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Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.
Australia's creatives versus AI companies: the copyright fight heading to Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to address artificial intelligence this week as Australian artists demand their work stops being used to train AI without permission or pay.
The Software Engineer Who Codes on His Commute to Stay Sharp in the Age of AI
AI tools are writing more code at more companies. Some engineers are quietly going back to basics to make sure they still can.
A Scottish AI megasite promised green energy. The reality looks very different.
An £8.2 billion AI data centre complex in rural Scotland overstated its renewable energy commitments. Finding that out required journalists to leave their desks and travel there.
Christopher Nolan thinks AI panic is overblown, but he is still watching closely
The director of Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight says big-budget, location-shot filmmaking will outlast the AI wave. Not everyone in Hollywood agrees.
AI doctors, factory robots, and drones on the Great Wall: how China embraced artificial intelligence
While much of the West debates AI cautiously, China has woven it into daily life at speed, from millions of patients chatting with virtual doctors to state surveillance tools that watch city streets.
A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.
Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.
An Australian song hit No 1 on radio. Now people are asking if AI made it.
Josh Fawaz's cover of 'Like a Prayer' climbed to the top of Australia's national airplay chart. Music experts say it sounds like generative AI produced it, not a human.
Twelve Bronx Nurses Laid Off After Hospital Replaces Them With AI Software
Montefiore Medical Center cut a dozen nurses whose job was reviewing patient insurance claims, handing that work to an automated system. Their union says the move broke a contract won through a recent strike.
OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving, and He's Not the First This Week
A string of departures from OpenAI's safety operation is raising questions about how the company will manage risk as it ships AI models faster than ever.
Weekend Science: A Quantum Computer Just Helped Invent New Drug Candidates
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark ran their AI model on a printer-sized quantum computer and produced better peptide candidates than a standard machine, with the sharpest gains where medical training data was thin.
Sunrun wants to turn your living room into a tiny AI data centre
The solar company is paying homeowners to host small computing units that sell AI processing power to big tech firms. Here is what that actually means for you.
Instagram Won't Let You Filter Out AI Posts, and Its Own AI Tool Is Already Raising Alarm Bells
Instagram's boss says you can know when a post is AI-generated, but you can't hide those posts from your feed. Meanwhile, Meta's Muse Spark image tool lets users drop strangers into AI creations just by tagging them.
EU Tells Meta: Kill Infinite Scroll and Autoplay or Face Billion-Dollar Fines
European regulators say Facebook and Instagram were designed to keep you stuck, and they want it stopped.
Meta Pulls AI Image Feature That Used Your Instagram Photos Without Asking
Meta launched a tool letting anyone generate AI pictures by tagging public Instagram accounts. After a wave of criticism over abuse risks, it pulled the feature within days.
Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Car Quietly Built the AI Chip Inside Every iPhone
A cancelled car project turns out to be the origin story of Apple's most important piece of AI hardware.
Lorde told a festival crowd to skip the AI glasses. Then a Meta ambassador walked on stage.
At a Madrid music festival sponsored by Ray-Ban, the pop star called AI smartglasses 'fucked up' and urged fans not to buy them. Moments later, Blackpink's Jennie, a paid Ray-Ban Meta ambassador, took the stage.
Waze Adds Google Gemini AI So You Can Say 'Find Me a Cheap Gas Station' and Actually Get One
Four new features are rolling out to Waze, two of them powered by Google's Gemini AI. Here is what changes for your daily drive.
Half the Fortune 500 Now Builds on Open AI Models. Here Is What That Means for You
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open-source AI is growing fast, and the companies adopting it aren't just the tech giants you might expect.
SK Hynix just pulled off the biggest US stock debut by a foreign company, ever
The South Korean memory chip maker raised $26.5 billion on the Nasdaq, riding demand for the chips that make AI work. Here is what that means, and why Washington is already calling.
Meta quietly killed an Instagram AI feature after users pushed back
The company said the tool was meant to give creators control. Users disagreed, and Meta pulled it.