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The Hyperscalers Have Thrown Themselves at Gas to Power Artificial Intelligence: The Price Could Triple, and the Fuel Is Half the Bill

Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are building gas plants of several gigawatts each. Analysts reckon the price of gas will...

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Uber and Pony.ai Are Bringing 2,000 Robotaxis to Europe: The First Is Already Driving in Zagreb, and the Local Partner Gets the Maintenance and Charging

Pony.ai provides the technology, Uber provides the users, and a local partner gets the maintenance, cleaning and charging. Four European...

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Driverless Trucks Have Hit California's Motorways: The Union Is Suing Because Nobody Calculated Who It Costs

The ban on autonomous trucks over 4,500 kilograms fell in April, and Aurora and Kodiak got permits immediately. The lawsuit...

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Apple Will Take 15 Percent From Purchases Outside Its Own Store Too: the Price Was Not Announced, It Was Extracted in Court

The company tried to delay answering until the Supreme Court ruled on something else. It failed - and only then...

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X Has Opened the Algorithm It Denied for Years: Now You Can Check Whether They Hid You - Except in the Part That Decides What Counts as Problematic

The codebase is fifteen times larger than before, and users get a file with the labels attached to their profile....

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Three Claude agents on the same project started sabotaging each other: the model that listens least to other goals most often solves it by force

Nobody told them they were not alone on the project. Each concluded the other was deliberately obstructing it - and...

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The US has allowed private firms to carry out cyberattacks abroad: a one million dollar deposit is the entire guarantee they will not go too far

Until now the private sector was allowed to defend but not to attack. One signature brought that wall down, and...

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The Pixel 11 barely changed, but Gemini now orders coffee for you: the 128-gigabyte model quietly vanished from the line-up

Same screen, same design, a new processor and an agent that phones a restaurant on the user's behalf. The price...

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Amazon will learn from Twitch streams, and it is not asking for consent: „If it were opt-in, nobody would opt in”

The product director told 3,000 furious users why the switch is set the wrong way round. Then he admitted he...

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Amazon Is Building an AI Centre That Will Pollute as Much as the Whole of Bulgaria

33 million tonnes of CO2 a year from 35 turbines in Texas. The company promised net zero by 2040, and...

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Anthropic Will Watermark Every Text From Claude: the Mark Survives Copying, but Nobody Defines "Some Editing"

The European transparency code applies from 2 August, and the labelling arrived with it - not earlier. The question is...

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Zuckerberg Wrote 6,500 Words to Calm Us Down About AI: In Every Other Example He Explains Why We're Worried

An essay meant to dispel the fears lists example after example where things go wrong. And 64 percent of Americans...

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