After years of touting ambitious climate goals, big tech companies are now facing new scrutiny over what they disclose about AI's environmental footprint. Why it matters: The AI boom is turning a handful of tech companies into defining players in the debate over electricity and water use. Their willingness to disclose these impacts is becoming almost as important as the impacts themselves. Driving the news: New environmental reports from Google , Amazon and Microsoft show emissions and water use continuing to rise as AI infrastructure expands — while revealing differences in what the companies disclose. - "There is a bit of a reluctance to share a lot of things in this competitive dynamic and also with these being public companies,"…
A parade of prominent conservative figures are descending on a Utah courthouse this week to attend the preliminary hearing for the man accused of murdering Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk . Why it matters: The show of support in Provo underscores that, nearly a year after his assassination, Kirk remains a unifying figure across the Republican Party and the MAGA movement. Driving the news: Among those who have joined Kirk's family members this week in attending hearings for accused killer Tyler Robinson are: - Donald Trump Jr. - Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) - Conservative influencers Jack Posobiec and Graham Allen, and - Rush Limbaugh's widow, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh. The big picture: Kirk's assassination has led to a high-profile…
A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience artificial intelligence : - For frontier power users, AI feels like a revolution: a force capable of conjuring companies, building software and solving complex problems at warp speed. - For the average person, it feels more like an evolution: a smarter search bar, a faster inbox, an ambient tech layer that saves time — but not much else. Why it matters: Trillions of dollars in economic value — and the livelihoods of millions of workers — are being staked on a technology that most Americans neither trust nor fully understand. - It's a new chapter in America's digital divide — the AI "haves," "have-nots" and "know-nots" — with profound implications for the future…
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.
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An explosion in Iran as seen in a screengrab released by US Central Command. Photograph: US Central Command Published July 10, 2026 The Middle East has entered another dangerous phase of conflict after Iran launched retaliatory [...]
Fighting between U.S. and Iran appears to have stopped as Iran buried its Supreme Leader, TPS holders close to losing work permits, investigation continues into Mississippi teen's death.
A wildfire in southern Spain has killed at least 11 people, making it one of the country's deadliest on record, as soaring temperatures grip much of the country.
