The US data center industry has warned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on renewable energy could slow its growth and undermine Washington’s goal to win the global artificial intelligence race. Renewables have become a flashpoint since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, with his administration suspending clean energy developments on federal land, pausing federal loans,...
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(BPRW) Two Classrooms in Brevard County win prestigious STEM Classroom Makeover Grants
(Black PR Wire) Melbourne, Fla. – Hundreds of local students will have new opportunities to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) announces a major expansion of its Classroom Makeove…
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(BPRW) Healing America’s Healthcare Crisis: Lessons from Mountain Medicine Woman Mary Hayden
(Black PR Wire) As headlines warn of deepening fault lines in America’s healthcare infrastructure, National Women’s Health Week (May 12–18) calls us to recognize the impactful force of women who have long stood in the breach—the ca…
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OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control
The company will become a public benefit corporation and the nonprofit that has controlled it will be its largest shareholder.
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Elon Musk, His 16-Foot Wall and the Feud With His Texas Neighbors
Residents of an upscale enclave outside Austin, Texas, learned the hard way what it’s like when a multibillionaire moves into the mansion next door. Some of them have started a ruckus over it.
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A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
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Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee
A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source AI image generation tool. Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening...
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Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked
A messaging service used by former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has temporarily shut down while the company investigates an apparent hack. The messaging app is used to access and archive Signal messages, but is not made by Signal itself. 404 Media reported yesterday that a hacker stole data “from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company...
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OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure
On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it will remain under the control of its founding nonprofit board, scrapping its controversial plan to split off its commercial operations as a for-profit company after mounting pressure from critics. In an official OpenAI blog post announcing the latest restructuring decision, CEO Sam Altman wrote: “We made the decision for...
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Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack
Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious code inside the browsers of visitors, where it can steal payment card information and other sensitive data, security researchers said Monday. The infections are the result of a supply-chain attack that compromised at least three...