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FFRF Rebuts Oklahoma AG's Defense of School-Sponsored Prayer
MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 27 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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FFRF rebuts Oklahoma AG's defense of school-sponsored prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is refuting the Oklahoma attorney general's erroneous claim that a public school district is free to organize and promote a Christian prayer event.
FFRF recently secured a victory for students and families in Muskogee Public Schools after the district canceled a school-sponsored "Back to School Community Prayer Walk" scheduled for Aug. 12 at Muskogee 6th and 7th Grade Academy. The district
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MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 27 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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FFRF rebuts Oklahoma AG's defense of school-sponsored prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is refuting the Oklahoma attorney general's erroneous claim that a public school district is free to organize and promote a Christian prayer event.
FFRF recently secured a victory for students and families in Muskogee Public Schools after the district canceled a school-sponsored "Back to School Community Prayer Walk" scheduled for Aug. 12 at Muskogee 6th and 7th Grade Academy. The districtcanceled the event, removed its announcements and notified parents subsequent to receiving an Aug. 11 letter from FFRF objecting to the unconstitutional religious exercise.
Rather than applaud the district for respecting the constitutional rights of its students and parents, Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued a letter on Aug. 21 claiming that the district had no constitutional obligation to cancel the event. He argued that because attendance was voluntary and occurred outside instructional hours, the so-called prayer walk did not violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. He also offered the Attorney General's Office's assistance to other Oklahoma school districts receiving similar complaints.
"The attorney general is attempting to give Oklahoma public schools a green light to sponsor religious exercises -- and the Constitution simply does not permit that," says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. "Public schools serve students of all religions and no religion. They have no business organizing prayer or any other religious events and encouraging families to participate. If that doesn't constitute an establishment of religion, as explicitly barred under the Establishment Clause, what does?"
FFRF has quickly responded with a follow-up letter to Muskogee Superintendent Jarod Mendenhall explaining why Drummond's legal analysis is wrong.
Drummond asserted that there could be no Establishment Clause violation because students were not compelled to attend the prayer walk. But as FFRF's response notes, courts have repeatedly rejected the notion that lack of coercion excuses unconstitutional actions by public schools.
FFRF's letter asserts that Drummond mischaracterizes the Supreme Court's 2022 Kennedy v. Bremerton School District decision, which is regarding a football coach's quiet, private prayers while acting in his personal capacity. It does not give public schools license to organize and promote religious exercises -- and it certainly doesn't establish coercion as a requirement to find school action in violation of the Establishment Clause. Unlike the private prayer at issue in Kennedy, Muskogee's prayer walk was organized, promoted and hosted by the school itself. The Supreme Court has continued to reaffirm that government must remain neutral between religion and nonreligion.
"The attorney general is trying to turn Kennedy into a blank check for government-sponsored religion that the Supreme Court never wrote," says FFRF Staff Attorney Sammi Lawrence. "There is an obvious constitutional difference between protecting an individual's private prayer and allowing a public school to organize a prayer event of its own."
Drummond additionally falsely suggests that FFRF's position would prevent religious organizations from renting public school facilities on the same terms as secular organizations. However, public schools may make their facilities available to religious and secular third-party organizations on an equal basis under neutral policies. The Supreme Court has long protected such equal access. But that isn't what happened in Muskogee.
FFRF is urging Muskogee Public Schools to continue honoring its commitment not to organize or promote religious activities. Muskogee Public Schools got it right the first time. The attorney general should help Oklahoma school districts obey the Constitution, not encourage them to violate long-established principles of neutrality toward religion and protection of student rights to freedom of conscience.
FFRF appreciates the district's prompt action in canceling the prayer walk and protecting the rights of all Muskogee students and families -- regardless of their religious or nonreligious beliefs.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with about 41,000 members nationwide, including hundreds of members in Oklahoma. FFRF's purposes are to defend the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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Original text here: https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-rebuts-oklahoma-ags-defense-of-school-sponsored-prayer/
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Columbia's Technology & Democracy Initiative and The Jed Foundation Launch Partnership on Teen Mental Health and AI
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 27 -- The Jed Foundation issued the following news release:
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Columbia's Technology & Democracy Initiative (TDI) and The Jed Foundation Launch Partnership on Teen Mental Health and AI
Sixty-four percent of American teenagers use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, with 12 percent of those teens specifically seeking emotional support or advice. But when a teen experiencing emotional distress or suicidal thoughts reaches out to one of these tools, the response is often inadequate. AI systems have advised young people on how to hide their symptoms from caregivers,
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 27 -- The Jed Foundation issued the following news release:
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Columbia's Technology & Democracy Initiative (TDI) and The Jed Foundation Launch Partnership on Teen Mental Health and AI
Sixty-four percent of American teenagers use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, with 12 percent of those teens specifically seeking emotional support or advice. But when a teen experiencing emotional distress or suicidal thoughts reaches out to one of these tools, the response is often inadequate. AI systems have advised young people on how to hide their symptoms from caregivers,claimed to be therapists, and provided instructions on lethal means of suicide.
Columbia University's Technology & Democracy Initiative, part of Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics, and The Jed Foundation (JED), a leading nonprofit dedicated to protecting emotional health and preventing suicide among teens and young adults, are launching a new partnership to bridge mental health expertise and AI safety practice.
The partners believe the challenge is not simply that these technologies are imperfect. Mental health experts, AI developers, and safety workers are beginning to work more closely together than they once did, but collaboration remains uneven: the two fields use different vocabularies and often lack a shared framework for translating what a young person in crisis needs into the technical choices that shape how AI systems behave. The partners see a timely opportunity to build on emerging momentum and establish a shared language and roadmap to guide this emerging area of practice.
The TDI/JED partnership will begin with an expert roundtable, followed by a jointly authored working paper. The paper will establish a shared conceptual and practical foundation that AI developers, mental health and suicide prevention experts, policymakers, and platform safety teams can all work from. It will map where expert judgment needs to be built into technical systems - not just at the moment a chatbot responds, but across every layer, from the policies that govern a system, to how it recognizes a young person is struggling, to how it connects people to support.
What comes next
The roundtable and working paper are the first phase of a longer-term effort. They lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive reference document, Anatomy of a Mental Health Technical Response, planned for a subsequent phase as a practical guide that the field currently lacks. The partners also intend for the roundtable to seed a durable cross-sector network, bringing clinicians and technologists into ongoing collaboration.
Further details about the roundtable and additional partners will be announced in the coming months. To read more about the Columbia Global Innovation Awards program supporting this work, see here (https://global.columbia.edu/opportunities/faculty-opportunities/columbia-global-innovation-awards-2026-projects).
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About Columbia SIPA's Institute for Global Politics (IGP)
IGP drives real-world impact by convening leading scholars and practitioners, developing policy solutions, and training the next generation of leaders. IGP's Technology & Democracy Initiative advances impactful research and resources for policymakers, the tech community, and civil society. The initiative addresses the most urgent technology challenges of the day, from the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy to mitigating online harms and strengthening collective digital governance.
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About The Jed Foundation
JED is committed to protecting emotional health and preventing suicide for our nation's teens and young adults. JED partners with high schools, colleges, school districts, and youth-serving community-based organizations to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs and systems. JED equips teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other, and encourages community awareness, understanding, and action for young adult mental health.
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Original text here: https://jedfoundation.org/columbias-technology-democracy-initiative-tdi-and-the-jed-foundation-launch-partnership-on-teen-mental-health-and-ai/
Boston Foundation Names Natalie Herter as Chief Investment Officer
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 27 -- The Boston Foundation issued the following news release:
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The Boston Foundation names Natalie Herter as Chief Investment Officer
The Boston Foundation is pleased to announce that Natalie Herter, a longtime investment leader at mission-driven organizations, has been named the Boston Foundation's new Chief Investment Officer, beginning September 2.
She replaces longtime CIO George Wilson, who announced his intention to step down last fall after more than 18 years guiding the Foundation's investment portfolio.
Herter comes to TBF after most recently serving
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 27 -- The Boston Foundation issued the following news release:
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The Boston Foundation names Natalie Herter as Chief Investment Officer
The Boston Foundation is pleased to announce that Natalie Herter, a longtime investment leader at mission-driven organizations, has been named the Boston Foundation's new Chief Investment Officer, beginning September 2.
She replaces longtime CIO George Wilson, who announced his intention to step down last fall after more than 18 years guiding the Foundation's investment portfolio.
Herter comes to TBF after most recently servingas Director of Investments for the Mount Holyoke College Investment Office. Prior to that, she spent over a decade at Cambridge Associates where she ultimately served as a Managing Director and Investment Team lead in the Endowment & Foundation practice, managing clients and portfolios with total assets of roughly $4 billion.
"We are truly thrilled to welcome Natalie Herter as our new Chief Investment Officer. While we were fortunate to have an exceptionally strong and deep pool of candidates, Natalie's combination of deep and relevant experience, her investment acumen, and her engaging interpersonal style make her an ideal choice for the role," said Brian Douglas, Chief Financial Officer and incoming Interim President and CEO of the Boston Foundation.
Herter was selected from more than 160 applicants for the role, which oversees investments of the Foundation's $2.7 billion in assets. Korn Ferry managed the nationwide search, which was guided by a committee of Boston Foundation senior staff, Board members and community investment leaders. She joins the Foundation as it continues to enjoy a period of record asset growth. During Wilson's nearly two decades as Chief Investment Officer, TBF's assets more than tripled--from just over $700 million in 2007 to $2.7 billion today. Wilson will work with Herter to ensure an orderly transition in the coming months.
"We are deeply grateful to George Wilson for his stewardship of the Foundation's assets over nearly two decades," said Raja Bobbili, Managing Director at Abrams Capital and Chair of the Boston Foundation's Investment Committee. "Natalie brings the experience, judgment and perspective to build on that strong foundation, and we look forward to working with Natalie to refresh and reinvigorate an already-strong investment program."
Herter is a graduate of Middlebury College and is a CFA charterholder.
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Original text here: https://www.tbf.org/news-and-insights/press-releases/2026/august/natalie-herter-named-chief-investment-officer
WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reject Canadian Plaintiff's Attempt to Invoke U.S. Antitrust Law
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reject Canadian Plaintiff's Attempt to Invoke U.S. Antitrust Law
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"The Sherman Act isn't a global competition code. It isn't meant to benefit foreign plaintiffs who sue for alleged injuries abroad."
-Jay DeSanto, WLF Senior Litigation Counsel
Click HERE to read WLF's brief.
Washington, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, urging the court to affirm dismissal of a Canadian
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reject Canadian Plaintiff's Attempt to Invoke U.S. Antitrust Law
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"The Sherman Act isn't a global competition code. It isn't meant to benefit foreign plaintiffs who sue for alleged injuries abroad."
-Jay DeSanto, WLF Senior Litigation Counsel
Click HERE to read WLF's brief.
Washington, DC-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, urging the court to affirm dismissal of a Canadianplaintiff's class-action antitrust suit against Google. In its brief, WLF argues that the Federal Trade Antitrust Improvements Act (FTAIA) bars Canadians from using the Sherman Act to sue Google for app purchases made on Google's Canadian platform.
The case arises from allegations by a Canadian, Connor Hurley, who bought apps for his cell phone through Google Play's Canadian storefront. Hurley bases his Sherman Act claims on allegations that Google charged app developers supra-competitive commissions on app sales in the United States. Although he purchased the apps in Canada-and developers, not Google, independently set the prices-Hurley contends that Google's commissions in the United States ultimately affected those prices, resulting in overcharges to himself and other Canadians.
WLF's brief argues that the FTAIA bars Hurley's claims because his concession that app developers set consumer prices defeats the statute's proximate-cause requirement. WLF argues that allowing Hurley's claims to proceed would undermine the respect sovereign nations afford each other by permitting Canadians to circumvent Canada's Competition Act and invoke U.S. law for transactions and alleged injuries occurring in Canada. Such extraterritorial application of U.S. antitrust law would effectively transform American courts into a global forum for disputes over app pricing-a result at odds with the FTAIA.
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Original text here: https://www.wlf.org/2026/08/26/communicating/wlf-urges-ninth-circuit-to-reject-canadian-plaintiffs-attempt-to-invoke-u-s-antitrust-law/
Foundation for Economic Education Posts Commentary Entitled 'Brasilia Makes Friends With Beijing'
DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 26 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary by political theorist Jake Scott:
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Brasilia Makes Friends with Beijing
A major policy pivot to Asian trade.
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On a Sunday night in late July, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and China's Xi Jinping spoke for more than an hour. It was cordial and faintly triumphant, with the two governments announcing their intention to accelerate a long-stalled China-Mercosur trade agreement. Alongside this, there are plans to deepen cooperation on satellites and critical-minerals processing, and waive
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DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 26 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary by political theorist Jake Scott:
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Brasilia Makes Friends with Beijing
A major policy pivot to Asian trade.
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On a Sunday night in late July, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and China's Xi Jinping spoke for more than an hour. It was cordial and faintly triumphant, with the two governments announcing their intention to accelerate a long-stalled China-Mercosur trade agreement. Alongside this, there are plans to deepen cooperation on satellites and critical-minerals processing, and waiveshort-stay visa requirements.
This marks a serious change for Brazil. For years, it was Brasilia that had spearheaded all resistance to exactly this sort of deal within the Mercosur bloc. The reversal was as sudden as it was shocking, taking only a fortnight to emerge, following a new American tariff taking effect and the Brazilian president deciding that the cost of alignment with the United States had, at last, exceeded its benefits.
Confronted with a United States that has moved from partner to antagonist, Brazil sees itself as neither retaliating in kind nor capitulating; it is hedging, deliberately, on several fronts at once. For many observers, this is a rational reaction to the emergence of an increasingly multipolar world. But just under a century ago, this practice had a name: "pragmatic equidistance." It was the way Brazil described its international strategy of balancing relationships with competing powers without committing to either.
The ongoing and escalating international trade war fueled by retaliatory tariffs has been the main catalyst here. In late July, a 25% tariff covering a broad range of Brazilian goods came into effect; per the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry's reckoning, nearly half of all Brazilian exports to the United States are now subject to some form of additional duty. Alongside the general tariffs, a "forced-labor" levy of 12.5% was introduced by the US to enforce bans on importing goods made with forced labor abroad, which in many ways represents a globalization of America's existing ban on Chinese goods using forced labor.
It is estimated that the hardest-hit goods carry a combined tariff of 37.5%.
President Lula's response has been to reframe the introduction of these tariffs as Washington's error rather than Brazil's, calling the tariffs a "strategic mistake" in the Washington Post, and warning that the tariffs will drive Brazilian firms to replace their American suppliers with partners elsewhere.
The rhetoric is only part of it, though: Brazil has filed for consultations with the World Trade Organization to challenge both the broad tariffs and the forced-labor levy as breaches of the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The effectiveness of these consultations is up for debate given the WTO's general paralysis, but what matters more is what this reveals for Brazil's international-relations strategy: it is pragmatic equidistance on display. Brazil has filed the complaint with the WTO, while continuing negotiations with the US.
Meanwhile, Brazil is attempting to hedge its bets by engaging with the wider global economy. This month, ApexBrasil (the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency) has launched a R$105 million ($20.5 million) program to support just shy of 2,500 exporters across 57 industries in their search for new markets, including the EU, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.
Simultaneously, the Mercosur bloc is actively pursuing parallel deals with India, Japan, and Canada, with Brazil at the heart of this strategy. Lula has enacted the Mercosur-Singapore agreement, the bloc's first with a Southeast Asian economy, under which Brazilian exports will progressively enter duty-free.
What is also interesting is what the imposition of these tariffs has meant for Lula at home. Many Brazilians read the tariff regime as a direct attempt to influence the Brazilian elections that are due to take place in October 2026, which in turn has allowed Lula to cast himself as a defender of Brazil's sovereignty against foreign interference. This strategy has borne fruit: Lula's polling has remained steady in the mid-40s, while Flavio Bolsonaro--the only other major contender--has seen his popularity steadily decline since April 2026, meaning Lula's lead has slowly widened.
It may not have helped Bolsonaro that his presidential bid launch saw him flanked by Javier Milei and Benjamin Netenyahu, with few Brazilian politicians in the room. International campaigning is increasingly common, but in a climate skeptical of foreign interference, that move may have been more than a little tone-deaf, especially given the increasingly strained relations between Argentina and Brazil.
Not only this, but when the US sent election officials to verify the integrity of Brazil's electoral system, their visas were simply denied. For a public that is heavily resistant to the sense of being managed from abroad, this was a message that landed exactly in the way it was needed to.
Most notable, however, is Brazil's attempt to sidestep all of this via improved trade relations between the Mercosur bloc and China. Of course, Mercosur is a customs union, and so all members must negotiate jointly--which is why a proposed China agreement has been formally proposed and "under study" since around 2017. In this, Brazil had been the brake, while Uruguay had spent years advocating for the trade agreement, and pursuing its own China talks whilst the other Mercosur members stalled.
In January 2023, Lula traveled to Montevideo to argue that Mercosur should secure an EU deal first, and only then negotiate with China. With this deal signed in Asuncion in January 2026--after 26 years of negotiations--and coming into effect in Brazil in April, the roadblock had been cleared. At least, on Brasilia's end: Argentina's President Javier Milei is ideologically opposed to China, and will likely veto any deal pursued by Mercosur. China is already Brazil's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade valued at $188 billion, and a deal could meet Brazil's other strategic interests, such as widening agricultural access.
Regardless, Brazil has been hedging its international trade relations with careful maneuvering, and in the long run, this may be the smart move.
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Dr Jake Scott is a political theorist specialising in populism and its relationship to political constitutionality. He has taught at multiple British universities and produced research reports for several think tanks.
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Original text here: https://fee.org/articles/brasilia-makes-friends-with-beijing/
Data Centers Are Americans' Least Favored Form of Development, New Research From Public First and ITIF Shows
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 [Category: Computer Technology]-- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation posted the following news release:
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Data Centers Are Americans' Least Favored Form of Development, New Research From Public First and ITIF Shows
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WASHINGTON-Nearly half of Americans (46 percent) oppose new data center developments in their communities, and barely a quarter (26 percent) support them, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Public First in partnership with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). That gives data centers the least support by
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 [Category: Computer Technology]-- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation posted the following news release:
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Data Centers Are Americans' Least Favored Form of Development, New Research From Public First and ITIF Shows
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WASHINGTON-Nearly half of Americans (46 percent) oppose new data center developments in their communities, and barely a quarter (26 percent) support them, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Public First in partnership with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). That gives data centers the least support bya wide margin among 10 types of local development the poll tested.
Build this in your community?
Support
Oppose
Net support
New housing
58%
15%
+43
Road or highway
48%
18%
+30
Solar farm
47%
22%
+25
Warehouse
44%
23%
+21
Wind farm
43%
22%
+21
Train station
43%
25%
+18
Shopping mall
42%
26%
+16
Office complex
35%
25%
+10
Power plant or electric infrastructure
35%
33%
+2
A new data center
26%
46%
-20
Opposition to data center development is strong enough that when Americans are asked about nearby land with no other viable uses, 49 percent say they would prefer it to stay undeveloped and unused, and 33 percent would choose to have the land developed with a new data center. Among those planning to vote Democrat in the midterms, 56 percent would prefer it to remain undeveloped; among those planning to vote Republican, 44 percent would rather have no development than a data center.
"We've seen opposition to data centers grow fast since the start of the year, but this is not just because of concerns about water and energy use," said Seb Wride, head of research and insights at Public First. "It is reflecting growing concern about AI in general. Data center developers are therefore not up against ordinary local resistance to a large building, but on the front-lines of an otherwise intangible argument about how fast to move on AI"
Public First partnered with ITIF to conduct an online survey of 2,007 U.S. adults between August 8 and 12, 2026. Results are weighted to be nationally representative of U.S. adults.
Opposition to AI
Asked about support for building data centers with different objectives, a majority of Americans support building data centers if the use case is specified to be online banking or video streaming, but support drops and opposition increases when the data center is specified to be used for training AI models. Notably, support for office space for an AI laboratory also saw less support than data centers for government data and online banking, even though offices were broadly supported in local communities.
Build more of this in America?
Support
Oppose
Net support
Data centers for storing government data
37%
26%
+11
Data centers for online banking, video streaming, photo storage
42%
24%
+18
Office space for an American tech company to establish a new AI laboratory
34%
29%
+5
Data centers used to train AI models
31%
33%
-2
This opposition to AI use cases holds true across key groups:
Those intending to vote Democrat at the midterms mostly support data centers for online banking (41 percent support, 27 percent oppose), but mostly oppose them for training AI models (29 percent support, 41 percent oppose).
Republican voters show the same directional pattern, with support dropping from data centers that are for banking (54 percent support, 19 percent opposition) to AI (46 percent support, 24 percent oppose), though they remain supportive.
The youngest Americans also flip depending on the specified function of the data center, from online banking data centers (41 percent support, 25 percent opposition) to AI (31 percent support, 38 percent oppose).
Widening the lens, the new poll adds greater insight on top of a global survey Public First conducted earlier in the year showing substantially less support for data centers in the United States than in other countries.
"America will not succeed in AI if Americans oppose the basic infrastructure needed to build and run it," said ITIF President Daniel Castro. "Data centers are to AI what highways were to the automobile: essential infrastructure that makes a transformative technology useful at scale. A country cannot lead the world in AI while opposing the infrastructure that makes that leadership possible. Blocking data centers may preserve some land in the short term, but over time it would leave America with less investment, fewer opportunities, and less ability to compete in the technologies that will shape the economy and national security."
Public First and ITIF released the new survey data on Wednesday, August 26, in an ITIF webinar open to the public.
Review the survey and watch the webinar at itif.org.
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Original text here: https://itif.org/publications/publications/2026/08/26/data-centers-are-americans-least-favored-form-of-development/
Breakthrough T1D Celebrates FDA Approval of First Dual Glucose-Ketone Sensing Technology
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 -- Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) a non-profit dedicated to funding type 1 diabetes research, posted the following news release:
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Breakthrough T1D Celebrates FDA Approval of First Dual Glucose-Ketone Sensing Technology
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Breakthrough T1D applauds the authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the world's first dual glucose-ketone sensing technology, for individuals ages 2 and older with diabetes. Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day is a two-in-one sensor that monitors both glucose and ketones and is expected to launch in the U.S. later this year.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26 -- Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) a non-profit dedicated to funding type 1 diabetes research, posted the following news release:
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Breakthrough T1D Celebrates FDA Approval of First Dual Glucose-Ketone Sensing Technology
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Breakthrough T1D applauds the authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the world's first dual glucose-ketone sensing technology, for individuals ages 2 and older with diabetes. Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day is a two-in-one sensor that monitors both glucose and ketones and is expected to launch in the U.S. later this year.
Diabeticketoacidosis (DKA) is one of the most common complications of T1D, and it can be life-threatening. Despite DKA being relatively common in people with T1D, studies have shown that most people with T1D do not have the tools at home to measure ketone levels. This device will give individuals with T1D a seamless way to monitor ketones before high ketone levels or symptoms develop without needing an additional device, allowing them to act earlier and prevent progression into DKA.
"In my role with Breakthrough T1D, and as someone who has lived with type 1 diabetes for decades, I understand the serious risk of diabetic ketoacidosis and how challenging it can be to identify and monitor elevated ketone levels," said Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Breakthrough T1D. "New technology like Abbott's dual glucose-ketone system has the potential to change that reality by giving people early and actionable information that can help identify and prevent dangerous complications like DKA. Breakthrough T1D is excited that the diabetes community will have this option available to support their day-to-day management."
This milestone reflects years of Breakthrough T1D investment. Breakthrough T1D has funded research to make continuous ketone monitoring devices a reality and continues to study how they can help address ketones before they progress to DKA and mitigate the risks associated with certain adjunctive therapies, such as SGLT2 inhibitors.
Breakthrough T1D also led the first-ever international expert recommendations for use of CKM, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology earlier this year.
Read Abbott's announcement.
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Original text here: https://www.breakthrought1d.org/for-the-media/press-releases/breakthrough-t1d-celebrates-fda-approval-of-first-dual-glucose-ketone-sensing-technology/
