To be eligible for the two-year program, you need only “strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for public service.”​

Rodney Brooks said future “humanoid” robots will have wheels and multiple arms.

According to Justina Nixon-Saintil, IBM’s chief impact officer, 2025 was the year “the penny dropped” for AI.

“It’s like the Gilded Age, part two,” Kerwin Olson, a leader of an anti-data center activist group, said. “Only bigger.”

With dozens of state measures on AI and a new executive order seeking to override them, businesses will have a lot to sort through in 2026.

While a breach of the tools hasn’t so far caused a wide-scale attack, there have been a few exploits and near-misses.