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There is growing backlash against the thousands of AI data centers popping up around the country that require a great deal of land, power and water. It comes as the White House prepares to unveil a plan to curb the skyrocketing power costs associated with the technology's rapid growth. NBC's Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.
ABC News - 1 day 10 hours agoIt is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company...
GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours agoGetting your weekly chicken fix may have just opened the door to digital identity theft. Chick-fil-A has issued an urgent warning to customers across 10 states after a cyberattack exposed sensitive account details, stored payment info, and rewards balances. If you've used the chain’s popular app to order meals recently, your personal data could already […] Read the original article here: Chick-fil-A warns customers following data breach in 10 states...
A U.S. judge approved the $1.5-billion settlement Anthropic agreed to pay authors whose pirated books it used to train its chatbot Claude.
Around 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and holiday resorts in southwestern France as a wildfire raged near the popular tourist coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret.
In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York's North County. He's been in jail upstate ever since.
"My name is Eric Leroy Adams, I am Jesus Christ," he declares in the phony AI footage."I'm gonna give you a new Libertarian constitution."...
NPR - 1 day 13 hours agoNPR's A Martinez asks Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute how two experimental OpenAI models hacked their way onto the internet and into another AI company, without instruction.
The bipartisan effort addresses claims from American tech companies and officials that Chinese companies are "distilling" frontier U.S. models.
Google's latest run-in with Europe comes with a 10-digit price tag, as well as a fresh test for trans-Atlantic trade. EU regulators on Thursday fined the search giant $1 billion, saying it abused its dominance by giving its own services prime placement in search results while pushing rivals down the...
Waymo's driverless cars just got a notable safety nod: An independent analysis found the company's robotaxis crash less often than human drivers in four major US cities, reports Axios . The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reviewed incidents in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin, and concluded that Waymo vehicles...
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Air and Space - 1 day 18 hours agoIn two incidents documented in Mexico's Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals...
'Popcorn brain' is when someone jumps from one task to another, like watching a movie and then scrolling on Instagram, but is different from ADHD. NBC News' Dr. Akshay Syal talks about who may have it and how to treat it.
A closely watched lawsuit accusing Meta of fueling a Florida teen's mental health struggles with its addictive platform has ended before it began. Days ahead of the trial's planned start in Los Angeles, the 15-year-old plaintiff, identified as RKC, dropped his remaining claims against Meta, his lawyers said Wednesday, per...
Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an increased risk of hair loss, according to researchers.
GeekSpin - 2 days 30 min agoHave you ever told your boss “Yep, almost done!” while frantically trying to figure out how to do the assignment? If your answer is yes, then you and a million other people are in good company. As it turns out, our future AI overlords are doing the exact same thing. Only this time they are […] Read the original article here: AI models get caught cheating and lying to finish tasks...
One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it "strange new music." Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German Enigma network, the "new music" was a rhythmic warble of binary teletype code being transmitted at high speed. Germany's wartime engineers had developed a radically new encryption and transmission system...
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Air and Space - 2 days 7 hours agoPeople brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit...
A new mission to save NASA's Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.
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