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Elon Musk wants to build an AI satellite factory on the moon
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday evening that the company needed a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
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Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial
Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold tech companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants, Meta and YouTube.
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New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation online
Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation of New Mexico's consumer protection laws, a state prosecutor said Monday as a trial began over the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media.
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Social media ‘addicting the brains of children,’ plaintiff’s lawyer argues in landmark trial
Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google's YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products.
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Landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting children to their platforms begins
The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court began on Monday.
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With electricity bills rising, some states consider new data center laws
As Americans grow increasingly frustrated over their electricity bills, states are trying to keep the nation's growing number of data centers from causing higher energy costs for consumers.
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The dark side of AI weighs on the stock market
A washout in the stocks of software companies has been flowing through Wall Street this week, as investors realized the threat that artificial intelligence will displace businesses had arrived.
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Microsoft pledged to save water. In the AI era, It expects water use to soar.
In 2020, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, outlined an ambitious plan to conserve water at the company’s growing fleet of data centers that power the internet. He pledged to cut use, support wetland restoration projects and deploy new water-saving technologies.
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Some companies tie AI to layoffs, but the reality is more complicated
The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure about being laid off from Amazon last week is that it wasn’t a failure to get on board with the company’s artificial intelligence plans.
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why
About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region.
