It’s a little easier to justify trying Kagi now.

The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a beautiful European 🇪🇺 flag, so for now nothing will happen. This means it’s time for industrial policy, which requires politics to be proficient in “industry.

A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines.

Local cloud startups offer data sovereignty at a time when the debate about who has access to a country’s data is heating up.

The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.

Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—the degree of continui…

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

AI training costs are growing exponentially year after year.

Opponents mobilize against a California bill to regulate police use of face recognition technology, saying it won't stop wrongful arrests.

Lionsgate seems to be going all in on generative AI.

New data from WRI finds that in most cities, the difference between 3 degrees C and 1.5 degrees C of warming is sizable.

Constellation announced today the signing of a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft that will pave the way for the launch of the Crane Clean Energy Center (CCEC) and restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1, which operated at industry-leading levels of safety and reliability for decades before being shut down for economic reasons exactly five years ago today.

Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.

An Ohio power company is trying to make major tech companies pay more of the costs of upgrading the electric grid to accommodate power-hungry data centers.

Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

A boom in data centers is expected to produce about 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally through the end of the decade, and accelerate investments in decarbonization efforts, according to Morgan Stanley research.

“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”

Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.

Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets

Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.

Google's greenhouse gas emissions have increased by half over the last five years due to the energy demands of artificial intelligence.

Nature - Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.

In this blog post Julia Velkova discusses the problematics related to data centres from the Nordic perspective: Are the Nordic States too reliant on tech giants to in the critical communication infrastructures of the Welfare state?

The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.