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Data center infrastructure in the United States, in a 2025 photograph released by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

AI and the midterms

Voters went against data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, and the AI industry is already rewriting its offer

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, in an archive photograph from the Carol M. Highsmith collection at the Library of Congress.

The Dow jumps 1,569 points after the Democratic sweep, its best post-midterm session in 44 years

The welcome sign at the main building of the Googleplex, Google's headquarters at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California, photographed in 2006.

Google will switch off Search for K-12 students at schools that decline its AI tools

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

The United States Capitol at sunrise, in a 2023 photograph released by the U.S. House of Representatives. Every House seat is on the ballot on November 3.

Corporations have put a record $737 million into the 2026 midterms, 60% more than they spent on the 2024 presidential race

Dartmouth Hall, on the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire, photographed in 2007.

Academic integrity

Dartmouth's provost resigns after a faculty review finds he used AI to "meaningfully alter" his writing without disclosing it

California Governor Gavin Newsom in his official portrait, released in March 2026.

Anthropic asks California to let courts suspend risky AI models, going further than OpenAI

The Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York, in 2021. Anthropic has asked to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Anthropic files to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with first-half revenue of $16.3 billion

The Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., with the Washington Monument behind it, in 2015.

Capital controls

Treasury would ban some US investments in Chinese AI and chips, and require notice on anything above $50,000

PHP source code displayed on a screen, in a 2015 photograph.

AI tools uncover two 14-year-old PHP flaws that expose the servers behind 70% of the web

A production Cybertruck in the parking lot of Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, in 2023.

Tesla's operating income falls 56% to $718 million as research spending jumps 69%

The entrance sign at Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California, in 2022.

Meta's revenue rises 26% to $64.6 billion, and a $9.89 billion legal charge halves its operating margin

Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, near Austin, photographed in June 2022. Musk named the Terafab chip project in Austin as one of the areas where the two companies' work overlaps.

Tesla and SpaceX form special committees to study a merger, and Musk says treating it as certain "would be overstating it"

The Federal Aviation Administration's headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Air traffic control

The FAA is negotiating an ownership stake in the startup whose AI now advises its air traffic controllers

The Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, New York, in May 2026.

The Nasdaq closes its worst week since June as investors start pricing the debt behind AI

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when the photo was taken in June 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Eight states sue OpenAI and ask courts to bar it from building self-improving models

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when this photo was taken in June 2025.

National security

An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding an encrypted audio recorder in the company's executive conference room

A low-cost LED smart television of the kind the report describes as a potential host, photographed in Pakistan in 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 TV boxes that cost $55 each, and says self-replicating models are months away

The Philadelphia Police Administration Building at 700 Race Street, the brutalist structure known as the Roundhouse, photographed in 2013.

Artificial intelligence

An Anthropic model filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police, and it sat unnoticed for two months

Governor Gavin Newsom at a 2025 press conference on California's artificial intelligence workforce agreements with technology companies.

Artificial intelligence

California bans the "robo boss": an algorithm alone may no longer fire a worker