The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
A short drive from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 ...
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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. ...
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Lawmakers in at least five other states—Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Virginia—have also introduced bills this year that would impose ...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according ...
People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting ...
The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
“We always have far more people applying than we actually accept into our apprenticeship programs,” Madello explains. How many trainees ...
Jensen Huang Says Nvidia’s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ‘Full Production’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that the company’s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving ...
The Great Big Power Play
Take yourself back to 2017. Get Out and The Shape of Water were playing in theaters, Zohran Mamdani was still ...
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In ...
WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025
Brian Barrett: I just this week was looking back at some of our earliest DOGE reporting and reminded of what ...
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