China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
…The report also says Chinese state media is “openly campaigning against US AI data centers.” As evidence it cites stories and videos about the anti-data-center trend and rising energy costs…
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New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
…developers and AI companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google, gathered at the White House to sign a nonbinding agreement intended to make data centers pay “the full cost of their energy…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…If your government tends to be a little too authoritarian, it could be used for bad things.” LeCun has grappled with issues related to AI safety and security before. He notes that…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…come with real costs to privacy and anonymity. Once commodified, biometric data becomes just another thing to be bought, sold, or used by third parties, including the government. Parallel to the rise…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…Last year, over 1,000 Amazon employees anonymously signed an open letter warning of harms from the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development.” Microsoft employees have…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…Cost It Billions A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government Can AI Kill…
Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…The only industry workers who could benefit from AI are streamers. Spencer Agnew, director of programming for Smosh Games, thinks cost increases driven by the RAM shortage could mean that gamers unable…
Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
…frontier-AI competitor inside a larger holding company.” If xAI continues to develop frontier AI models, the authors say, it should be required to publish a public safety and governance plan. SpaceX…
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
…AI regulation. The New York Times initially reported that there is an executive order being considered, just at that stage right now, that would create a group of tech executives and government…
Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
…He adds that the proliferation of AI tools—this is the first World Cup in the generative-AI era—could lead to a cat-and-mouse game between tech-savvy users and…