The Bill Came Due For two years, the story was simple: AI was coming for your job. A digital worker never sleeps, never takes vacation, and costs a fraction of a salary. Executives repeated it. Analysts modeled it. Workers braced for it. Then, in May 2026, Microsoft quietly began canceling most of its internal Claude...
STROUDSBURG, PA — In mid-November 2025, a controversy erupted when Grok, the AI assistant on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), claimed the platform had disabled automatic translation of Hebrew posts to prevent the spread of “inflammatory content.” The AI stated that Hebrew translations were “amplifying calls for violence” through mistranslations, and that X had...
When “Free” Technology Promises Safety, Who’s Really Watching Our Most Vulnerable Residents? SCRANTON — Lackawanna County Commissioners unanimously approved the SilverShield anti-scam program with enthusiastic praise. But amid the celebration of protecting seniors from the $4.8 billion elder fraud epidemic, no one asked the most critical question: What exactly is SilverShield Incorporated doing with the...
The Pocono Mountains region, long celebrated for its natural beauty, waterfalls, and reputation as the “Honeymoon Capital of the World,” is facing a dramatic transformation. A wave of massive data center proposals is sweeping through Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Carbon, Lackawanna, and Luzerne counties. But exactly how many data centers are we talking about? Let’s try...
HARRISBURG — A long-dormant nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island is one step closer to returning to service after the U.S. Department of Energy approved a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy. The funding aims to restart the 835-megawatt unit at the Crane Clean Energy Center, located on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, Dauphin...