A New York Times/Siena University poll of 1,503 likely voters conducted in early September found 61 percent opposed building data centers for AI, with only 14 percent strongly supportive. Opposition skewed heavily among Harris voters and non-voters, while 2024 Trump voters were nearly evenly split between support and opposition. Environmental and water-use concerns topped the list of reasons for opposition, followed by community impact and general distrust of AI.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-15
Copyright lawsuits by The New York Times, Ziff Davis and other publishers against OpenAI are moving into a new legal phase after discovery concluded, with both sides asking a federal court to rule on whether OpenAI's use of published material qualifies as fair use. Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah publicly criticized a Trump administration filing arguing licensing requirements would burden AI firms, contrasting the U.S. music industry's roughly $20 billion in annual royalties with OpenAI's projected $750 billion computing spend through 2030.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-15
Gilt Groupe, the once high-profile flash-sale e-commerce company, served as an early training ground for many employees who later launched their own startups. A number of these founders were women who credit their time at Gilt with giving them the operational and entrepreneurial skills to strike out on their own.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-15
Fast Company revealed its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards winners in the data design category, recognizing projects that use data to improve user experiences through visualizations, interfaces, or algorithms. Pentagram's 'A Data Love Letter to the Subway,' a two-minute hand-drawn animation displayed across 52 screens at Fulton Transit Center, took the top honor for transforming New York subway data into an artistic visual narrative.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
CNET published its daily hints and full solutions for the NYT Strands puzzle #924, dated September 13. The puzzle's theme, tied to secret agents and espionage, centers on the spangram UNDERCOVER along with related words like MOLE, AGENT, ASSET, PLANT, OPERATIVE and COUNTERSPY.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-12
College students are increasingly engineering workarounds to avoid AI-detection tools used by professors, according to a New York Magazine report. One NYU student built a bot with AI coding tools that completes his WebAssign calculus homework slowly, mimicking human typing speed to avoid raising suspicion from timestamp checks, and has since shared the tool with classmates.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-12
Partner Keith Rabois revealed at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event that Khosla Ventures is setting up its first-ever satellite office, located on 14th Street in New York, with an expected fall opening. The firm currently has no presence even in San Francisco, making this a significant shift for the Menlo Park-based investor.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-11
The Honey Deuce, a vodka-and-lemonade cocktail sold at the US Open since 2007, has become a viral social-media fixture every fall, prompting other beverage brands to try to engineer similarly buzzy signature drinks. Its staying power predates modern platforms like Instagram and TikTok, yet it continues to dominate seasonal online chatter tied to the tennis tournament.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-11
The brother of a Muslim police officer who died in the September 11 attacks has spoken out against demands that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani skip the city's memorial ceremony. He said he was disappointed by the push to exclude Mamdani, defending the officer's memory as one that should not be used to justify exclusion.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-11
As autonomous vehicles spread, the article argues they will standardize driving behavior that has long varied dramatically by region—from aggressive New York drivers to Cairo's horn-based communication system to Jakarta's informal traffic-conductor tipping rituals. These local driving cultures, shaped by decades of human adaptation to specific urban conditions, could disappear as algorithmic driving replaces human judgment.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-11
During the CNBC Investing Club's September meeting, Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks reviewed all 33 portfolio holdings and highlighted six favorite stocks to buy as the club becomes more selective on AI-related exposure. The picks include Kimberly Clark, Bank of New York, Intel, Micron and Meta, with commentary also touching on lessons from the club's recent Corning exit.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-10
Microsoft has signed an agreement with the American Federation of Teachers and its New York affiliate, the United Federation of Teachers, laying out ten enforceable privacy and safety commitments for AI use in schools. The rules bar Microsoft from training models on student or teacher data, limit data collection, ban AI companions, and require human oversight for high-stakes decisions. Districts can add these terms to contracts starting in November without renegotiating existing agreements.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-09
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