Anthropic filed to go public, listing an 'evolving and uncertain regulatory and political environment' among its key business risks ahead of a planned mid-November IPO. The filing comes as bipartisan opposition to data centers and AI-driven job displacement grows among voters, with new lawmakers from the midterms set to take office in January. CNN reports campaign ads opposing data centers have surged from 1% to nearly 8% of video ads, with more than $35 million spent on such messaging this cycle.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-27
Community groups in Columbus, Ohio and other U.S. cities are deploying trained volunteers to monitor and report ICE activity near polling locations ahead of the midterm elections. In Columbus, organizer Liliana Rivera Baiman says dozens of volunteers already patrol near early voting sites, with numbers expected to reach about 250 on Election Day, communicating sightings through Signal and WhatsApp groups. The effort follows ICE's Operation Buckeye last December, which targeted the city's Somali American community near a polling site.
wired.com
· 2026-10-27
Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy released a campaign ad that includes his opponent's estranged mother, drawing criticism from social media users just two weeks before the November 3 election. Critics say the ad crosses a line by invoking the opponent's personal family history and childhood trauma as a political attack.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-21
Intel said it has started installing production equipment at its Fab 62 facility in Arizona, with mass production targeted for late 2028. The company also gave updates on its Ohio One complex and confirmed it has brought High-NA EUV lithography into high-volume manufacturing, while continuing to invest in U.S.-based process R&D, advanced packaging and photomask production.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-21
Ohio State University researchers have developed a two-part system—an AI-powered 'e-nose' and a wearable receiver called a Scentronic—that can detect an odor and recreate it remotely. The Scentronic, available as a wristband, handheld device or necklace, uses a piezoelectric atomizer and Wi-Fi/cloud connection to reproduce scents; in tests, 16 participants correctly identified all five smells used (cake, beer, red wine, coffee and oranges).
cnet.com
· 2026-10-21
Intel announced it has installed the first major structural truss at its New Albany, Ohio semiconductor plant, marking the next construction phase. The project, originally expected to produce chips by 2025, is now targeted for completion in 2030, with a second fab slated for 2031. Intel has not confirmed reported talks with SK Hynix about leasing foundry space at the site.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-21
An explosion at a chemical distribution facility in Lucas County, Ohio sent plumes of industrial exhaust into the air Tuesday night, prompting officials to order evacuations within one mile and a shelter-in-place directive for residents within three miles. Emergency officials identified the leaking substance as glycidyl methacrylate, a compound broadly suspected of being carcinogenic, and a nearby trailer park sits just a quarter-mile from the site.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-21
Meta says the first phase of its gigawatt-scale Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio is complete and was used to train its Muse family of foundational models, including the new Muse Wonder models. The company plans to scale the cluster toward roughly one million GPUs and says it uses closed-loop liquid cooling, having achieved over 85% goodput in pre-training and over 90% in reinforcement learning runs for Muse Wonder.
engineering.fb.com
· 2026-10-19
A jury convicted Ohio political blogger DJ Byrnes of telecommunications harassment for sending state Sen. Jerry Cirino a nude image of Shrek along with an insulting message after Cirino dropped out of the state's Senate race. A judge ordered Byrnes, who runs the blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine. Byrnes had pleaded not guilty, arguing the text was protected free speech, but was arrested in June and briefly jailed despite posting bail.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-09
Ohio State University expelled a student after a prank sent a profane message into a public forum, and also removed a student from its network. Nebraska banned the Computers and Academic Freedom newsletter, citing policy violations. The FBI also requested a conference attendee to reveal his leg during an event, and Playboy contacted the project for an interview. The original archive of the discussion is available on GitHub.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-08
Reports on Ohio's Senate race describe how the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein has renewed attention on billionaire Les Wexner, a longtime major donor to candidates from both parties in the state. The issue has become a point of contention among voters across the political spectrum as campaigns navigate questions about Wexner's past ties to Epstein.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-23
A report from McKinsey and the SEMI Foundation, cited by CNBC, projects that US semiconductor fabs could face up to 157,000 unfilled jobs by 2030. Only 3% of American engineering graduates currently enter the chip industry, and 73% of chip companies say they struggle to fill engineering positions, even as firms like TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix expand US manufacturing capacity.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-18
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