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A new report from Grundfos warns that Europe's plan to triple datacenter capacity by 2035 is threatened by water and power shortages, with electricity demand projected to jump from 10 GW to 35 GW by 2030. Multiple EU gov…
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX’s agreement with AI company Anthropic to lease computing power at the Colossus data center is only a 180-day lease with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, contradicting earlier reports o…
Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by data-center expansion, hardware efficiency, and algorithmic progress. Preliminary estimates place nomina…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence could arrive by 2030, possibly as soon as 2029, warning that society has only a few years to prepare. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis described…
Author Brett Scott argues that Palantir Technologies should be renamed Orthanc Inc., drawing a direct parallel between the data-mining firm and the dark tower of the wizard Saruman in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Ri…
A nonprofit research foundation, Aithos, found that all major AI models violate EU data protection and AI regulations to varying degrees. Using its LARA tool, Aithos determined the models collected user data without prop…
The AI control plane—the inference routing, authentication, observability, and orchestration layers that power AI tools—has become the new shadow IT, sprawling across organizations because it was never classified as infr…
Illinois lawmakers passed the nation's strongest AI safety law on Wednesday, requiring major AI firms to submit public safety plans and third-party testing reports, just days after President Donald Trump canceled a feder…
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative deploying more than 20,000 engineers and an AI-driven clearinghouse to identify, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities in open source software. The p…
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll for potential perjury during her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, according to two sources. The probe examines whether Carroll made …
US auto safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into Rivian Automotive Inc. covering about 115,000 R1 electric pickups and SUVs over potential failure of a rear toe link suspension part. The National Hi…
Super Micro Computer shares surged Tuesday on heavy call option volume after management announced collaboration with Taiwanese authorities to prevent illegal chip smuggling into China, resulting in three arrests and the …
Microsoft is testing a 15-character limit for Windows Server administrator passwords, a change that has frustrated IT professionals who rely on longer, more complex credentials for security. The new restriction, currentl…
Anthropic employees have donated more than $880,000 directly to political campaigns favoring stricter AI regulations, with OpenAI staff contributing an additional $300,000, according to FEC data analyzed by Transformer. …
Meta announced new anti-scam and anti-abuse measures ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, including AI tools, consumer education pop-ups, and partnerships with law enforcement and industry peers. The company reported removi…
The FBI warned that a new hacking platform called Kali365 is enabling cybercriminals to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts, including Outlook, Teams and OneDrive, while bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely. The bure…
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, 2026, calling for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence to protect human dignity and the common good. The 42,300-word doc…
CNN filed a federal copyright and trademark lawsuit against Perplexity in the Southern District of New York, alleging the AI company scraped more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos and videos without permission to train its…
Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of Waabi and a University of Toronto professor, told a BetaKit town hall on May 25 that the world is entering a "physical AI" revolution and urged Canada to "go all in" on the technology. …
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on X that the company's compute lease with Anthropic is a 180-day agreement with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, directly contradicting SpaceX's SEC filing which describes the deal as a t…