Every generation has its “technology of fear.” In the early days of electricity, people feared power lines. Later it was radio towers, microwave ovens, bar codes, RFID tags, and cellular networks. Today the subjects have expanded to include nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, Wi-Fi sensing, smart streetlights, automatic license plate readers, and smart city infrastructure. Tomorrow it will almost certainly be another emerging technology that most people have never heard of until it suddenly appears in a viral social media post.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most strategically important technologies of the twenty-first century. It is transforming medicine, engineering, manufacturing, scientific research, education, national defense, cybersecurity, transportation, robotics, and nearly every sector of the economy. Decisions made during the next few years will influence American competitiveness for decades.

Deep Fission, Inc., headquartered in Berkeley, California, is an advanced nuclear energy company developing a fundamentally different approach to deploying small modular nuclear reactors by installing them approximately one mile underground inside deep engineered boreholes. The company’s website is ⁠Deep Fission.

The Strait of Hormuz became the center of the U.S.–Israel war with Iran during the week ending Sunday, July 12, 2026. What began as a dispute over navigation routes and Iranian control of shipping escalated into three major rounds of American strikes, renewed Iranian attacks on neighboring countries, severe disruption to commercial traffic and an increasingly dangerous test of whether Iran can use the world’s energy supply as leverage against the United States.

he Foundation of Modern Electronic Privacy

When Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), Public Law 99-508, on October 21, 1986, it fundamentally changed how the United States protects electronic communications. The Act amended Title 18 of the United States Code, primarily 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–2523, §§ 2701–2713, and §§ 3121–3127, extending privacy protections beyond traditional telephone communications to include electronic communications and computer networks.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, hyperscale infrastructure, and high-density computing is forcing a fundamental redesign of how data centers are monitored and controlled. Unitronics’ technical paper, “PLCs Profit from the Data Center Automation Revolution,” examines how programmable logic controllers (PLCs) integrated with the industry-standard Redfish management protocol can simplify data center automation while improving reliability, energy efficiency, and operational control.

Artificial intelligence has entered an era in which success is often measured by the size of a model, the number of graphics processors used for training, and the billions of dollars invested in computing infrastructure. A compelling new direction, however, has emerged from research by Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Senior AI Researcher at Samsung SAIT AI Lab in Montreal. In her paper, “Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks,” available through the arXiv research repository, she presents a fundamentally different approach to solving certain classes of reasoning problems.

The significance of Hitachi Energy’s new transformer manufacturing expansion in South Boston, Virginia, extends well beyond the addition of another factory. When viewed alongside a series of major investments announced across the Southeast during the past year, a much larger story emerges. Rather than isolated projects, these investments are forming an integrated regional manufacturing corridor capable of supplying many of the critical components required to build, modernize, and maintain the North American electric grid.

When most people think about the equipment that powers the electric grid, they picture transmission towers, substations, or perhaps the generating stations that produce electricity. Few realize that one of the most valuable pieces of equipment in the entire system is a machine that quietly sits inside those substations for decades, often unnoticed until it must be replaced. That machine is the large power transformer, and it has become one of the world’s most difficult electrical products to manufacture.

Artificial intelligence has brought unprecedented attention to advanced computer chips, hyperscale data centers, and the enormous demand for electricity needed to power them. Yet one of the most critical components required to make this new era possible receives little public attention. It contains no microprocessors, executes no software, and stores no data. Instead, it quietly performs one indispensable function: moving massive amounts of electrical energy safely and efficiently across the nation’s transmission network.

That component is the large power transformer.