Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
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Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry
President Trump has become the semiconductor sector’s leading decision maker, from new fees on exports to China to a brief demand for a C.E.O.’s firing.
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Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
Corporate spending on artificial intelligence is surging as executives bank on major efficiency gains. So far, they report little effect to the bottom line.
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Elon Musk Threatens Lawsuit Against Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI
The billionaire said in posts on X that the consumer tech giant was violating antitrust laws by giving preferential treatment to OpenAI on the App Store.
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Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?
In June, headlines read like science fiction: AI models “blackmailing” engineers and “sabotaging” shutdown commands. Simulations of these events did occur in highly contrived testing scenarios designed to elicit these responses—OpenAI’s o3 model edited shutdown scripts to stay online, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 “threatened” to expose an engineer’s affair. But the sensational framing obscures...
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OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt
On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal during last week’s GPT-5 launch. The AI model now appears in the model picker for all paid ChatGPT users by default (including ChatGPT Plus accounts), marking a swift reversal after thousands of users complained about...
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(BPRW) The Return to Spelman: Where BGC Girls Code, Lead, and Belong
By Tiffany James (Black PR Wire) There’s something powerful about returning to a place that believes in you. That’s what made the first week of Black Girls Code’s 2025 Summer Camp in Atlanta feel so special. For the second year…
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Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era
Decades ago, designers etched microscopic doodles onto silicon chips to leave their marks. Now, techno-archaeologists search for the tiny fossils.
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A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion
The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant.
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Do Kwon, Crypto Founder Who Caused 2022 Market Crash, Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, capping a spectacular fall from grace.