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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026.

Artificial Intelligence Sovereignty, safety, and scale: Takeaways from the India AI Impact Summit

Cameron F. Kerry, Elham Tabassi

March 12, 2026

HANOVER, GERMANY - MARCH 31: The Google Cloud and Microsoft pavilions stand next to each other at the 2025 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair on March 31, 2025 in Hanover, Germany. The fair, which showcases German and international industrial production, is taking place as trade relations between the European Union and the United States are becoming fractured by the threat of tariffs by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Corporations What happens when AI companies compete with their customers?

Mark MacCarthy

March 12, 2026

Mobile launcher 1 containing the massive Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building from Launch Pad 39B after a rollback that lasted over ten hours at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 25, 2026. NASA said on February 25 that it would roll its 322-foot (98-meter) SLS rocket off the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida after teams detected issues with helium flow. The decision means further delays for the highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission, which will last approximately 10 days and see three Americans and one Canadian fly around Earth's satellite. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images)

Space Exploration Going back to the moon | The TechTank Podcast

Darrell M. West, Casey Dreier

March 11, 2026

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) makes the first telephone call from New York to Chicago in 1892. Bell invented the telephone sixteen years earlier in 1876.

Internet & Telecommunications Happy anniversary, Alexander Graham Bell. What have we learned in 150 years?

Tom Wheeler

March 10, 2026

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