Thursday, January 29, 2026

Tag: AI

The War intervention: AI, data centers, and the environment 

This increasingly inextricable partnership between AI and the war economy is throwing us into a fast track of climate and environmental chaos that threatens us all.

Trump family businesses rake in $4 billion after his re-election with...

With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurrency and more, the Trumps are “increasingly integrating their business empire” into the wider U.S. economy.

Instacart ends use of AI-powered pricing experiment on consumers

Instacart's Eversight pricing tool allowed retails on its platform to experiment with pricing using AI, which could cost the average household up to $1,200 every year in additional spending.

States introduce AI bills affecting health care

More than 250 AI bills in health care were introduced in 47 states since October.

Microsoft faces reckoning for assisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza

A new legal and shareholder campaign warns that Microsoft’s military contracts expose the company and its executives to international and domestic liability.

Technology empires and the race to cement dominance

American and Chinese influence increasingly relies on technology services, and both powers are attempting to solidify their dominance even as other countries catch up.

Trump’s $625 million coal bailout draws fire from climate and health...

Administration announces $625 million for coal plant life-extensions while Interior opens 13.1 million acres for leasing and EPA scraps pollution limits; advocates warn the public will “pay the price” through higher bills, dirtier air and stalled clean energy.

Will artificial intelligence (AI) only serve billionaire dominance—or end up educating,...

Potential AI benefits for the people won’t come easy and there’s never a free lunch for truly mind-boggling new gadgetry with enormous potential.

California Assembly introduces law to advance safety of artificial intelligence and...

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents "substantial risks" and experts said California is setting the path to manage those risks.

AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to...

Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”

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Senator Cory Booker is wrong—ICE doesn’t need ‘better training,’ ICE needs to be abolished

That being said, it’s the wholesale cowardice of the democratic party that is the cause of this disease—fascism. 

The United States of consumption

Our trash and our lives, here and abroad.

America at a crossroads. What if MAGA Trump bloodlust sets the stage for greater...

Losing the House (and Senate) will induce a 2020 replay but this time desperate Chicken Little will implode when repeating the same pathetic, “rigged” trickery again.

Massive Kaiser strike exposes deepening conflict over staffing, care, and corporate priorities

More than 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers walk off the job amid claims of unsafe conditions and stalled negotiations.

Breaking things: A proposal of resistance

A proposal of resistance seeking people to think about what can be done, and what is required from local governments to response to the viciousness and brutality of ICE and other federal agents occupying our cities and towns.