How New York Is Restricting Data Centers
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been aggressive in imposing a one-year moratorium on the centers. A state senator would go further.
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The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
Helen Toner, who served on OpenAI’s board, hopes the recent hack by that company’s models serves as a warning.
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content
The politician behind Texas’ conservative overhaul of higher education is now running a university system. Some say his effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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The SaaS Pricing Reset: What AI Agents Mean for Seats, Tokens, Outcomes, and Renewal Strategy
TL;DR AI agents are breaking the assumption that software cost should rise and fall with employee headcount. A single workflow may now combine premium user seats, an agent license, pooled credits, model tokens, API charges, and an outcome fee while the applications displaced by automation continue renewing in the background. CIOs should not respond by
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 as a Cloud Nervous System: A Practical Operating Model
TL;DR VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 is easier to understand when it is viewed as a coordinated feedback system rather than a collection of infrastructure products. VCF Operations provides awareness, NSX carries connectivity and enforces network policy, vSAN preserves workload state, VCF Automation converts governed intent into action, and vSphere supplies the execution substrate. The metaphor
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UK examines economic hit from loss of access to frontier AI models
Urgent assessment comes after Donald Trump blocked foreign national access to Anthropic’s Fable 5
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AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that
Recent cyber attacks reflect what the technology was trained to do but safeguards are falling short
The Most Dangerous Type of A.I. Company
Meta may be an example of one of the most dangerous types of A.I. companies — one that believes it’s building tools, when it’s actually building superintelligence. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss it on the “Hard Fork” podcast.