Amazon's new Texas data center could become the single largest polluter in the US
The facility could release up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, rivaling Switzerland and Ireland
Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta say AI is making their jobs harder, not easier
Current and former employees report 90-hour weeks during AI sprints
Google is testing a new homepage that buries the search button for AI
The redesign adds "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" as new default options
Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action
The senator says recent rogue-agent incidents show AI firms are losing control of their own systems.
A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras
The demonstration tested whether adversarial design can defeat computer-vision algorithms
What just happened? Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project is testing whether computer-generated patterns can interfere with software used to identify people, vehicles, and other objects on surveillance cameras. The project received its first public test Friday at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Swearingen worked with Donut Media to cover a 2009 Toyota Yaris with one of his patterns and drive it past a Flock camera. "We proved it was effective," Swearingen, a cybersecurity professional and founder of SIXCYBER, told TechCrunch.
Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops
The chatbot recommended an herbicide that also kills sesame plants
Facepalm: Most readers of this site know not to blindly trust AI on important matters, even if it got things right before. A farmer in Chuzhou, China, discovered this the hard way when he took weed and pest control advice from a chatbot. The result was the death of 25 acres of crops.
An AI agent was asked to book a gym class, whe none was available, it decided to hack the system and jump the queue
The agent found a weak API while doing a simple chore, and took actions the user never requested
A misleading headline made people think AI was replacing 911 dispatchers
New Orleans says the AI tool only screens duplicate calls about known car crashes
Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb"
Andrew Bosworth told employees to ask their parents if requesting more days off was a good "career strategy"
SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs
The Y2 fab will focus on HBM and next-gen DRAM, while the M17 plant will mainly produce NAND flash
Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
AI agents are accelerating the rise of non-human traffic
Asus' new monitor software lets you control brightness with your voice, or just let AI do it
New OLED Care tools aim to further reduce the risk of image burn-in
SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory
It will generate much of its own electricity with natural gas plants and massive battery arrays
OpenAI's mysterious ChatGPT device is a $300+ doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts
The "physical manifestation" of ChatGPT
Google's AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc
Google says it doesn't train AI on private docs, but this developer still can't explain what happened
This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland
Developers are chasing large sites with grid access, but more rural communities are pushing back
Meta becomes the third AI giant in two weeks to admit its model went rogue
The latest incident raises more questions about companies' ability to contain AI agents
Kioxia's new PCIe 6.0 SSDs want to feed GPUs data at a fraction of HBM's price
GP1 SSDs are optimized for direct GPU access through the PCIe interface
Google's AI told people Flock cameras were full of gold. They weren't.
Gemini mistook internet memes for facts about Flock license plate cameras
AI slop, privacy fears, and endless scrolling are making people fall out of love with the internet
A new survey reveals growing frustration with tracking, deepfakes, and time-wasting algorithms
A hot potato: Remember the days when the internet was a fun place full of memes and funny videos, and you couldn't use AI to fulfill the request, "photos or it didn't happen"? Today, many people's view of the net is becoming negative, with 50% of users expecting their data to be exposed, AI making everything hard to believe, and the web stealing too much of their time.
Greece is using thermal satellites to spot wildfires before people do
The system can detect heat signatures through smoke and spot a fire the size of a parking space
Visual Studio Code adds on-device AI dictation and sidebar chats
Visual Studio Code 1.132 introduces multilingual on-device AI dictation powered by Nemotron 3.5, alongside new sidebar chats that let developers interact with Copilot without interrupting their workflow. VS Code is one of our Essential Apps for both Windows and macOS.
Samsung reveals next-gen memory with stacked HBM and 400-layer NAND
zHBM promises 8x the performance of HBM5
OpenAI to pay $3.2 million over allegations it favored visa holders and discouraged US job applicants
The DOJ says the company hid job listings, required paper applications, and used late-night radio ads
AMD's data center business just more than doubled, and gaming is paying the price
AMD made $6.7 billion from data centers last quarter – and expects to double it again