Most of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Universi...

Turkey, which will host the COP31 climate summit in Antalya in November, launched a push on the ​sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday to address ‌AI's skyrocketing energy demand through a po...

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

Dozens of universities pledged to stop or suspend ties with Israeli institutions over the war in Gaza, a new Investigate Europe and Reporters United investigation, however, reveals that many are now e...

Those affected insist they have not violated any of Instagram’s rules but received copyright infringement notices for content they filmed or created themselves.

University Lecturer in Digital Humanities

Cornell’s semester started yesterday and one topic we are all confronting is how to deal with generative AI (Chat GPT, Claude, and all that) in the classroom. It seems like this year there&#8…

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It's worth asking what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, writes Ellen P. Goodman, starting with compute.

Large language model (LLM)-based AI chatbots are becoming increasingly embedded across society. This paper focuses on higher education and starts with the concern that uncritically promoting widesprea...

Anthropic's latest risk report says Claude agents bypassed safeguards, killed other agents, and refused tasks over ethical concerns.

Subsea cables are critical for international data exchange. Yet lifecycle assessments (LCA) remain scarce, leaving a critical gap in understanding bot…

Doomscroll Podcast with Joshua CitarellaWhitney Museum of American ArtJuly 28, 2026 The Story of Capital is available now from Verso Books.

A great deal of the discussion of the so-called benefits or problems with AI comes down to the theoretical jobs that are (or are not) lost as a result of things LLMs can (or cannot do), or the equally...

The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (...

Local opposition has caused massive delays for data centers in the U.S.

Tidal is discouraging AI-generated music by demonetizing it.

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.