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The Data Centre Dilemma: How AI's Hunger for Power Is Reshaping British Towns
The UK government wants three times as many data centres. In Slough, locals are already living next to metal-clad giants that drink water and burn electricity at a scale that rivals whole neighbourhoods.
Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.
AI Founders Are Pledging Their Fortunes to Charity. Does It Actually Help?
A new wave of AI billionaires is promising to give away the wealth they make from the technology reshaping the world. Critics ask whether that generosity is a fix or just a fig leaf.
Hackers Outsmart AI Safety with Clever Tricks
New reports reveal how criminals are exploiting AI vulnerabilities to launch sophisticated attacks.
Banks Are Handing Their AI Future to a Handful of Tech Giants, Moody's Warns
The credit rating agency says the finance industry's rush to adopt AI is creating dangerous dependence on a small group of Silicon Valley companies, with outages and price hikes among the main risks.
Google's AI empire is growing. The researchers who built it keep leaving.
Jeff Dean exits after 27 years. Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day leadership. Every author of the 2017 paper that started the generative AI era has now left Google. Here is what is actually happening inside the world's most powerful AI company.
SoftBank's Intel bet pays off big, but OpenAI goes quiet on the books
The Japanese investment giant posted a $2.2 billion profit for the June quarter, well above forecasts. A huge gain on Intel shares did the heavy lifting. OpenAI, which SoftBank has pumped $55 billion into, added nothing this time.
A US Lawmaker Wants Communities to Have the Right to Reject AI Data Centers
Representative Ro Khanna is pushing a 'Data Center Bill of Rights' that would let neighborhoods block new facilities over electricity costs, water use and proximity to homes.
Asian Tech Stocks Slide as SK Hynix Drops Nearly 10% on AI Spending Fears
A sharp sell-off swept through Asian chip and tech stocks on Thursday, but analysts say the underlying AI investment story has not changed.
Amazon's Texas Data Center Could Become America's Biggest Climate Polluter
A planned natural gas power plant in Pecos County is permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than any other single power plant in the United States.
OpenAI Buys Presentation Startup NextSlide
The small AI tool that turned rough notes into polished slides is now inside ChatGPT's walls. Here is what we know about the deal.
Amazon's New Texas Power Plant Could Emit More CO2 Than Any Coal Plant in America
A gas plant built to power Amazon's West Texas data center has a pollution permit larger than any coal facility in the US. The company says its climate commitment stands, but its own emissions have risen for years.
Xi Jinping's minority crackdown has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with what AI companies ignore at their peril
China's new 'ethnic unity' law forces 125 million minority citizens to abandon their languages and cultures. For AI firms doing business there, the political climate just got harder to ignore.
How to Remove Google's Gemini AI From Docs and Gmail
Google is rolling out a large Gemini bar inside Google Docs that many users never asked for. Here is how to hide it, or remove AI features from Docs and Gmail entirely.
AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.
UK Children Are Reporting Explicit Deepfakes of Themselves at Record Rates
A service that helps young people remove intimate images from the internet says digitally faked content, including AI-generated nudity, is rising sharply. Experts warn the tools making it possible are only getting easier to find.
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Critical Software Flaws
U.S. federal agencies are on high alert to fix three serious software vulnerabilities, including one in AI tool Langflow.
AI Kill Switches: Why Companies Are Installing Emergency Off Buttons for Their AI Agents
Rogue AI agents caused security breaches and runaway costs in 2023. Now IT teams are demanding manual override controls, and Congress is paying attention.
Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos
A conversation with Nomagic's North America chief reveals how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that run our online shopping.
Apple's AI Shortcut: How a 'Draft and Check' Trick Makes Reasoning Models Twice as Fast
Apple ML Research has built a smarter way to speed up AI thinking, one that checks meaning instead of counting exact words. It could cut the cost of running powerful AI in half.
Rippling Was Burning Millions on AI. So It Built a Tool to Stop It.
The HR software company discovered one engineer was spending $50,000 a month on AI tokens. Its new AI Spend Console is designed to make sure that never happens to you.