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Two Amazon employees publicly called on Seattle officials Wednesday to regulate data center development, citing environmental, economic, and safety threats from unchecked AI infrastructure expansion. Senior software engi…
Amazon-owned smart doorbell company Ring faces a class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally collected and stored facial recognition data from visitors without their consent. The lawsuit claims Ring's cameras captured bio…
SpaceX’s IPO filing now lists water access as a critical constraint on AI data center expansion, warning that “significant water resources may be required for cooling large-scale data center operations.” A typical data c…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing agencies including the Pentagon and CISA to strengthen cyber defenses using AI tools within 30 days. The order allows AI developers to voluntarily submit their m…
Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary said he is "not walking away" from his proposed AI data center in Utah after a state lawmaker demanded the project be reduced by 75%. Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams called for the …
CNN filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York federal court, alleging the AI company unlawfully crawled, scraped, and reproduced "verbatim" portions of CNN articles, including …
JPMorgan, Meta, and KPMG have built internal dashboards to monitor employee use of generative AI tools, tracking usage at team and individual levels. Some firms are collecting interaction data that could be used to train…
A Times of India blog post claims the author's personal productivity increased "nearly 10X" after adopting Generative AI. The post identifies six ways AI benefits flow through organizations, including higher output per w…
Shopify expanded its share buyback program as activist investors intensify scrutiny of the company’s artificial intelligence policies. The e-commerce platform’s stock has fallen nearly 27 percent since the start of the y…
Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also involved in the deal, as the Claude maker weighs a public debut as soon as October. The company, value…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order asking AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to submit advanced models for government vetting, but the order explicitly states it does not create mandatory licensing or p…
California AI safety advocates' moderate SB 1047 bill, which required safety protocols and audits for large AI models, was vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2024 after heavy opposition from frontier AI companies. The au…
A national survey of nearly 4,000 residents across 49 states reveals that AI data centers are being constructed with little to no community input, sparking widespread concerns over secrecy and lack of transparency. Resid…
Andhra Pradesh Minister for Education, IT and Electronics Nara Lokesh met with Sberbank Senior Vice President Albert Yefimov in Moscow to discuss technology collaboration and investment. The talks covered potential expan…
AI tools offer potential productivity gains for agriculture but risk excluding smallholder farmers, who account for approximately 80% of farmers in developing countries. Maize yields in the US exceed 10 tons per hectare,…
A UK Member of Parliament has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over non-consensual sexual images generated by its Grok chatbot. The case is expected to become a landmark test under UK law, determining whether AI c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered to buy back an investor's shares after being pressed on the gap between the company's $13 billion in annual revenue and its $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments. Altman deflected the …
A federal judge in Milwaukee on Wednesday postponed the sentencing of former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan to consider whether to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.…
A false report circulated last week claiming an unnamed company accidentally spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month due to a missing usage limit. The story spread rapidly across Reddit, X, and news…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring safety testing for frontier AI models before their public release, reversing his earlier decision to cancel the measure over concerns it would be too …