
The Guardian - 5 hours 25 min ago
They suck up energy and water, and blast out heat. Just who is better off from all this investment aside from tech bros? The two great existential threats of our time the climate crisis and AI come hurtling together in the explosion of datacentres across Australia and around the world. You can hardly avoid hearing about them these days, either with awed reverence of the promised benefits to humankind or with fear and anger given the implications for the climate, inflation, jobs and even housing...

The Guardian - 7 hours 25 min ago
Political campaigns are increasingly deploying AI and deepfakes to further their messaging, and the scale of spread has experts concerned From the comfort of his bed, Jonathan Rinaldi, a political candidate for a city council seat in Queens, New York, tinkered away on his iPhone, prompting an artificial intelligence chatbot to mock up fake news hits and endorsements he had never received. During the campaign last October, Rinaldi shared one of those stories, made to appear real with a CNN logo,...

Mother Jones - 8 hours 56 min ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In brief remarks to reporters Monday at the White House, President Donald Trump noted that he was shocked to learn how much energy developing artificial intelligence requires and said his administration is now approving plans for energy facilities to power […]...

Los Angeles Times - 10 hours 26 min ago
AI can be very knowledgeable. Doctors can have excellent judgment. But ultimately the patient's own priorities often determine which treatment approach is best.

UPI - 10 hours 31 min ago
Seoul shares plummeted 5.4 percent Wednesday as technology stocks extended their losses and investors reassessed the outlook for artificial intelligence (AI) trade.

The Guardian - 10 hours 43 min ago
Those with high levels of vocational training, including tradespeople, are least exposed to AI displacement, according to government review Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Artificial intelligence has yet to cause widespread job losses but the federal government has warned that telemarketers, advertising staff and accountants are among the occupations "most exposed" to being replaced by the technology. According to a first-of-its-kind national report , people...

CNBC - 11 hours 48 min ago
Temasek is repositioning its China portfolio toward AI-related hardware and infrastructure, robotics, biotech, energy transition.

The Next Web - 12 hours 6 min ago
Amazon has gone back to the debt markets for at least $25bn, its largest bond sale of the year and the clearest sign yet of how much the company is prepared to borrow to keep pace in the artificial intelligence race. The offering is split across eight tranches with maturities running from 2029 out to […] This story continues at The Next Web...

UPI - 19 hours 1 min ago
S. Korean experts say artificial intelligence data centers and chip fabs could require more power than earlier forecasts, requiring a new energy mix.

The Hill - 23 hours 24 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Americans' concerns about AI outweigh excitement Americans are nearly three times as likely to be concerned rather than excited about the growing footprint of artificial intelligence in society, according to a new biweekly survey about the public's sentiment on the advancing technology. Getty Images The "Americans on AI" poll,...