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Nearly 200 activists in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of coal to power artificial intelligence data centers
ABC News
Vice President JD Vance joined Sen. Jon Husted and other GOP leaders at a Middletown, Ohio, steel plant, as data center fears loom.
CNBC
Prominent figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement are telling President Trump that "data centers should not become the justification for burning more coal." Why it matters: The appeal, in a joint letter , collides with Trump officials' support for coal to help power AI. It cites coal's public health and environmental toll due to soot pollution, mercury, and byproducts called "coal ash" that contain heavy metals. The big picture: The letter signals an escalation of MAHA engagement on…
Axios
Alberta's technology minister faced yet another firing line of fury at the government's second town hall hearing from residents over its plan for artificial intelligence data centres.
CBC News
The RCMP said the youth was arrested Friday morning. Charges have not been laid yet and the investigation is ongoing, police said in a news release.
Global News
Consumer advocates are urging the FTC to examine whether AI developers are hurting competition and reducing public access to source material.
CBS News
The favorite energy stocks of hedge funds - including one with a projected 65% upside
CNBC
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
TechCrunch
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.
CNBC
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) is calling for a one-year moratorium on data center construction until Michiganders can “get their questions answered” about such projects. The Republican, who is running in Michigan’s closely watched Senate race, cited his conversations with voters on the campaign trail about the issue in an interview with NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich.…
The Hill
For real estate professionals, the potential consequence is another variable in the affordability equation
HousingWire
America is caught in a historic capital squeeze: On one side: Trillions Washington must borrow to pay for the past . On the other: Trillions the economy needs to build the future . Why it matters: The next president will inherit a fiscal reckoning decades in the making. The price it exacts — on taxes, benefits, borrowing and investment — could shape America's prosperity and power for generations. Zoom in: President Trump said in 2016 that he could eliminate what was then roughly $19 trillion in…
Axios
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself . They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment, then autonomously hacked…
The Guardian
As tech companies like Meta push their AI wearables, many are concerned with privacy protections. Anna Schechter has more.
CBS News
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is positioning herself as a leader of the Democratic search for a data center position that isn't explicitly anti-business. Why it matters: Hochul says her data center platform isn't being designed with politics in mind. But as candidates across the country scramble for a winning position on the issue, New York is emerging as a test bed for one potential approach. What they're saying: In an interview with Axios, Hochul said the "thoughtful" approach for Democrats…
Axios
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]
The Verge
AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues. Why it matters: The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research communities can ignore. Driving the news: A RAND report out this week outlines nine mitigation strategies targeting a range of actors who could use AI to design and release a…
Axios
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Ars Technica
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the…
MIT Technology Review
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
TechCrunch
The race to build data centers, which power artificial intelligence and cloud computing, has run aground amid frustration from voters who don't want to live near the massive warehouse campuses.
PBS NewsHour
Roblox is sharing AI safety models that detect online grooming, personal information requests and voice chat violations with other platforms.
Fox News
A judge will investigate how AI-based errors affected criminal cases in Nevada County, where the district attorney has already acknowledged that mistakes appeared in four cases.
CalMatters
Both the Michigan and Ohio Senate races have become data center battlegrounds.
Politico
AI chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere
ABC News
AI chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere
ABC News
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think…
MIT Technology Review
The unemployment rate for 22- to 27-year-olds with higher education degrees is above the national average. Is artificial intelligence to blame?
NPR
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
TechCrunch
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
TechCrunch
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
TechCrunch
(RNS) — A machine may reproduce words, images or melodies. But Sikh practice, many argue, remains rooted in intention, consciousness and connection.
Religion News Service
Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.
TechCrunch
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
TechCrunch
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
TechCrunch
