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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […]
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Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […]
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Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […]
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xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted Read More »
The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills. Three people familiar with the […]
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The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities Read More »
The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out. “So the math just simply doesn’t math,” Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s chief […]
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Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out Read More »
A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District, CNBC reports. The timing is pointed. The Justice Department approved the roughly $110bn deal last month without conditions or divestitures, after an eight-month review. […]
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Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports. Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”, not that they have started, and […]
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Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier Read More »
The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College’s Center for […]
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AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first Read More »
Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger. On Monday the company said its Hyperion data […]
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Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two Read More »
Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises. Aubrey spent more than a year on a project to speed up a costly medical manufacturing process. When she finished, her manager asked her […]
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Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI Read More »