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Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state (Stephanie Findlay/Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

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As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg) Read More »

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A lawsuit filed by The Seattle Times and Newsday argued that with the advent of AI, the journalism industry could become “broken beyond repair.” The lawsuit described generative AI as “a snake eating its own tail”

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global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal) Read More »

Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” (ABC News)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” (ABC News) Read More »

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) Read More »

the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters) Read More »

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida’s 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (Miranda Murray/Reuters)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

Berlin is reviewing Rhysida’s 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (Miranda Murray/Reuters) Read More »

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge) Read More »

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