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United Airlines Blocks AI Bots From Booking Flights
Artificial Intelligence // November 11, 2026

United Airlines has instituted a policy preventing personal artificial intelligence agents from accessing its systems to complete flight bookings, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The decision highlights emerging friction between merchants and automated agentic commerce platforms. While AI agents will still be...

Meta Taps Former AWS Executive to Lead Infrastructure as AI Spending Surges
Artificial Intelligence // November 11, 2026

Meta is replacing a longtime infrastructure executive with a former Amazon Web Services leader as the social media company expands its data center capacity to support its artificial intelligence ambitions. Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering, will leave the company in...

New York Proposes $3 Million Daily Fines for AI Safety Violations
Artificial Intelligence // November 11, 2026

New York lawmakers want to make violations of artificial intelligence safety rules considerably more expensive. A bill known as RAISE Act 2.0 would charge frontier AI developers, the companies that build the most advanced AI models, by the day for each violation. Under Senate Bill...

New York Launches AI Safety Center Ahead of RAISE Act Deadline
Artificial Intelligence // November 11, 2026

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul launched a statewide artificial intelligence (AI) research and safety testing initiative on Tuesday (Nov. 10), building independent technical expertise to scrutinize powerful systems as the state prepares to implement its RAISE Act in January. The New York Center for AI...

Interviews & Exclusives
Amazon Targets Doctor Shortages With $100 Million AI Push

November 09, 2026
The next breakthrough in healthcare artificial intelligence may be making healthcare economically viable in places where there aren’t enough doctors to deliver it. That’s the proposition behind Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) $100 million commitment to AI, agentic services and cloud infrastructure, a five-year initiative targeting underserved populations and persistent gaps in healthcare access. “How can […]

Big Tech Faces Tougher Scrutiny of AI Spending After Selloff

November 09, 2026
The past week’s technology selloff increased pressure on the companies financing artificial intelligence’s expansion. Their latest spending plans, however, offer little evidence of an immediate retreat. The Nasdaq fell 5.5%...

Telecom Companies Give AI Agents More Responsibility

November 09, 2026
This week The Prompt Economy weekly dials up the telecom sector. It’s here that developers and engineers are exploring new ways to incorporate agentic artificial intelligence to fix problems and...

Moonshot’s Open-Weight Model Tops OpenAI on Financial Research Benchmark

November 05, 2026
The gap between open and closed artificial intelligence models narrowed again this week. Moonshot released the weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, and Mistral did the same for Large 4. Both...

Quick Reads
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns Amid Affair Scandal

November 12, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped down from the tech giant amid the company’s investigation into an extra-marital affair with another executive alleged to have ties to Chinese intelligence. Huang resigned as CEO, president and board member “effective immediately,” according to a Wednesday (Nov. 12) news release. Nvidia Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Colette […]

United Airlines Blocks AI Bots From Booking Flights

November 11, 2026
United Airlines has instituted a policy preventing personal artificial intelligence agents from accessing its systems to complete flight bookings, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The decision highlights...

Meta Taps Former AWS Executive to Lead Infrastructure as AI Spending Surges

November 11, 2026
Meta is replacing a longtime infrastructure executive with a former Amazon Web Services leader as the social media company expands its data center capacity to support its artificial intelligence ambitions....

New York Launches AI Safety Center Ahead of RAISE Act Deadline

November 11, 2026
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul launched a statewide artificial intelligence (AI) research and safety testing initiative on Tuesday (Nov. 10), building independent technical expertise to scrutinize powerful systems as the...