MIT Technology Review

How I learned to stop worrying and love AI slop

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
PC Magazine

Banish Spreadsheet Headaches: How I Use ChatGPT as My Excel and Google Sheets Wingman

Save hours on data entry and formula writing with my game-changing AI tips. From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and AI that seems to be everywhere, I cover many topics at PCMag. I've ...
Wall Street Journal

Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.
Hosted on MSN

Bizarre moment car 'surfs' down slope when dramatic landslide hits

Security camera footage captured incredible scenes in mid-October in the Chinese city of Yan'an. Heavy rains caused a slope to collapse. The earth buried several parked vehicles. A car owner was ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...
Scientific American

The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...
Fox Business

Fed's Goolsbee says central bank has other data options if shutdown disrupts economic reports

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday the central bank will look at alternate data sources to consider at its October meeting if upcoming economic data is not released as ...
Reuters

Fed's Goolsbee: Will need to turn to other data sources if US reports suspended during shutdown -Fox Business

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said on Tuesday that U.S. central bankers would have to hunt for alternate data sources to consider at their October ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
Los Angeles Times

Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The AI-driven boom in data centers is putting growing demands on water in California and the Southwest. New ...