Emerging Tech

The city and the chamber of commerce, along with workforce, business and education folk, are planning the Haverhill AI Summit in June. It is intended to help attendees become aware of and prep for AI.

The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has signed letters of intent to invest $2 billion in nine quantum computing companies, with the two biggest being GloblFoundaries at $375 million and IBM at $1 billion.

After months of development, the Texas city’s new initiative will deploy from nine locations, to respond to 911 calls and feed live footage back to officers. Video is not recorded en route to calls.

Package delivery by drone has won approval from the North Haven Planning and Zoning Commission. After the FAA signs off on Prime Air flights from North Haven, the devices will be clear for takeoff.

The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Pinelands Alliance and The Nature Conservancy, is calling on Gov. Mikie Sherrill to halt, for now, approval and construction of large-scale data centers.

Data center operators need to talk proactively about their approach to building responsibly, and address community concerns without relying on local government bureaucracy as a buffer.

Plus, Meta’s largest data center to date goes up in Louisiana, robots will soon work out at a gym in Germany, and Uber makes a $1.25 billion deal with Rivian.

County commissioners advanced a deal to expand a network of automatic license plate readers under the sheriff’s control, after much debate. A pact for AI-fueled video cameras in the jail, however, got deferred.

Concern over AI governance is not a geopolitical abstract but an unavoidable local actuality, and the U.S. may be amenable to cooperation with China despite the AI race between the superpowers.

As automated license plate-reading cameras take hold at more than two dozen police departments around the state, Lowe’s and Home Depot stores there have installed the devices in many parking lots.

Kentucky’s two largest power utilities are collaborating with a prefabricated nuclear reactor manufacturer in Maryland to explore producing nuclear energy in the state for the first time.

A proposed law, the Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act, would require data centers to pay the full cost of electricity and other resources they purchase, and safeguard the public against rate hikes.

Code for America’s 2026 Government AI Landscape Assessment evaluates states’ AI readiness, highlighting progress made within the past year, across four stages: readiness, piloting, implementation and impact.

Smart glasses are wearable computers designed to look like regular eyewear while offering hands-free access to information through audio, built-in cameras and, increasingly, artificial intelligence.

City leaders from Boston to San Antonio to Tokyo intend to shape how AI is built and governed. The group has the support of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University.

Mayor Vi Lyles cast a tie-breaking vote, leading a motion that could have fast-tracked a moratorium to fail. A data center discussion is on the May 11 meeting agenda, but the council won’t be able to vote on it.

Utah’s Director of AI Christian Napier on how piloting Claude Code at state agencies boosted developer productivity, saving 40 hours of work over a four-week period.

After a 2024 pilot, Merrimack Valley Transit in northeastern Massachusetts has piloted so-called mirrorless camera technology on 60 percent of its bus fleet. The three-camera system joins existing mirrors.