
The Guardian - 1 hour 55 min ago
There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid frenzy' to build more datacenters The US has surged ahead of China in the building of new gas-fired power generation, largely to feed a boom in artificial intelligence (AI) that is adding vast amounts of planet-heating emissions, a new analysis has found. For decades, China's rapid economic growth has seen it outpace the US in the addition of new gas power generation but a recent "frenzy" in datacenter construction...

Wired - 2 hours 25 min ago
Thanks to a dwindling supply of open roles, "one-click" applications, and the rise of artificial intelligence, it's easier than ever to apply for a job. We're all paying the price.

The Next Web - 2 hours 49 min ago
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, according to the Ukrainian presidency's account of talks in Kyiv between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andy Burnham. It formalises a direction British defence policy has already been moving in, having committed 2bn to […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 5 hours 54 min ago
As people grow used to AI chatbots, we'd like to hear your views about Google's search engine Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of...

NPR - 14 hours 38 min ago
OpenAI is slowing down development of its cutting edge AI models to shore up safety protections as concerns rise about artificial intelligence agents going rogue.

Digital Music News - 15 hours 4 min ago
Fully or mostly AI-generated songs will be excluded from Australia’s official music charts starting this Friday, according to the Australian Recording Industry Association. Australia will exclude songs created wholly or mostly by artificial intelligence from the country’s official music charts beginning this Friday, according to new rules established by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). […]...

Stereogum - 21 hours 23 min ago
You're never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually. This time around, the mogul in question is Dr. Dre, and he says that he is, in fact, using AI while making the music that he will presumably never release. He also makes the same instantly tired argument at Two Shell that backlash against AI is motivated by the same retrograde ideas that once drove backlash...

New York Times - 21 hours 35 min ago
Cl ment Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is a vocal supporter of open-source artificial intelligence.

TechRadar - 22 hours 2 min ago
AI claims another victim: Dr. Dre admits to using it for music production The legendary producer doesn't detail how he uses it, though Certain uses could run him afoul of new streaming pushes Another former musician has admitted to embracing artificial intelligence Dr. Dre, formerly of N.W.A, has admitted that he uses AI when he's producing music. In an interview with the New York Times the rapper, who's actually called Andre Romell Young, joined the likes of David Guetta, Timbaland...

Newser - 22 hours 6 min ago
A small drone's lethal flight in Ukraine is being cited as a first: a weapon that appeared to pick its own target using artificial intelligence. Ukrainian investigators say the drone, which killed 19-year-old student Tetiana Bubynets and two others at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia on July 6, lacked antennas,...