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One City's Huge New AI Data Center Will Be a 'Game Changer'

Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, will use more electricity than every home in the state

(Newser) - An artificial intelligence data center that would use more electricity than every home in Wyoming combined, before expanding to as much as five times that size, will be built soon near Cheyenne, according to the city's mayor. "It's a game changer. It's huge," Mayor Patrick...

Trump Wants to Change Name of 'Artificial Intelligence'

'I can't stand it,' he says, because it's 'genius,' not artificial

(Newser) - Will "artificial intelligence" go the way of the "Gulf of Mexico?" President Trump changed the latter to the "Gulf of America," and now he's kicking around another name change related to AI. When he spoke at an industry summit on Wednesday to roll out his...

Trump: We're Banning 'Wokeness' From AI Models

Executive order is part of a broader plan that removes restrictions from the industry

(Newser) - President Trump unveiled an "A.I. Action Plan" and signed three related executive orders on Wednesday intended to make the US a leader in artificial intelligence, reports the Guardian . By and large, the White House is giving a green light to tech companies to advance the technology by removing...

With Help of AI, Man Built 7 Bombs in NYC Plot: Cops

Prosecutors say suspect used online guides to make homemade explosives

(Newser) - A Long Island man is facing federal charges after authorities say he built homemade bombs using guidance from artificial intelligence, then transported them to Manhattan with plans to detonate them there, NBC News reports. According to prosecutors, Michael Gann, 55, constructed seven improvised explosive devices by ordering common chemicals...

Teens Outsmart AI at Math Olympiad—but Not by Much

AI models from Google and OpenAI hit gold-level scores for first time at IMO

(Newser) - Humans still have the upper hand at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), but AI is closing in fast. At this year's event, held in Australia, five young math whizzes notched perfect scores, while generative AI models from Google and OpenAI landed gold-level results by racking up 35 out...

Zuckerberg: Top AI Talent Has 3 Asks

Money is only one of them

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg says that when it comes to attracting top artificial intelligence researchers, the much-discussed hefty paycheck is only one factor. Speaking on The Information's TITV on Monday, the Meta CEO noted these highly sought-after specialists have two other priorities: minimal management responsibility and maximum access to computing...

Gen Z Job-Seekers Have Big New Problem: AI

Artificial intelligence appears to be shrinking the number of entry-level corporate jobs

(Newser) - Recent college graduates hoping to snag an entry-level corporate job are running into a new, digital hurdle: artificial intelligence. According to the career platform Handshake, job postings for entry-level white-collar positions—long seen as the first step for new grads—have fallen by 15%, reports CBS News . Meanwhile, competition...

AI Data Centers Are Thirsty. Just Ask the Neighbors
A Big Problem With AI
Data Centers: Water
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Jul 15, 2025 7:08 AM CDT

A Big Problem With AI Data Centers: Water

New York Times looks at the immense needs of such facilities

(Newser) - It's a lesser known fact about AI data centers now popping up around the country and the world: They need immense quantities of water to operate. The New York Times explores the issue through the lens of Newton County, Georgia, where Meta has built one such facility. The massive...

Pentagon Gives Musk's Grok a $200M AI Contract

Chatbot from xAI joins GSA's product lineup

(Newser) - The Pentagon has signed a contract for as much as $200 million to deploy Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, across the Defense Department. The deal represents a major push to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into federal government operations. The move was revealed by xAI...

McDonald's Chatbot Breached With 2 Guesses at Password

Paradox.ai owns up to weak password '123456,' which exposed millions of job seekers' data

(Newser) - Millions of McDonald's job seekers had their personal information exposed after hackers cracked the fast-food giant's AI hiring bot with the simplest of passwords: "123456." McDonald's AI hiring platform, Olivia, used by many McDonald's franchisees, employs a chatbot to screen candidates. Researchers Ian...

Video Game Performers Win Pay Raises, AI Protections

They were on strike for 11 months

(Newser) - Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers....

Pig-Organ Trial Suggests AI Robot Surgeons Are Coming

Researchers say human trials could occur within a decade

(Newser) - AI-trained robot surgeons have successfully performed complex operations on pig organs without human help—paving the way for fully automated surgery trials on humans within a decade, researchers say. A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University recounts what the robots managed to achieve in the trial: The...

Nvidia Beats Apple, Microsoft to the $4T Mark

AI chipmaker is the first to hit that market cap

(Newser) - Nvidia has become the the first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market value, leaping past Apple and Microsoft as its AI-powered chips fuel a new era of tech growth. CNN reports the company's stock jumped 2.5% on Wednesday, and in doing so pushed it...

Musk's Chatbot Begins Calling Itself 'MechaHitler'

Antisemitic posts followed prompt encouraging Grok to make 'politically incorrect' claims

(Newser) - Elon Musk claimed significant improvements to his troubled AI chatbot , Grok, on Friday. By Tuesday, the chatbot was calling itself "MechaHitler" and "spewing hate speech about Jewish people," per Rolling Stone . The xAI chatbot integrated into X apparently absorbed a torrent of antisemitic abuse directed at an...

Chatbots Are Writing Key Parts of Biomedical Papers

Study suggests that a rise in certain words is a telltale clue

(Newser) - Researchers looking into the subject of artificial intelligence have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of their colleagues are using it to help write their papers. The study in Science Advances estimates that 14% of the abstracts of biomedical research papers—one in seven—used an AI tool such as...

Big Bill's AI Regulatory Ban Was Shot Down 99-1

Last-ditch GOP effort to save provision failed

(Newser) - A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision from the legislation...

Zuckerberg's 'List' Has Silicon Valley Buzzing

Meta chief is reportedly trying to poach top AI engineers with $100M salaries

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, it's known as "The List," reports the Wall Street Journal . Compiled by Mark Zuckerberg over the last several months, this list includes the names of the leading engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence—and Zuckerberg is reportedly trying to recruit them all. The story...

AI Data Centers Will Need a Lot More Power Going Forward

Electricity demand will jump 30 times by 2035, per Deloitte report

(Newser) - As AI data centers rapidly multiply, their electricity needs are set to soar, posing major challenges for power grids, industry partnerships, and infrastructure investment, according to a new Deloitte report cited by Quartz . The firm warns that the electricity demand from AI data centers is expected to jump dramatically—...

iPhone Designer to Create &#39;Amazing Products&#39; for OpenAI
OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration
Comes Under Fire
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Jun 24, 2025 2:45 AM CDT

OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration Comes Under Fire

A startup has filed a trademark infringement complaint

(Newser) - Little more than a month after Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, teased the "amazing products that elevate humanity" that he would be working on with OpenAI, OpenAI has scrubbed all mention of Ive from its website. The artificial intelligence company is buying Ive's startup, called io,...

Amazon CEO to Staff: AI Will Take Some of Your Jobs

Those who embrace the change can 'help us reinvent the company,' says Andy Jassy

(Newser) - Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the US, has warned employees could lose their jobs as the company embraces artificial intelligence. Over the next few years, the company expects to "reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," President...

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