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Residents of Sterling, Virginia, dispute President Donald Trump's claim that Chinese influence is driving opposition to US data centres, saying their protests stem from the invasive noise, fumes, and lights from a nearby…
Eight days after Article 50 of the EU AI Act began to apply, a sweep of 1,088 EU-facing websites found that roughly 11% of the 12,285-site frame shows a real chat launcher, but on 78% of confirmed widgets the first messa…
Google won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Spirit Airlines' corporate dataset for $10 million, outbidding AI data firm Mercor's $7.5 million offer. The dataset includes roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft T…
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that Georgia's 2021 redistricting maps violated the Voting Rights Act, sending the case back for reconsideration under a new legal framework requirin…
Australia's AI surveillance debate has intensified after the Administrative Review Tribunal overturned a 2024 Privacy Commissioner ruling that Bunnings breached privacy laws by using facial recognition, and Coles and Woo…
Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence risks becoming a new form of 'economic colonialism,' deepening the gap between wealthy and poor nations, and said algorithms are already creating 'a subtle form of dominat…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday, investigating how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face last month. The s…
SDI Protocol has introduced a hash-chained ledger system that validates AI reasoning and safety at a compile gate before committing outputs, enabling external verification of decision-making. The system targets transpare…
Public opinion against new data centers shifted 12 points between March and July, according to a national poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, fueling a GOP backlash that is turning midterm elections into referend…
The term 'artificial intelligence' has become so overused that it has lost its meaning, with companies like Canva labeling basic automation tools as AI and products such as Coca-Cola's AI-co-created flavor and Cooler Mas…
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners CIO Trey Parker warned on Bloomberg Television that the AI infrastructure boom carries credit risks comparable to the late-1990s telecom bust, as AI-related debt issuance is projected to re…
Anthropic, the frontier AI lab, plans to tell investors its potential revenue could top $30 trillion, a figure that exceeds the $28.5 trillion market claim made by SpaceX and approaches the $32.4 trillion annualized GDP …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, campaigning for U.S. Senate, faced widespread online criticism after unveiling his 'Texas First Data Center Plan' on X, which includes banning Chinese technology in data centers, holdin…
The General Services Administration is seeking to add more device fingerprinting to Login.gov, the government's unified account manager, to combat identity fraud, according to a request for information posted Tuesday. Th…
A Stanford University study analyzing anonymized salary data from HR platform ADP found that employment in AI-exposed occupations among people aged 22 to 25 is now 19% lower than in less exposed positions, up from 13% la…
Chris Malone, OpenAI's head of data centers, has left the company, adding to a wave of senior leadership departures as OpenAI prepares for a potential IPO. Malone joined in March 2025 after nearly five years at Meta and …
Anthropic is expected to tell investors its total addressable market exceeds $30 trillion, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate, according to sources familiar with the matter. The projection, which has not been in…
The U.K. AI Security Institute (AISI) has appointed Henry de Zoete as its new director, a former advisor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who helped conceive the institute in 2023 and organize the first international AI saf…
A Heatmap poll on data center backlash has sparked debate, with commentators attributing it to various causes, but the author argues it is primarily about data centers themselves rather than broader issues like AI safety…
Mistral, the French AI startup, and HUMAIN, a Saudi full-stack AI company, announced a strategic partnership worth hundreds of millions of euros to develop sovereign AI capabilities in Saudi Arabia and the region, focusi…