Have you ever used the Image Playground app on your iPhone? Probably not — and you might not even know that your phone has a built-in AI image-generation tool. That’s because until now, Image ...

In spring 2026, numerous Facebook users shared images purportedly showing water towers all over the U.S. featuring the same text criticizing artificial intelligence data centers. The message simply ...

Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. For ...

Some of the world’s largest tech companies are looking to set up huge data centers in small Michigan communities, drawing questions from residents and leaving ill-equipped local governments to grapple ...

Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog, the DPC, said it is investigating X over concerns that the social-media platform could be breaching European Union privacy rules. “The DPC has been engaging with ...

With community opposition growing, data center backers are going on a full-scale public relations blitz. Around Christmas in Virginia, which boasts the highest concentration of data centers in the ...

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), and Mannheim University Medical Center (UMM) are presenting a method that enables artificial intelligence ...

Following the release of GPT-5.2 last week, OpenAI has begun rolling out a new image generation model. The company says the updated ChatGPT Images is four times faster than its predecessor. If you're ...

Ford is jumping into the battery energy storage business, betting that booming demand from data centers and the electric grid can absorb the EV battery capacity it says it’s not using. To achieve this ...