US Data Center Backlash Goes National With Protests in 42 States
Opponents of the AI data center boom held 142 protests across 42 states, the first nationwide backlash against a buildout that crosses political lines and worries...
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Opponents of the AI data center boom held 142 protests across 42 states, the first nationwide backlash against a buildout that crosses political lines and worries...
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared...
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from...
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled markets, though no benchmarks...
Economists warn AI's biggest near-term danger may be fiscal: if it displaces high-earning workers, income-tax revenue could fall sharply while welfare costs rise, straining public budgets.
Anthropic's new ad "There's hope in hard questions" drew mockery, including from Sam Altman, for pairing bleak imagery like a cemetery with questions about whether AI...
SoftBank plans to sell about ¥60 billion of notes in Japan this month, its latest raise to fund a mounting AI bet that includes nearly $65...
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic's Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
Anthropic is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October, a move that could take the Claude maker public before rival OpenAI.
OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a $230 mechanical keypad built with Work Louder that gives developers physical controls for its Codex coding agent, its first hardware to...
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge and said Japan's robotics and manufacturing leaders, from FANUC to Sony, intend to join its Cosmos Coalition to build AI for...
Microsoft is coaching its sales force to argue its AI products beat OpenAI's and Anthropic's on cost, security and completeness, turning on the partners whose models...