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How Pokémon Go players may have unknowingly helped train military AI
Remember running around town chasing that rare Pokémon? Turns out that scans you uploaded through Pokémon Go could help military drones navigate war zones.
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Amazon says its datacenters used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year - and that's less than rivals
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year – but the company says that's less than any of its competitors use to run their facilities and a fraction of the water Americans use on lawns and gardens.
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AI could soon outpace human decision-making in war, Ukraine warns
Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in coming years as artificial intelligence is integrated into weapons networks and accelerates decision-making on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian military official said.
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In grim scenario, sluggish Europe risks being left behind by AI revolution
European leaders like talking about tech sovereignty but are reticent to walk the walk. If the EU doesn’t step up its efforts to invest in AI, it will be left behind as an economic backwater, a group of policy thinkers has warned in a new imaginative report. Critics see fearmongering.
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German court rules Google can be held liable for false AI Overview claims
Google can be directly held liable for false claims in AI Overviews because they aren’t search results, but rather content that Google creates. Therefore, AI-generated summaries aren’t protected as traditional search results.
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1 in 4 Dutch workers fear AI job losses, especially in these sectors
Daily use of artificial intelligence (AI) is now the norm rather than the exception in the Netherlands. Only 8% of Dutch workers say they have never used AI in the workplace.
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OpenAI says Chinese groups used ChatGPT for Trump propaganda cartoons in US policy debates
Chinese propagandists have been trying to use OpenAI's flagship chat to gin up opposition to Donald Trump's tariffs and intervene in American debates over data centers and AI, OpenAI said in a report published on Wednesday.
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Dell’s AI guy: AI isn’t a lifeform, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful
Johann Strauss, who serves as the Field CTO in the global AI Solutions Organization for Dell Technologies, speaks about AI with a mix of skepticism and practicality. He’s not impressed by the mystique around it, and he has little patience for the idea that AI is some kind of breakthrough intelligence descending from the sky.
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This engineer warned Musk’s AI about Grok’s safety risks. Now he’s fired
A former engineer at xAI has filed a lawsuit in California, alleging that he was illegally fired. The former employee of Elon Musk’s AI company said he had raised safety concerns about Grok's development, but was sacked just days before he was supposed to present the flaws to the company’s leadership.
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Fable 5 publicity shines light on Anthropic’s aggressive terms of use
While the world keeps talking about the power of Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5, some observers are urging consumers to pay attention to the company’s consumer terms, claiming the firm has the right to send lawyers after users and even make them pay for the legal process. The truth is a little more complicated, though.
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Microsoft is limiting employee use of Anthropic’s Claude AI over concerns about how it stores company data
Microsoft is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
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Prince William and Salesforce want to use data and AI to combat homelessness
Prince William has announced a new initiative that will explore whether AI and data analytics can help identify people at risk of homelessness before they reach crisis point.
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World’s leading mathematicians ridicule AI hype in high-IQ declaration
Over 150 leading mathematicians from all around the world have called for the discipline to resist beating the drum for AI developers and conduct proper research. Indeed, actual professors have serious doubts about the math abilities of various AI systems.
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Democrats are far more worried than Republicans that AI will take jobs, new poll finds
Half of Americans fear that the rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that also showed widespread angst at how widely the technology is being adopted.
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OpenAI could build the biggest data center you’ve ever seen in Ohio
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center campus in Ohio. The deal could also include financial backing from Nvidia, according to The Information.
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New York demands advertisers use “synthetic performer” label or else
New York advertisers are now legally obligated to label AI actors featured in commercials.
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Companies using Fable 5 beware: it’s collecting your data, and there are no exceptions
Every other Claude model available through the API, including Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5, can operate under Zero Data Retention agreements. Fable 5 cannot, and the alarm bells are ringing.
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Hungary uses AI to investigate €160 billion in spending under Orbán
The country’s anti-corruption watchdog says it’s using artificial intelligence to help trace more than €160 billion of public spending. The hunch is that during the 16 years of government led by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the money could have been spent improperly through grants, contracts, or governmental subsidies.
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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 – the Mythos AI model once deemed too risky for public use
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday – its first publicly available Mythos-class AI model after restricting access for months over major cybersecurity and safety risks.
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Tired of AI at work? Seek religious exemption
A new, unexpected angle has emerged amid the chaos of mass AI adoption: a software engineer securing a free pass to avoid using AI in her job.
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