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Matt O’Brien

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Associated Press technology reporter

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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Allbirds said the magic initials (AI? or maybe GPUaaS?) and saw its stock grow 582% today, but it will need a lot more $ to build a real computing infrastructure business apnews.com/article/allb...
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Allbirds, a former Wall Street darling fallen on hard times, looks to AI for its future
Allbirds, the eco-friendly shoe brand that was once a Wall Street darling and found its way onto the feet of tech CEOs and movie stars, is pivoting to artificial intelligence.
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
Israel’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon.
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Ted Nesi @tednesi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The situation at Brown is very serious. We have multiple crews on scene and are continuously updating this story. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Read this investigation by @byrontau.bsky.social now: apnews.com/article/immi...
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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.
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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 and @matthewdalyap.bsky.social apnews.com/article/nati...
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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...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Coming to Cheyenne: An AI data center that will require more electricity than what's needed to power all Wyoming homes apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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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.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 14/05/2025
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 ...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Studio Ghibli has declined to comment apnews.com/article/stud...
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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...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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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 ...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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 apnews.com/article/open...
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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...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I talked with the mayor of Abilene, Texas, future home of The Stargate Project apnews.com/article/star...
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a pyramid in the middle of a desert with a spiral on it
ALT: a pyramid in the middle of a desert with a spiral on it
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump repealed Biden's signature AI executive order this week, though much of its work was already done apnews.com/article/trum...
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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...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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 apnews.com/article/immi...
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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.
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Heartbreaking firsthand account from colleague in Altadena apnews.com/article/cali...
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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.
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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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 ...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Traveled to Rhode, Ireland (not to be confused with Rhode Iceland) to tell this story about the tech industry's global data center development apnews.com/article/ai-d...
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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.
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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.
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Sarah Parvini | سارا @sarahparvini.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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: apnews.com/article/arti...
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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...
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
AP's @marthabellisle.bsky.social went to talk to people in Issaquah about the powerful bomb cyclone storm and found ... Ben Gibbard apnews.com/video/ben-gi...
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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)
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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.
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Sarah Parvini | سارا @sarahparvini.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey! We have a starter pack too! Follow AP reporters here: go.bsky.app/M7Xo4gK
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Matt O’Brien @mattoyeah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Training an AI model takes a lot of GPUs. Then comes another stage: AI inference. Does that need its own chips too? apnews.com/article/ai-i...
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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.
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