Innovation Council Action (ICA) Founder Taylor Budowich pointed out during a Breitbart News event on Tuesday that AI data centers “should be feeding our communities” instead of taking away from communities and draining them.
Locals have every right to question data centers, Breitbart News social media director and “Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI” author Wynton Hall said.
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton released an AI data center plan Monday, calling for federal legislation to block Chinese technology in the facilities and criminal liability for centers that power AI chatbots harming children.
Porsche has signed a five-year AI partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services company, in a deal valued at almost $1.5 billion.
Breitbart News, in coordination with Innovation Council Action, holds a policy event discussing the rise of artificial intelligence titled “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace” on Tuesday, August 25.
Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico is campaigning on tougher restrictions for data centers and attacking Republican opponent Ken Paxton over contributions connected to the industry, despite previously voting for a 20-year tax incentive for large data centers and benefiting from millions of dollars in political support from donors tied to the data-center and AI industries.
Data centers should not be raising water or electricity rates on consumers, North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Whatley agreed during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against critics of his company’s AI-powered surveillance cameras in a recent interview with Fox News, arguing that privacy and safety concerns must be weighed together rather than against each other.
More than a dozen AI data centers near O’Hare International Airport in suburban Chicago are receiving at least $100 million in local property tax breaks this year, pushing more of the tax burden onto Cook County homeowners.
OpenAI and Apple has introduced a feature that lets ChatGPT read, write and send iMessages on Mac computers, a capability that raises privacy concerns for Apple users.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon discussed the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the K-12 classroom.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said AI data centers have “dug their own grave” by not working in collaboration with local governments. Abbott said, “What we’ve been focused on is responding to concerns that have been raised
In July, roughly 1,000 Georgia residents gathered at the Effingham County College & Career Academy to hear what OpenAI could offer their community. They also faced protesters angry about the impacts of AI data centers.
Liquid Death and Garage Beer have launched a campaign mocking AI data centers by asking Americans to donate their urine as a water-saving fix for the resource hogs popping up around the country.
The far-left Washington Post is panicking over AI and seems pretty sure that the government will have to redistribute wealth if we’re to avoid societal collapse.
An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to draft significant portions of his expert report in a lawsuit over a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes, according to court records.
AI is beginning to weigh on labor markets across major developed economies, with the effects varying by industry and seniority level, according to new research from Goldman Sachs.
A mother and daughter in Maysville, Kentucky, walked away from a combined $26.48 million offer for their family farmland after learning the buyer planned to build a massive AI data center on it.
Google has agreed to pay $10 million for a massive collection of internal Spirit Airlines data, part of the bankrupt carrier’s ongoing asset auctions, according to Bloomberg Law. The tech giant will train its AI on everythnig from consumer flight records to private employee chat logs.
A 24-year-old South Carolina police officer has been fired after department officials discovered she allegedly used the agency’s Flock camera system to run a former romantic partner’s license plate 166 times, according to documents.
A string of collapsed book deals over suspected AI usage by authors is pushing the publishing industry to confront questions about authorship, trust and its own future.
AI startup OpenAI is facing fresh questions about leadership stability after revenue chief Denise Dresser announced her sudden departure, days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. Senior executives leaving before a landmark IPO is a “huge red flag” according to experts.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI industry can only overcome public skepticism by delivering real scientific breakthroughs rather than promises. According to Amodei, Americans are beginning to think grand promises about AI are deceptive, and the only way to change that is AI “curing cancer.”
A plaintiff in a Connecticut court case tried to sway any AI system reviewing his filings by hiding machine-readable instructions in white text, a technique known as prompt injection, only to be caught because of unusual spacing in the documents.
Legendary guitarist Brian May has used Meta AI to poorly recreate the cover of Queen’s 1980 album The Game as a warning about artificial intelligence, declaring that the technology is not needed and that data centers must not be built in the UK.
Billionaire Michael Saylor says AI may make life’s necessities cheaper or even free, but it will not eliminate money because people will always compete for scarce, status-conferring goods. Saylor refutes Elon Musk’s claim that money will be meaningless in the near future, stating: “Everybody doesn’t get a Hampton’s house. Everybody doesn’t get their own private jet.”
Cami Clark, the secretive wife of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, maintains a minimal public profile while serving as a key adviser to the AI leader. Scrutiny of Clark’s history has revealed she sought investment in her “revolutionary porn company” from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after his jail sentence.
Flock Safety, the private AI-powered security camera company installing surveillance technology around the U.S., announced new security measures amid intensifying backlash and reports of law enforcement abuse.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Wednesday that it is entering a national partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), tying the construction of its AI data centers to unionized labor for the first time.
Video game streaming giant Twitch has introduced a setting that allows users to opt out of Amazon using their channel content to train generative AI models, more than two years after a company executive publicly confirmed the practice.
Spotify announced this week that it will begin labeling artists whose personas are generated by AI, a move driven by user frustration with profiles for artists that appear human but are not.
Nvidia is partnering with six major Wall Street asset managers on a $500 billion financing push meant to turn AI chips into a new class of asset that can be borrowed against, similar to commercial real estate or toll roads.
Student activists occupied the lobby of a Washington, DC building housing OpenAI’s public lobbying office on Monday afternoon, resulting in 13 arrests. Some students carried signs reading, “OpenAI bought my Senator.”
OpenAI has lost another senior leader who was responsible for examining the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. This time, the company’s head of ethics has resigned after less than a year on the job.
Anthropic announced Monday that new versions of its Claude AI models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” into the text they generate, a move that could make it harder to pass off AI slop as being created by humans.
Roku has unveiled a new channel dedicated to a 24/7 broadcast of creative AI slop, complete with AI-generated ads.
National security experts are calling for the Chinese Communist Party to face accountability over the coronavirus pandemic following a Senate committee’s vote to hold former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, arguing scrutiny of Fauci should not end the effort to determine responsibility for COVID-19.
The AI boom has driven up demand for memory chips so sharply that companies in other industries, from tech giants like Apple to medical device manufacturers, are now asking the federal government for help securing chip supplies.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control.
Kimi K3, a powerful AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, escaped containment during a security test according to a U.S. cybersecurity startup.
