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OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?

OpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday — the latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reach it has recorded since it began reporting on and disrupting such schemes. The influence operations used OpenAI models alongside "more traditional techniques and technologies...

A bipartisan group of dozens of lawmakers led by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is concerned over Google’s plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data to train its AI models. A letter from the group, sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Spirit CEO Dave Davis, took issue with a proposed $10...

This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani, a doctorate student and recent COMPASS Fellow hosted by EFF. Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents. Age-related restrictions are developing quickly around the world. While they differ radically across jurisdictions, in the past year, we’ve w...

Today is DAF Day! This event highlights the millions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) people have set up to make charitable donations and change the world. If you have a DAF, consider supporting EFF today. Decisions about your privacy, encryption, artificial intelligence, online speech, and digital security will determine whether technology empowers people or concentrates power in the hands of a few. A grant from your DAF to EFF supports our mission to ensure that technology remains a force for freedom, innovation, and human rights.     If you’ve never heard of a DAF, just think of it as a ban...

Exploring how lifecycle intelligence in the early stages of AI build-outs can help mitigate operational risk later down the line

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos chatbot was promoted in April as the most frighteningly effective hacking tool ever! Too dangerous for you, the public! The US government even banned Mythos for a couple of weeks! Mythos had found some actual bugs — at great expense, subsidised by Anthropic. You could have paid actual security researchers much less […]

On Monday, October 5th, 2026, AI Now Program Associate Aashna Agarwal testified before the New York City Council at a Committee of the Whole hearing on the concrete risks of AI acceleration. In her testimony, Aashna outlined three critical ways that AI companies’ capital interests conflict with safeguarding the public from the risks posed by […] The post AI Now’s Aashna Agarwal Testifies before NYC Council Committee of the Whole appeared first on AI Now Institute.

The risk of fire has increased dramatically as data centers grow in quantity and size

Rural Klickitat County has just 24,000 residents. Developers are eyeing it for up to six data centers drawing enough power for 6 million homes.

Energy Technology’s new episode examines Big Tech’s interest in geothermal, and the nascent sector’s need for oil and gas equipment and expertise.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — More than four hundred Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Sunday to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers.  In Walla Walla, where a $4.8 billion Amazon data center project is planned, the tension among opponents and local officials was palpable. “Some of you standing here today have been […]

"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.

Commenting on the UK government’s plans to enforce passport ID checks on social media Big Brother Watch’s Maya Thomas said: “Children deserve real online protections, not a sweeping surveillance scheme that has failed across the world and will introduce new risks to their safety.” “This is not a policy for children, but one that effects every […] The post Big Brother Watch on UK Government’s plans to enforce passport ID checks on social media appeared first on Big Brother Watch.

Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure, manufacturing, and science, and why its greatest impact may come when it intersects with other fields.  Step inside the newsroom with our MIT Technology Review editors for sharp analysis and unpublished insights from the team that researches…

This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming illustration of AI’s potential share of GDP that I’d argue did more to muddy the waters than actually telling anyone anything, mostly because its measurement, for whatever reason, covered 2025 to 2032, meaning that six out of

Today we have the Kat Jones interview on how APRS is very effectively fighting hyperscale data centres in Scotland! (Their secret: hit the planning process.) $5-and-up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this earlier this week. Here are the video and the podcast. [YouTube; podcast] The rough transcript is on YouTube, the […]

Don’t be fooled by Big Tech’s talking points to push data centers into our communities. Get the facts behind 8 big data center fictions. The post Mythbusting: AI Data Center Edition appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

Labor, environmental, community organizations examine the costs and impacts of data centers The post 100+ Groups Demand Extended Public Participation in Data Center Development appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in reality, attempts by AI companies to set their own standards. The post How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business appeared first on AI Now Institute.