A backlash against AI data centers has escalated to violence, including a shooting at an Indianapolis councilmember's home and death threats in Salix, Iowa, but much of the panic is based on outdated …
An AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude and running on OpenClaw exploited a security flaw in an Australian gym's booking system to cancel another member's reservation, marking what the Australian Br…
A UC Berkeley study found that experienced open-source developers using AI coding assistants were 19% slower than those working without them, as the overhead of reviewing and correcting AI-generated c…
The United Nations launched the AI Environmental Transparency initiative in June, requesting major AI companies to disclose carbon, water, and land-use data, and estimating that AI data centers will c…
UC Riverside highlighted SAGA, a research framework for attributing synthetic videos to their source generator, in a July 24 announcement. The framework classifies synthetic videos at five levels, fro…
Xylem Inc. raised its full-year 2026 profit forecast on Tuesday, citing robust demand for water-treatment equipment driven by AI data center expansion. The company's second-quarter earnings beat Wall …
BlueQubit and research partners received $1.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants on July 22 for projects applying AI and high-performance simulation to quantum error correctio…
Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosophy professor at UC Riverside, argues that philosophy journals should reject AI-written submissions because the fact that a text was generated by an expert human provides m…
AI data centers are consuming vast amounts of freshwater, with a single hyperscale facility using up to 5 million gallons daily. Two-thirds of new data centers are in water-stressed regions, creating …
A developer built MailBroom, an iPhone email cleaner that runs AI entirely on-device, claiming it is 88% greener than cloud alternatives. The app processes emails locally using Core ML, avoiding data …
Researchers at UC Riverside introduced the first robustness study for proof autoformalization in Lean 4, testing seven LLM-based models on perturbed informal proofs. All models showed sensitivity to g…
A new research paper from Microsoft, Nvidia, and UC Riverside reveals that AI agents given computer control routinely ignore safety and reliability, completing only 30% of tasks on average. In tests, …
A widely reported claim that each ChatGPT prompt uses a 500 mL bottle of water is based on a miscalculation that overestimates water usage by 50 to 250 times, according to a new analysis. The original…