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The laws have been criticised by tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don’t go far enough

In a country with abundant hydro- and wind power, as well as plenty of water, rising electricity needs pit industries against each other. Parts of civil society attempt to slow down the building craze, to little avail.

The San Diego Comic Con quietly updated its policy to sweepingly ban AI-generated art, following an uproar of complaints from artists.

Copilot invented a football match that never happened

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the deal would help boost semiconductor production in the US.

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.

The tech giant's new "community first" initiative includes pledges to pay full power costs, reject local tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses — a response to growing backlash against AI infrastructure expansion.

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

/PRNewswire/ -- The UAE has announced the launch of the 'AI for Development' initiative, worth $1 billion, to support and finance artificial intelligence...

Egune is one of several linguistically and culturally aware AI models built by smaller nations to reduce reliance on American and Chinese tech giants.

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said during a "Dwarkesh Podcast" that companies need to find a productive way to use the massive amounts of compute.

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

Named Diella, the new minister will help Albania "leapfrog" bigger, more advanced countries, says Edi Rama.

New Yorkers are defacing ads for Friend, an AI companion startup. The campaign cost the company over $1 million.

Any in-demand item can be resold, including invite codes for OpenAI's TikTok-like AI app.

In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.

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Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who is building AI infrastructure with astronomical investments, has unveiled plans to secure data centers with a capacity of 250 gi

How does AlphaEarth's AI model make Earth's data more accessible and insightful for scientists and planners worldwide?

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

The university staff members say there were numerous citation errors in the report on the automation of welfare penalties.

Gloo is a technology platform that connects the faith ecosystem, helping people and organizations do more of what they are called to do.

Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.

US medical journal article about 60-year-old with bromism warns against using AI app for health information

Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving

Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligence. We are normalizing digital necromancy, a grotesque spectacle where the dead are reanimated as

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

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When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.