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The clean energy bottleneck isn't technology—it's market design
The transition to clean energy is underway, but major structural obstacles are slowing it down. Wind and solar power accounted for a record 17% of electricity generated by U.S. utilities last year. However, fossil fuels still ...
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Require satellite checks before approving AI data centers, researchers urge
Satellite data could help governments decide where to build the data centers behind the growth of AI by showing where renewable power, water and land are available and where drought and climate risks are highest, according ...
Oct 1, 2026
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Five technology providers dominate infrastructure supporting nonconsensual AI 'deepfake pornography'
For the first time, researchers have identified and named key players facilitating the growing problem of AI-generated explicit sexual imagery online. The study "The Backbone of Abuse" has been published in the Journal of ...
Sep 30, 2026
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AI is reshaping the workplace, but not replacing human judgment
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the workplace, new research shows that human capabilities such as creativity, analytical thinking and systems thinking remain critical and are expected to remain important in ...
Sep 29, 2026
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AMD buys firm founded by AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that it has acquired World Labs, an artificial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li, one of the field's most prominent researchers and sometimes referred to as "The ...
Sep 29, 2026
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AI driving up innovation investment: UN
Artificial intelligence is fueling a rebound in investment in innovation, with corporate research and development spending reaching record highs, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Sep 29, 2026
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Greater job security can make inventors less creative
When Apple recently presented its (rather pricey) new folding phone, one of the questions hovering over the launch—and in particular its new CEO, John Ternus—was whether the technology giant can recover its famously innovative ...
Sep 28, 2026
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Japanese anime actor fights TikTok over AI voice cloning
A high-profile Japanese anime voice actor has taken TikTok to court over videos he says feature an artificial intelligence clone of his "lustrous" baritone, with a verdict due Wednesday.
Sep 27, 2026
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TikTok agrees to teen limits in US settlement following Meta
TikTok on Friday agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact time limits and other restrictions for teen users, avoiding a trial with a settlement modeled on Instagram owner Meta's recent agreement with U.S. states.
Sep 26, 2026
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Jury finds Meta liable in Cambridge Analytica case
A jury in New Mexico on Friday found that Facebook's parent company, Meta, deceived users about privacy protections in a case linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, U.S. media reported.
Sep 26, 2026
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US court sides with Pentagon in Anthropic AI ban
A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the Pentagon's decision to exclude Anthropic from its supply chain after the AI startup refused to remove certain safeguards on its Claude model.
Sep 26, 2026
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Meta shares soar after launch of Muse AI
Meta shares bounced back to their summer 2025 highs this week, riding a wave of investor excitement about Muse, the social media giant's AI agent, which presents an opportunity to generate revenue beyond advertising.
Sep 25, 2026
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When internet-famous superstars take sick days, it's a mixed blessing for Big Tech
If you're not a fan of the video game Fortnite or a longtime user of the livestreaming platform Twitch, the name Ninja is likely new to you. Offline, he goes by Richard Tyler Blevins. But within the gameplay-streaming subculture, ...
Sep 25, 2026
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Computer system models binocular vision to improve print ads automatically
A computer-based method for evaluating and improving print advertisements by modeling how human binocular vision responds to images is discussed in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining.
Sep 25, 2026
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First US trial against TikTok to open Monday
TikTok goes on trial Monday in Alabama, accused by the state of misleading parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content. It is the first case against the platform to go before a U.S. jury.
Sep 25, 2026
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As the coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job market
Computer science student Jack Zemke was getting nowhere despite sending out hundreds of job applications that mostly disappeared into the void—ignored.
Sep 24, 2026
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AI is finding chart success in Christian, gospel and country music
In the wake of the U.S. Screen Actors Guild strike over AI protections and U.K. musicians' silent album protesting proposed changes to copyright law, more than a dozen AI-produced tracks have appeared on the Billboard charts ...
Sep 23, 2026
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Meta acts against 3.7 million scammers' accounts with Singapore police help
Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by Singapore police, the company said Wednesday.
Sep 23, 2026
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How Google Discover turns online activity into a personalized content feed
If you're one of Google Discover's millions of daily users, you've doubtless come across all manner of content without actively searching for it. A Spanish user, for instance, might see headlines promising to reveal the secret ...
Sep 23, 2026
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Apple's new watches are always listening
The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand and write up summaries of everything they heard.
Sep 22, 2026
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Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday.
Sep 21, 2026
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Oversight Board blasts 'inadequate' Meta safeguards for AI deepfakes
Meta on Thursday moved to remove AI-generated videos targeting two women, including a British politician, after the tech giant's Oversight Board blasted its "fundamentally inadequate" safeguards against proliferating deepfakes.
Sep 18, 2026
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NYT alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft
OpenAI committed "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" when it used millions of news articles to train its artificial intelligence models, The New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed Thursday.
Sep 18, 2026
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AI doomsday warnings unlikely to slow IPOs, but questions linger
Anthropic is expected to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets with a blockbuster IPO later this year despite recent doomsday warnings, but questions remain about their business models and whether regulators should step ...
Sep 18, 2026
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US Senate crypto bill collapses amid partisan deadlock
A push for landmark U.S. cryptocurrency legislation collapsed on Tuesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to bridge months-old differences over ethics, banking and how the fast-growing industry should be ...
Sep 16, 2026
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