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When people find out I'm a journalist who covers AI, they often ask about the drastic energy consumption of AI data centers. Are these centers using up all of our drinking water? How is this tech affe

AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering “frontier-level coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn soon claim

Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration between his companies Tesla and SpaceX. Bloomberg reports that Musk shared his plans on Saturday night at an event in down

An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially e

Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at

Google's Gemini for Home AI originally could only access stored video clips from compatible security cameras. It could answer questions about object locations, notify you when a UPS van arrived and pr

Apple Music has introduced Transparency Tags, a new metadata system that will help identify and label AI-generated content. The announcement reportedly came in a newsletter sent to music industry part

Over the weekend, the US and Israel launched air strikes against Iran after tensions escalated over nuclear and regional activities, and Iran responded with missile and drone attacks across the region

We're in a world where you can dream up an app and have AI create it for you, just by having a conversation with a chatbot. That's vibe coding.Just about anyone can do it, and there's no real learning

Have you ever been ambushed by an irresistibly catchy tune? One minute you're driving calmly, the next a tune like Wannabe by the Spice Girls comes on the radio, and suddenly you're a full-on pop star

Perhaps it's my refusal to uncritically buy into the idea that everyone will be a specs wearer in the future, but I always appreciate it when companies think of alternative AI-based wearables to smart

Communities across the US have been pushing back against the rapid expansion of data centers built to power artificial intelligence. Residents and local officials rightly argue that facilities consume

This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough — rather than giving engineers only salary

In the next few months, my suitcase is going to get a lot of mileage. From sunny Disney World to colorful Austin, Texas, to the iconic canals in Amsterdam, I'm going to be booked and busy with a slate

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of the Helion — the fusion startup he backs — amid reported talks between the two companies. The deal, which was reported by Axios, is in early st