In the US state's coal country, crypto mining was supposed to bring renewal. Now mines are powering down, and investors are hoping AI-powered data centers will fill the void.

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The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.

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A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

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As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.

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DOGE tested and used Meta’s Llama 2 model to review and classify responses from federal workers to the infamous “Fork in the Road” email.

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When Anthropic's older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

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Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

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As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

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Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.

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Mark Brown, who posts game explainers to his Game Maker’s Toolkit channel, says his persona has been plagiarized.

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Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.

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In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.

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Google’s new chatbot-style AI Mode search experience, previously an experiment, is launching for US users. Publishers and marketers will have to adjust their search strategies once again.

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Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

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The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

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A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

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People are turning to generative AI to sort out their interpersonal conflicts, but some say it’s heightening their anxiety.

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The annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Gemini, Search, and Google’s latest forays into XR.

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