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Associated Press technology reporter
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Ted Nesi
about 1 month ago
The situation at Brown is very serious. We have multiple crews on scene and are continuously updating this story.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
2 months ago
Read this investigation by
@byrontau.bsky.social
now:
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
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A look at how Trump's AI data center expansion plan takes aim at the 55-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), by
@melinawalling.bsky.social
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@matthewdalyap.bsky.social
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With AI plan, Trump keeps chipping away at a foundational environmental law
When big infrastructure projects spring up, one crucial law — the National Environmental Policy Act — has for decades been a key way the government has required powerful industry interests to consider...
https://apnews.com/article/national-environmental-policy-act-ai-data-centers-a1efa3f9a8b2022ded585fd8f1524cce
6 months ago
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Coming to Cheyenne: An AI data center that will require more electricity than what's needed to power all Wyoming homes
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Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined
A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-center-electricity-wyoming-cheyenne-44da7974e2d942acd8bf003ebe2e855a
6 months ago
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Michelle R. Smith
8 months ago
Trump's surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
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Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms ...
https://apnews.com/article/means-trump-surgeon-general-mushrooms-psychedelic-drugs-72c22ed077409b4bb865214e7ef304a8
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Studio Ghibli has declined to comment
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ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns
Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet m...
https://apnews.com/article/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-images-hayao-miyazaki-openai-0f4cb487ec3042dd5b43ad47879b91f4
10 months ago
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21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c
11 months ago
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OpenAI’s request for proposals makes no mention of whether it intends to prioritize renewable energy sources such as wind or solar to power the data centers, but a developer of the West Texas project says it will be heavily reliant on wind, with a gas-powered backup
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OpenAI looks across US for sites to build its Trump-backed Stargate AI data centers
OpenAI is scouring the U.S. for sites to build a network of huge data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states t...
https://apnews.com/article/openai-stargate-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-4fc80ae87304c99a5189c05ca967e0d2
12 months ago
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I talked with the mayor of Abilene, Texas, future home of The Stargate Project
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12 months ago
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Trump repealed Biden's signature AI executive order this week, though much of its work was already done
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Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety in attempt to diverge from his predecessor
Hours after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump made a symbolic mark on the future of artificial intelligence by repealing former President Joe Biden’s guardrails for the fast-develop...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-repeal-biden-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-18cb6e4ffd1ca87151d48c3a0e1ad7c1
12 months ago
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A fascinating story about U.S. immigration policy but also a reminder of why it's always useful to keep on top of Irish politics in case there's a pop quiz
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Some immigrants are already leaving the US in 'self-deportations' as Trump's threats loom
A Nicaraguan woman staying legally in the United States has chosen to leave because of concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-self-deportation-trump-0a8d8371cf7e22a5809db40ebbecf42d
about 1 year ago
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Heartbreaking firsthand account from colleague in Altadena
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He left his LA-area home to cover the wildfires. But the flames were barreling toward his front door
He left his Los Angeles-area home to cover the wildfires, but the flames were barreling toward his front door.
https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-house-burn-loss-bde3a056407fcd639fbf7cfdeb26ab8e
about 1 year ago
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Biden signs executive order aimed at growing AI infrastructure in the US
President Joe Biden has signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations like data centers can be built quickly ...
https://apnews.com/article/biden-white-house-ai-artificial-intelligence-7458d9d1bb537929c5dcfb5192695223
about 1 year ago
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Traveled to Rhode, Ireland (not to be confused with Rhode Iceland) to tell this story about the tech industry's global data center development
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Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they're consuming too much of its energy
Dozens of massive data centers are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-centers-ireland-6c0d63cbda3df740cd9bf2829ad62058
about 1 year ago
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Grateful to have had the chance to see Ustad Zakir Hussain when he came through Boston earlier this year
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Remembering the Prodigious, Trailblazing Legacy of Tabla Legend Zakir Hussain
Known to U.S. audiences for his work with George Harrison and the Dead, the late Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain had a much greater legacy.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/zakir-hussain-tabla-tribute-grateful-dead-1235199549/
about 1 year ago
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Matt O’Brien
Sarah Parvini | سارا
about 1 year ago
NEW from us: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance and AI tools help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled:
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Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them...
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-deportation-biden-trump-immigration-0a0c2387762a7342af5668660f0391b5
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AP's
@marthabellisle.bsky.social
went to talk to people in Issaquah about the powerful bomb cyclone storm and found ... Ben Gibbard
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Death Cab singer: Seattle-area storm damage a 'sight to behold'
Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard describes the destruction left by a powerful storm in the Seattle-area as a 'sight to behold' (AP video by Martha Bellisle)
https://apnews.com/video/ben-gibbard-seattle-natural-disasters-celebrity-af5f39da1746491caff9f24a4549e216
about 1 year ago
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Trump's promise to repeal Biden's AI executive order was the mostly unaddressed elephant in the room (a very nice room) in an international gathering of government-backed AI safety institutes this week in San Francisco's Presidio. With
@blanka.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/ai-s...
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US gathers allies to talk AI safety as Trump's vow to undo Biden's AI policy overshadows their work
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal President Joe Biden’s signature artificial intelligence policy when he returns to the White House for a second term.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-safety-summit-san-francisco-trump-biden-executive-order-0e7475371877c7fefbbf178759fe7ab7
about 1 year ago
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Matt O’Brien
Sarah Parvini | سارا
about 1 year ago
Hey! We have a starter pack too! Follow AP reporters here:
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Training an AI model takes a lot of GPUs. Then comes another stage: AI inference. Does that need its own chips too?
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Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products
Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-inference-chips-nvidia-dmatrix-corsair-groq-914b9a33faf865080eaf7d9ca4096de3
about 1 year ago
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