Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
Open the website of one explicit deepfake generator and you are presented with a menu of horrors. With just a...
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People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them
Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took the lectern at a city council meeting to...
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Requests Companies to Provide Information About "Commercial Big Data and Ad Tech" products that would...
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be "the year of the AI agents". It turned out that...
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley are raving about Anthropic's AI coding tools, Claude Codefor months. But recently the buzz feels like...
What Happens When a Chinese Battery Factory Comes to Town
At the end of the day, local residents may feel disconnected from these batteries, and from the green energy transition...
Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers Hume AIa startup was working on emotionally intelligent voice interfacesas...
The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
The US and China are, by many measures, archrivals in the field of artificial intelligencewith companies racing to outdo each...
Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal
Days to Micron broke ground on a $100 billion chip plant in New York state, a coalition of environmentalists, labor...
Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial
As Meta heads to be tried in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual...