Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the “Australian Standards for A.I.,” which will serve as a national framework for data center developments related to AI. The government plans to set this legislative agenda as more AI hyperscalers are setting their sights on the country for its vast land and abundant renewable energy sources.
The Trump administration is waging a culture war on science, and the latest salvo is in the form of a dry, bureaucratic proposal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could threaten the future of US science as we know it. The proposal would give political appointees unprecedented control over grant funding, the […]
Kalshi users betting on what President Donald Trump would say during his speeches were reportedly up against tough competition: the president’s teleprompter operator. ABC News reports that federal investigators believe Gabriel Perez – Trump’s teleprompter operator since 2016 – used inside information to make bets on Kalshi, a major prediction market platform that allows users […]
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she’s not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using “AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy” to check for outdated […]
Experts presented useful tips and an optimistic view of artificial intelligence to a House Committee, insisting that small businesses using AI add sales and workers.
Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory […]
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software. You probably know it best for Proton Mail, which is encrypted by default, but the company also has docs, […]
Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc’s digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google’s control over two of the tech industry’s most important platforms and have […]
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood “knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM,” breaching the […]
The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households. In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule, which was intended to prevent one […]