AI data centers have added roughly $29 to $30 billion in costs to the U.S. electric grid over four recent capacity auctions, representing about 46 percent of total capacity charges, according to Monit…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, dri…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for exotic flowers that do not exist on platforms like Etsy, eBay, and Amazon, according to reports. The fake listings often feature impossible col…
A Gallup-Stop Scams Alliance survey found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with 15.1 million Americans losing approximately $68 billion to fraud. Voice cloning, deepfake …
AI-powered surveillance systems from companies like Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Veritone are being deployed in U.S. police departments, enabling real-time facial recognition, automated license plate…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter network, spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots from Engineered Arts, integrating them with ChatGPT to serve as teaching assistants for struggling students. Cri…
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report tha…
American Express now lets cardmembers redeem Membership Rewards points directly in Apple Pay on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, offering a 0.7-cent-per-point rate at checkout with no app-switching. The feature …
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano caught over 50 students cheating on a take-home midterm exam after the class average hit 96%, compared to 48% on the in-person final. Serrano offer…
The Trump administration has reportedly approached SpaceX about donating company stock to Trump Accounts, a new children's savings program, but current Treasury guidelines prohibit stock donations. Ov…
Tesla is testing a production Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals on public roads in Austin and the Bay Area, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat. The vehicle relies solely on cameras an…
Google has made its personalized image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana, free for all eligible US users, removing the previous paywall. The feature pulls context from users' Gmail, Google Ph…
Sony's PlayStation 6 could retail for $1,000 due to a $960 bill of materials, driven by surging DDR5 and LPDDR5X RAM prices as AI infrastructure consumes global memory supply. Sony faces a choice betw…
Uber burned through its annual AI budget in four months, prompting usage caps and a shift to per-token billing for coding assistants like GitHub Copilot. Developer Julius Brussee created 'caveman,' a …
A global SAP Emarsys survey of over 10,000 consumers found that 66% have switched from a previously loyal brand due to cost, with true brand loyalty dropping to 29% in 2025. AI shopping tools are acce…
A federal lawsuit filed June 25 in California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology of colluding to fix DRAM prices, causing a 700% price surge since 2022. The complaint alleges the compani…
MIT-affiliated researchers Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell demonstrated that attackers can trick frontier large language models into providing dangerous instructions, such as cocain…
Cook County Sheriff's investigators discovered $1.3 million in stolen data center supplies in two trailers at a Chicago truck yard, tracing the thefts to Alabama and Florida. Organized cargo theft rin…