Catch up on big investments and startups making waves in their communities in this week's The National Beat newsletter.

It looks like Google just bought another swath of KC acreage where officials last year approved a $100 billion data center campus.

In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex ...

Researchers have identified multiple state-level attacks using DarkSword, a chain of vulnerabilities, to infect unpatches iPhones.

Initiative known internally as Transformer aims to realize Bezos’s vision of a personalized, voice-driven computing assistant ...

With the new Chrome versions—146.0.7680.153/154 for Windows and macOS and 146.0.7680.153 for Linux—the developers have fixed ...

Billy Porter has been hitting the media circuit this week to promote his new children’s book, Songbird In The Light. The ...

Carrie Prejean Boller is finally turning on Tr*mp. But we haven't forgotten her problematic past ...

Google adds 24-hour sideloading delay amid 17 malware families in 4 months, reducing scam-driven installs and device ...

We asked readers of LGBTQ Nation to tell us their stories of “conversion” to self-acceptance as part of March 2026 Issue. Here are some of the responses we got. Quite a few readers wrote to LGBTQ ...

Police sued him over a satirical album that included a sexist and transphobic song called "Lick 'em Low Lisa." ...

The flexible scheduling approach involves tackling job duties in short, productive bursts instead of a single nine-to-five ...