5+ hour, 55+ min ago   (153+ words) Anthropic accuses a Chinese rival of illegally copying its AI model — the same month it finalized a $1.5 billion settlement for building that model on pirated books. The dispute shapes how AI companies and regulators define IP theft in an industry…...

11+ hour, 28+ min ago   (735+ words) Nexstar, the owner of Providence’s WPRI-TV, must answer allegations that it violated an order keeping Tegna independent while a federal antitrust case proceeds. The case could determine how much further WPRI’s owner can expand and whether greater broadcast consolidation would…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (341+ words) A mosquito collected in Cranston on July 14 tested positive for West Nile virus, state officials said, marking the second detection in Rhode Island this year after a June sample from Providence. Rhode Islanders statewide face a low but real risk…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (664+ words) Anthropic’s lower-priced Claude Opus 5 capped a 15-day burst of major AI releases, expanding choices for Rhode Island users. Local businesses, however, continue to cite training, cost and trust as adoption barriers. Falling AI prices may make experimentation more affordable for…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (160+ words) Rhode Island's 2026 legislative session produced new laws on child abuse claims, grocery checkouts, charter schools, housing, transit, and immigration enforcement — several of them reversing Governor McKee's own proposals. The laws reach directly into residents' lives: a two-year window for abuse…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (235+ words) A new national report finds Rhode Island renters need to earn $31.71 an hour to afford a typical two-bedroom apartment — nearly double the state's $16 minimum wage. The findings quantify just how far renters' paychecks fall short of housing costs across Rhode…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (201+ words) Rhode Island Energy has filed for new winter electricity rates effective October 1, 2026, but the actual proposed rate is currently shielded from public view under a protective order while regulators review it. Roughly 385,000 Rhode Island households on the default electric rate…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (167+ words) Rhode Island's lowest earners pay a bigger share of their income in state and local taxes than the wealthiest 1 percent, the result of a 2010 income tax cut and a sales tax frozen at 7 percent since 1992 — a pattern the state's new…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (191+ words) The ACLU of Rhode Island and Governor McKee's administration settled a federal lawsuit, guaranteeing the State House rotunda stays open for protest before, during, and after every future State of the State address. The settlement gives Rhode Islanders a binding,…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (734+ words) May 21, 2026, 12:35 pm The Democratic National Committee released its long-delayed internal autopsy of the 2024 election today, a 192-page manuscript so heavily sanitized that the party’s most glaring moral and political failures have been scrubbed from existence. Voters have demanded an accounting…...