During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs by claiming he had negotiated a “rate-payer protection commitment” with big tech companies that would allow them to build or pay for new power generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, … Read more
The challenge when arguing with a deep learning model is often in understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s repeated xAI combat sessions to tweak Grok’s weird politics, ChatGPT’s fight with sycophancy, or common hallucinations, navigating a neural network with trillions of parameters isn’t easy. Today, Guide Labs, a San Francisco startup founded … Read more
Trump’s deregulatory order aims to facilitate rapid construction of new data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them “The Trump administration is gutting health protections that are important to protecting children from toxins like mercury just to save the coal industry some money,” Nicholas Morales, a lawyer for the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, said … Read more
Every episode of HBO Pitt contains a degree of medical trauma that makes a hospital drama almost feel like a horror series. Some patients deal with severe lacerations, while others battle nasty blood infections that could cost them limbs, and the chaos of working in the ER is often left behind. PittThe central characters are … Read more
The Trump administration has just removed a landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planetary heating pollution since 2009. For nearly two decades, “endangerment findings” have empowered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than rolling back these rules individually, the Trump administration … Read more
Antropic is the latest artificial intelligence company to promise to reduce the impact of its data centers on the electricity bills of nearby residents. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to the grid. “This includes shares of these … Read more
A year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to reveal what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to obtain the information. “To date, Defendant … Read more
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