AI & Society

Together AI, which serves open-source artificial intelligence models, announced a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass U.S. backlash over data centers.

Flock’s nationwide A.I. camera network tracks millions of vehicles. Privacy advocates argue that this subjects the public to unregulated mass surveillance.

What does Europe lose if advanced AI adoption stays at current levels? A report commissioned by US tech giant Amazon Web Services finds that skills shortages and regulatory uncertainty are hindering AI adoption in Europe and 38% of European startups are looking to move abroad. Charles Pellegrin talks to Sasha Rubel, AWS’s head of generative AI

Three fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?

Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.

Head of world’s financial stability watchdog urges countries to take steps to control the release of new frontier models

Wall Street and Silicon Valley have high hopes for AI that interacts with the real world. But unions and economists warn of its effects on jobs and wages

Analysts say large paper windfalls on investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have muddied the tech sector’s earnings metrics

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, keeping

It can be useful to see reality as malleable.