Raleigh Set a High Bar for Its AI Assistant One of Raleigh’s biggest concerns was language access.
“Clean data is key when it comes to AI,” Bosley said.
That led residents to suggest a distinctly Raleigh alternative: Don’t make the AI look human at all.
Residents Want AI To Make Government Easier That reluctance didn’t translate into blanket opposition to AI.
And that may be Raleigh’s biggest takeaway from Daisy: The question isn’t simply whether a city should use AI.
Sep 23, 2026 · via statetechmagazine.com
Kathy Hochul’s Next Stop: Fast Buses, Better Service plan, which aims to make bus service faster, more accessible and more comfortable, in part by installing hundreds of bus shelters.
Dive Insight: The 2026 New York City Heat-Related Mortality Report shows that approximately 500 residents die from heat-related causes each summer.
To mitigate extreme heat impacts on disadvantaged and heat-vulnerable communities, the state of New York’s Extreme Heat Action Plan calls for identifying priority corridors for shading, adding plants to formerly paved medians, building shade structures and adding cooling enhancements to bus shelters.
Green roof bus stops were first popularized in the Netherlands and have been making their way across Europe, Japan, Singapore and Canada.
Boston has installed green roofs on 30 bus shelters planted with drought-resistant plantings to provide shade, improve air quality, increase stormwater retention and add new green space along its 28 bus route.
Sep 23, 2026 · via smartcitiesdive.com
Smart city technologies could generate more than $5.8 billion in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia invests heavily in infrastructure and urban development, according to a new report by real estate firm JLL.
The report, titled “Smart cities, smart investments?
Smart construction accounts for more than $3.8 billion of the projected value, making it the largest opportunity.
Greater productivity, commercial activity, development, health and sustainability could add to the wider economic impact of smart technology.
The report comes as smart technologies become increasingly prevalent across construction and urban infrastructure worldwide.
Sep 23, 2026 · via fastcompanyme.com
Climate denial avoids action by rejecting the necessity of transition, while climate doom shuts them down by treating transformation as an impossible outcome.
The climate transition will depend on this underappreciated, undervalued middle, through decades of decisions about repair, adaptations, and restorations.
The climate transition cannot depend on a clear before scenario and a clear after scenario, but will be composed of decades of parallel work streams.
The Ordinary Work Much of the climate transition will take place within the physical world that already exists.
The climate transition depends on an understanding of how individual decisions interact, reinforce one another, and eventually produce systemic change.
Sep 23, 2026 · via archdaily.com
The report, “Smart cities, smart investments?
These transform smart city technology from an operational upgrade to functioning infrastructure.
Smart city investment is critical to realizing the ambitious goals of Saudi Vision 2030, and the analysis identifies a unique portfolio of technologies poised to support the capital's unprecedented development.
When applied to the specific challenges in each city, smart city technologies go beyond being a tactical, limited form of digitization and offer a means of stimulating economic growth and productivity gains at scale.
For city leaders, this means moving smart city budgets from IT procurement to core economic policy, backed by clear business cases and rigorous performance benchmarking.
Sep 23, 2026 · via tradingview.com
Qatar is building the smart city of tomorrow: one that thinks, learns and one that quietly solves problems before we even notice them.
We take a ride on Mowasalat’s bright teal robotaxis and learn about the firm’s wider strategy for public transportation.
At the Autonomous e-Mobility Forum, we meet the pioneers shaping the future of transport.
We also uncover how Qatar is harnessing technology to create smarter, safer and more connected cities for future generations.
Sep 23, 2026 · via euronews.com
New figures from Berg Insight show that the installed base of individually controlled smart street lights reached 38.5 million units worldwide at the end of 2025.
Europe leads smart street lighting adoption Europe accounted for 36 percent of the worldwide installed base in 2025, making it the largest regional market.
Those figures illustrate how smart street lighting has already moved beyond isolated smart-city pilots.
In connected street lighting, the control unit is increasingly being deployed as part of the underlying lighting upgrade itself.
Berg Insight identifies more than 100 vendors in the smart street lighting market, while only a small number have surpassed one million deployed lighting control units.
Sep 23, 2026 · via iotbusinessnews.com
Dive Brief: Seven cities in California could see taller residential buildings if Gov.
Gavin Newsom signs a downtown density bill passed by the state legislature in August.
Newsom brought legal action against several localities in July for allegedly failing to meet state housing planning measures.
A California Senate Appropriations Committee analysis noted that AB 2074 would impose new and unknown costs on the seven impacted cities that are not “state-reimbursable.”
If Newsom approves AB 2074, it would trigger a housing construction loan and financing study by the California Housing Finance Agency.
Sep 22, 2026 · via smartcitiesdive.com
Dive Insight: California is home to 296 data centers, the third highest number in the U.S., according to Data Center Map.
“With these laws, we are ensuring that Californians remain in the driver’s seat — and that those profiting from data centers aren’t doing so at our expense.”
SB 886 and SB 887: Require data centers to pay all infrastructure upgrade and generation costs, bear a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs, and undergo environmental review.
“These are some of the nation’s strongest data center ratepayer protections — stopping Big Tech from sticking California families with the bill for their data centers,” Padilla said in a statement.
AB 1577: Requires monthly reporting of data centers’ energy consumption and efficiency metrics to the California Energy Commission and estimated energy usage to local agencies as part of permitting.
Sep 22, 2026 · via utilitydive.com
Representatives all said existing rules that prohibit the use of recording devices within these facilities also apply to smart glasses.
We have had no issues with smart glasses in city recreation facilities.”
Policies CBC News asked 12 municipalities whether they’re considering a ban on smart glasses in public facilities.
Further refinements to our practices surrounding all filming tools, including smart glasses, will take place as we learn more.
Winnipeg: Recording devices are not permitted in washrooms, change rooms and locker rooms at City of Winnipeg facilities.
Sep 20, 2026 · via cbc.ca
The Kaliningrad Region is preparing to host its first International Port Cities Forum on 1–2 October 2026.
The announcement, published on 20 September by the Kaliningrad regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry, gives the forum a clear economic focus: how port cities can combine transport infrastructure, industrial development, urban planning and innovation.
The Russian Transport Ministry had previously confirmed the dates and described the meeting as a platform for discussing maritime logistics, transport, energy, environmental issues, professional training and financial support.
For Kaliningrad, a region with a long maritime history and a large coastal tourism sector, the model links business activity with questions of urban development and regional identity.
The official forum website lists port infrastructure, logistics, transport corridors and the sustainable development of port cities among the central themes.
Sep 20, 2026 · via baltic-review.com
The meeting was attended by Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation, SSP Traffic, RTO Kashmir, Chief Engineer KPDCL and Executive Engineers of R&B, besides other officers concerned.
He also directed SSCL for the completion of 72 bus stops under Module-A by October 31.
The Divisional Commissioner fixed fresh timelines for the departments concerned to achieve tangible progress.
He directed SSCL and SSP Traffic to implement stop-line interventions at identified junctions within 10 days.
He further directed Commissioner SSCL to hand over the control room to the traffic police for augmenting the deployment of traffic personnel to monitor the traffic system.
Sep 19, 2026 · via tribuneindia.com
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new study by a Harvard astrophysicist estimates there may not be enough water to support permanent settlement on the moon.
The study evaluated how long lunar water resources could sustain human populations on the moon.
According to the research, the size of a potential lunar city significantly affects how long its water supply will last.
The astrophysicist determined that a city of 1 million people would deplete the moon’s water supply in less than two and a half years.
However, the study calculated that a smaller city of about 100,000 people would have enough water to last for 1,000 years.
Sep 19, 2026 · via wftv.com
He argued that the value of physical AI must be rooted in the field, refined through continuous iteration in real-world scenarios.
The core team brings over a decade of R&D experience, having contributed to the development of more than 150 types of unmanned vehicles.
Looking ahead, Zelos plans to collaborate with various automakers via a V2X model to build ecosystem vehicles by the end of 2025.
On the technical front, Zelos has constructed a "physical AI brain" comprising three modules: the vehicle-side VIA algorithm, the cloud-side VI model, and Safety AI.
"Let those who understand cars build vehicles, and let those who understand L4 provide the safety net," he said.
Sep 19, 2026 · via autonews.gasgoo.com
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Sep 19, 2026 · via springerprofessional.de
I’ve opened restaurants all over the country, and I have never opened one this busy from day one.
But after 27 restaurants, I know something about what makes a city feel alive.
My restaurant in Bend does about $8.5 million a year in a city of roughly 100,000 people.
Then come to The Malarkey on a Friday or Saturday night and feel the energy in that room.
Brian Malarkey is a Food Network celebrity chef, restaurateur, and two-time Top Chef finalist.
Sep 19, 2026 · via fortune.com
Enter the Left’s newest doomsday prophecy: End Times Fascism.
As is standard for contemporary soothsayers, End Times Fascism reaches for a Historical Bad Guy to prove the point.
End Times Fascism is the spiritual sequel to The Shock Doctrine, but the argument is expansive: today’s oligarchs, the authors write, “aren’t content to just build the arks.
End Times Fascism also awkwardly yada-yada’s over regimes that don’t quite fit in the narrative of tech CEOs, ethno-nationalists, and MAGA.
End Times Fascism was published in the same week as the nationwide freakout about the Rise of the Robots in the wake of an Anthropic employee’s tweetstorm about how AI could kill us all “by the end of the decade.”
Sep 18, 2026 · via unherd.com
The TALQ Consortium, a global standardisation body for smart city interoperability, has partnered with CICAT, the lighting cluster of Catalonia, to advance open and interoperable outdoor lighting systems in Spain and internationally.
The event takes place on 2 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, the day before the Smart City Expo World Congress opens in the same city.
“This year it feels to us as if all pieces of a large puzzle are falling into place,” says Simon Dunkley, secretary general of the TALQ Consortium.
Founded in 2012, the TALQ Consortium has established a globally accepted standard for management software interfaces to control and monitor heterogeneous smart city applications.
LUCI (Lighting Urban Community International) was created in 2002 and is based in Lyon, France.
Sep 18, 2026 · via traffictechnologytoday.com
U.S. public transit agencies operate over 65,000 heavy-duty transit buses, according to the report.
Nearly two-thirds are standard 40-foot buses and the rest are articulated buses, commuter buses used in public transit, double-decker buses and other transit buses 30 feet or longer that are operated by public transit agencies.
The report also calculated the indirect broader economic impact of the transit bus industry, with wage-funded household spending equaling about 13,500 jobs.
The majority of transit buses delivered to buyers in 2025 came from Gillig and New Flyer, according to the report.
About 21% of the national transit bus fleet, or some 13,700 transit buses, are more than 12 years old.
Sep 18, 2026 · via smartcitiesdive.com
The legislation authorizes 133 new feasibility studies for locally proposed water resources infrastructure projects and 14 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-vetted projects that are ready for congressional authorization.
It also includes policy changes to speed up water infrastructure projects by giving local stakeholders more say in feasibility studies and helping them access Army Corps resources to get projects started.
WRDA will strengthen flood control and infrastructure projects, according to a news release from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Dive Insight: Congress has authorized Army Corps locally generated water resources infrastructure projects through bipartisan WRDAs every two years since 2014.
“WRDA 2026 makes significant improvements across the country to our inland waterways, ports and harbors, flood protection, and other critical water infrastructure,” said Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo.
Sep 18, 2026 · via smartcitiesdive.com