NEW: Artificial general intelligence isn’t about curing cancer or American dominance. According to Open AI & Microsoft it’s about one thing – massive profits. And they’re engaged in a covert campaign to eliminate any regulation that might slow their path to consolidating power.

BREAKING: Trump announces that the CEO of Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in the company.

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Waymo has received official permission to start testing cars in New York City. The company will initially test eight of its autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a driver behind the wheel.

NEW: In St. Charles, Missouri, a secret tech company just withdrew their plans to build an AI data center after widespread community outrage. Many think the developers will return in hopes that public attention dies down—but residents vow they’ll be waiting.

NEW: The Louisiana Public Service Commission just approved Entergy’s plans to power Meta’s largest data center in the world. We were in the room when it happened. Amid a crowd of lobbyists and execs, a few courageous activists yelled “shame!” at the commission after the vote.

Employees at the world’s richest bank, JP Morgan, are attempting to unionize. The JPMC Workers Alliance says it is organizing for more flexibility in work hours, fairer share of profits, and better medical leave.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner explains why he's running for Senate: . "American history is not a history of asking permission to get things from those in power. we need to build organizational power in communities and workplaces." (via @majorityfm)

NEW: Rail lobbyists representing giants like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern want to automate track inspections. Why? It would bring rail carriers more profits. Critics warn this would undermine safety — or even cause a repeat of what happened in East Palestine.

A recent MIT study found that 95 percent of companies studied are getting zero return on AI—despite investing billions. Investors have been expecting record returns for their expenditures, but some are beginning to fear this could be an indication of a speculative bubble.

Read the report from @IPS_DC here: And the news story from The Guardian:

A new report finds that the biggest 100 companies in America who pay the lowest wages to workers – companies like Walmart, Amazon, and Chipotle – have CEOs making 632 times as much as the average median worker pay.

A worker at Yosemite National Park was just fired for hanging a trans flag on El Capitan in their personal time. "It's devastating to dedicate yourself to something that you don't see partisan lines for, and to then be the subject of someone's political whims," they told us.

NEW: Is it just us, or has Google gotten worse?. After years of relentless growth, the "don’t be evil" company has effectively monopolized the internet. It’s using this chokehold to drive up revenue by forcing ads on users—at the expense of quality and useful search results.

Watch our report from three years ago detailing this problem consumers frequently face.

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against LA Fitness and other gyms for making memberships “impossible to cancel.”. Despite receiving "tens of thousands" of complaints, these gyms "have consistently failed to provide a simple cancellation method," the FTC says.

Sony has announced that due to a "challenging economic environment" resulting from Trump's tariffs, the cost of a Playstation will go up $50 this month. Nintendo and Microsoft previously raised the prices of their video game consoles, citing the impact of Trump's tariffs.

The unfair labor practices at issue involve a group of SpaceX workers who criticized Elon Musk and called out sexism at the company.

A federal appeals court has sided with SpaceX in saying that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. The court blocked the NLRB from prosecuting charges of unfair labor practices at the company. The NLRB is expected to challenge the ruling.

RT @BernieSanders: Congratulations to the people of St. Charles, MO for fighting back against a new data center that would use massive amou….