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Musk’s Colossus 2 data center is suffocating Black communities

The facility will pump tons of cancer-causing gases every year.
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German consortium releases Soofi S, the top-ranked open-source AI model


Fastmail launches EU-hosted email service with Amsterdam data center

Businesses and organizations are seeking greater certainty about where their data is stored.
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Doctor Claude? Anthropic’s chatbot fakes medical credentials


Majority of Americans want the government to own half of AI companies

Americans favor aggressive economic interventions when it comes to regulating AI.
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OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed speaker launch follows Apple theft claims

The speaker is designed by the former Apple design chief.
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New York halts construction of big data centers, but people aren’t impressed


Palantir’s Alex Karp says gains from the AI revolution won’t be equally distributed


Grok slurping secrets from private repos, xAI scrambles to fix it

Fix only controls what xAI keeps, not what is transmitted.
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Learn to think again: University of Chicago blocks AI use entirely for first-year law students

University of Chicago law students will have to learn to think for themselves
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Canadian regulator warns banks that Anthropic's Claude Mythos compresses cyber defense window

Attack methods can emerge as soon as new vulnerabilities are identified.
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ChatGPT advice leaves hikers stranded in the mountains

A rescue mission was launched after the chatbot got it horribly wrong.
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A dozen New York nurses replaced by AI tied to Palantir partner

The contractor was also at the center of a $900,000 data breach class action.
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Those LinkedIn thought leadership posts? Probably AI-generated


Pennsylvania state senator denies profiting off data center deal as he pushes pro-big tech bill

The real estate agent turned senator promises he didn’t make any money off the data center deal.
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AI camera triggers $1,200 fine for phone resting face down on driver’s lap

The truth is more nuanced, but exposes bigger questions around police use of AI
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OpenAI, Google researchers warn AI will transform economy faster than the Industrial Revolution


White House wants tech giants and utilities to promise AI growth won't spike your power bill

However, Donald Trump's administration still pushes to accelerate the expansion of AI infrastructure.
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The Odyssey is almost here, and Christopher Nolan has words about AI slop

The famous director insists that the younger generation is “utterly rejecting” AI
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Meta's AI detector missed 55% of its own cropped AI images, Reuters finds