Capitol Times AI & Technology Desk

Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million electric vehicles in China over concerns that occupants may have difficulty locating or operating emergency mechanical door releases after a serious crash, putting fresh scrutiny on one of the design features most closely associated with modern electric vehicles. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said Tesla filed recall plans covering **2,975,910 vehicles**, including China-made and imported Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X vehicles....

America’s artificial-intelligence boom is running into an increasingly fierce domestic battle over the enormous data centers needed to power it — and new evidence shows that China-linked influence operators have attempted to exploit that dispute as the technological rivalry between Washington and Beijing intensifies. OpenAI disclosed in June that it banned a cluster of accounts likely originating in China after they used ChatGPT to generate social-media content attacking U.S. data-center...

The artificial intelligence race in the United States is entering a new phase. For much of the early AI boom, the public conversation centered on chatbots, image generators and large language models. But the investment activity of 2026 is increasingly pointing somewhere deeper: the physical and industrial systems required to actually run an AI-powered economy. Semiconductors. Data centers. Voice interfaces. Automated factories. Defense manufacturing. Energy infrastructure. That emerging...