Aug 26 Watch 8:02 How data centers became a major issue in the midterms By Lisa Desjardins, Jonah Anderson While there are many issues dividing voters this midterm season, one seems to be uniting them: opposition to AI data centers. Candidates who've taken notice are racing to shape policy around these centers, which could be a defining issue in… Continue watching
Aug 25 Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 24 Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs By Chan Ho-him, Fu Ting, Associated Press Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape China's job market, supported by state policies that some economists believe might undermine the overall strength of its economy. Continue reading
Aug 24 Taiwan charges 9 over illegal AI server exports to China, including Nvidia and Super Micro staffers By Associated Press Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday for illegally exporting “high-end AI servers” to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI rivalry between China and the United States. Continue reading
Aug 20 Trump keeps embracing data centers, an unpopular topic in midterm races By Jesse Bedayn, Marc Levy, Scott Bauer, Associated Press The race to build data centers, which power artificial intelligence and cloud computing, has run aground amid frustration from voters who don't want to live near the massive warehouse campuses. Continue reading
Aug 19 WATCH: Trump talks about North Korea, interest rates while hosting cryptocurrency leaders at the White House By Associated Press President Donald Trump held court on Wednesday with several cryptocurrency and finance leaders for an event on digital assets. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 6:42 What Meta's new open-source AI model means for the future of artificial intelligence By William Brangham, Azhar Merchant Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has released a free artificial intelligence tool. The release was accompanied by a 14-page essay from CEO Mark Zuckerberg championing his view of how AI could transform our world and what protections are… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 4:32 How satellites and AI cameras are detecting wildfires before they get out of control By Ben Tracy This year is becoming one of the worst for U.S. wildfires in at least a decade. There have been more fires and more acreage burned at this point in the year compared to any in the last ten. With fire… Continue watching
Jul 31 Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing By Chan Ho-him, Associated Press Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs. Continue reading
Jul 25 What's the difference between closed, open‑source and open-weight AI? A researcher explains By Jeffrey Young, The Conversation AI models that are open source allow developers and users to see and modify the underlying program code. Continue reading