Nature

AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit biases when training other systems

Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this ...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

One company, AfterQuery, sells a series of off-the-shelf “worlds” to AI labs, with names such as “Big Tech World”, “Finance ...
CNN

Scientists have found an alarming environmental impact of vast data centers

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...
Reuters

Utility Entergy says revised Meta data-center deal to deliver higher customer savings

March 27 (Reuters) - Utility Entergy (ETR.N), opens new tab said Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will pay its full cost of service for the planned hyperscale data center in ‌northeast Louisiana ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
Wired

New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction

The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead. US ...
MLive

Google data center deal with DTE is ‘a step upward’ for Michigan, advocates say

WAYNE COUNTY, MI - As anxiety grows that power-hungry data centers could drive up power bills and keep Michigan hooked on fossil fuels, some advocates say a new deal between the state’s largest power ...
Bleeping Computer

HackerOne discloses employee data breach after Navia hack

Bug bounty platform HackerOne is notifying hundreds of employees that their data was stolen after attackers hacked Navia, one of its U.S. benefits administrators. HackerOne manages over 1,950 bug ...
Chicago Tribune

Joliet City Council OKs controversial mega data center project

Moments after approving a controversial 795-acre data center project, Joliet City Council members pledged to keep tabs on the developer as the 24-building technology center is built. The proposal drew ...
Engadget

Blue Origin also wants to put AI data centers in space

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 ...
Chicago Reader

The fight over Illinois’s data center boom is coming to a head

At a packed and contentious Joliet City Council meeting on Tuesday night, opponents outnumbered supporters of a proposed data center at the edge of the city, not far from a large warehouse development ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Groundskeeper Noticed a Sinkhole on a Golf Course. It Turned Out to Be a Wine Cellar Full of Empty Bottles, Untouched for More Than 100 Years

A sinkhole has opened up on a golf course in Manchester, England, revealing an abandoned wine cellar. Officials say nobody had been in the forgotten space for more than 100 years. Steve Hopkins, the ...