The search giant's addition of AI-generated overviews could reshape the web.

Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police are blocking traffic in protest.

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.

Artificial intelligence devours vast energy while clouding the human wisdom that might save us.

Data centre electricity demand is forecast to double in four years, putting energy grids under pressure.

Researchers tested GPT-4 and other models on their abilities to understand hints, lies, irony, and more.

Scarlett Johansson declined OpenAI's request for her to provide her voice for ChatGPT -- and was "shocked" when it used voice similar to hers.

People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.

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Five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.

The report looked at mines around the globe producing minerals like lithium, nickel, zinc and cobalt that are needed for the energy transition.

Microsoft's 2023 emissions were 29.1% above 2020 levels, a function of surging AI power needs.

Microsoft is desperately looking for cleaner and less polluting ways to power its AI data centres. For one of its biggest AI centres that it will be developing with OpenAI and invest $100 bn in, Microsoft plans to set up a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it

Microsoft's Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. (Microsoft

Illegal mining area in the Uraricoera River, within the Yanomami Indigenous Land

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

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It’s bot versus bot on the hiring front lines, as job hunters turn to new tools to counter the AI that’s screening their applications

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Scientists are concerned developments in Artificial intelligence could have unintended and severe consequences for human society

Microsoft-backed super-lab gets access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

Artificial intelligence consumes a lot of energy, but history suggests that with concerted effort by industry and government, it won’t wreck the electric grid, or cause calamitous amounts of carbon

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Big Tech is bringing AI into the health care industry, but medical machine models carry risks to privacy and patient safety.