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Two-thirds of planned U.S. data centers are moving to rural areas, driven by AI compute demand and proximity to high-voltage power lines, but local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in projects across 24 stat…
Indie studio A24 faces fan backlash after signing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google, contradicting the anti-AI stance of its hit film 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons. Fans accuse the studio of betraying…
The Golden State Warriors are reportedly pursuing LeBron James and Anthony Davis this summer after Draymond Green declined his player option. James could join via the non-taxpayer midlevel exception on a one-year, $15 mi…
Anthropic warns that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for, as models like Claude now write over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's systems. The company calls for …
California struck a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to make its Claude AI assistant available to all state agencies and local governments at half the standard enterprise rate, bypassing a Pentagon blacklist that la…
Tidal announced a new AI policy requiring artists to label music wholly or substantially created using AI, and banning royalties from such streams, effective July 15. The policy aims to protect authenticity and livelihoo…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to the Claude AI assistant at half price, making Anthropic the state's first official AI partner. The agreement includes f…
Meta's Fury AI Glasses, the company's cheapest and best smart glasses yet, face severe privacy concerns including unauthorized data collection for AI training and potential facial recognition features. Despite these issu…
DeepSeek released DSpark, an open-source inference framework that accelerates AI model generation by up to 85% without hardware upgrades, challenging U.S. export controls on advanced chips. The framework uses speculative…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that terrorists are exploiting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and unmanned weapons for financing, recruitment, and attacks, while al…
Google warns that proposed EU regulations to weaken its monopoly on Android and search could expose user data to fraud and privacy risks. The European Commission plans to force Google to allow other AI assistants on Andr…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom could trigger a market crash if returns disappoint, noting that five major tech firms are on track to spend over $1 trillion on AI-related capital…
California Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco's bill AB 1821, which initially sought to extend response times for public records requests and later added provisions allowing fees for requests deemed malicious or commercial, w…
Taiwanese prosecutors raided Super Micro Computer's offices on May 21 as part of a criminal probe into an alleged $2.5 billion scheme to smuggle Nvidia AI servers to China, marking a major enforcement action under US sem…
Kobo has rejected 45% of submissions after a surge of AI-generated books were uploaded to its platform, citing quality concerns. The move aims to maintain content standards and protect the integrity of its catalog.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic have reached a deal allowing state agencies to use the Claude AI chatbot at a discounted price, aiming to improve government efficiency. The agreement diverges from the fede…
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reflects on his 21-year tenure in an exit interview, discussing his mother's wish for him to become a bishop, the genesis of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, …
A developer explains why they refuse to run untrusted AI models in coding agents, citing risks of backdoored code and arbitrary execution. They trust only Anthropic and OpenAI due to legal and financial incentives, while…
South Korean tech giants Samsung and SK Hynix have committed over $550 billion to build four new memory fabs and an HBM packaging hub, part of a national plan to address the global memory chip shortage (RAMageddon) and b…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reached a deal with Anthropic to offer its Claude AI chatbot at a 50% discount to state agencies and local governments, aiming to boost adoption and improve government efficiency. The…