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Policy

AI Data Centres Are Thirsty. But How Thirsty, Exactly?

Protests are spreading across the American Southwest over water use at AI data centres. The real numbers are murky, and tech companies are not making it easier to find them.

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Policy

Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?

A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.

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AI Business

Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing

The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.

3 min read
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AI Business

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.

3 min read
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AI Business

Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are

Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.

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AI Business

Microsoft soars, Meta sinks: AI spending is splitting Big Tech in two

Both companies are pouring billions into artificial intelligence. One set of investors cheered. The other hit sell.

3 min read
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Policy

Australia's AI Plan Is Bold. The Tech Giants It Must Deal With Are Bigger Than Most Governments

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to get ahead of artificial intelligence. The companies he will need to negotiate with have revenues larger than many national economies.

3 min read
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Policy

Albanese to call AI a turning point as big as renewable energy, but artists get no copyright answers

Australia's prime minister will address AI policy in a Sydney speech this week, comparing the technology's rise to the renewable energy shift. Creative industries hoping for copyright protection news will have to keep waiting.

3 min read
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Policy

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.

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