrastructure for agents, betting the web needs a new retrieval layer.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Work is ready for mainstream office use, with 20 million users, stronger safety and a push for cheaper AI.

AI job applications are flooding recruiters with spam, fake candidates and automated résumés, pushing employers to add friction back.

Spirit Airlines’ AI data sale to Google faces a union objection over employee privacy, bankruptcy rules, and training data rights.

Alabama’s OpenAI subpoena probes an alleged AI agent hack and whether safety failures violated consumer protection laws.