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Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 1mo ago
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit
Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on semiconductor tariffs and Taiwan.
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AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
Old "honor code" systems are under strain.
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Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar
"Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.
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Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.
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Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update
The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.
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The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.
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“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
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Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year
Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.
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Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026
Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.
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Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
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Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
But human artists still "must remain at the center," PlayStation maker says.
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Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
Google's AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.
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Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit
The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.
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Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla
Musk was “prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.”
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Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.
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TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch
TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.
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Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
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Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.
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Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
Also, 5-hour usage limits will double for Pro and Max users of Claude Code.
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Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens
Up to 3x the speed with no loss of quality—is it too good to be true?
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OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.
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