Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an...
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the...
A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) academic lab today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models...
DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze...
Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It
When Claude 3.7 Sonnet played the game, it ran into some challenges: It spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one...
Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI
Politico became one of the first newsrooms last year to win a union contract that included rules on how the...
Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?
Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that...
OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work
OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind...
A Gaming YouTuber Says an AI-Generated Clone of His Voice Is Being Used to Narrate ‘Doom’ Videos
On a little known YouTube channel, a breezy, British narrator is explaining the ins and outs of Doom: The Dark...
Jack Dorsey’s Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity
At a company-wide hackathon this month, developers at finance firm Block built a dizzying number of prototype tools including a...
