OpenAI will push Congress for AI "speed limits" after Tuesday's midterms and wants data centres renamed "compute campuses". Six in ten Americans don't want one nearby.
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A Jed Foundation survey of 5,560 US students found 57% turn to AI when sad or stressed. Some uses, such as AI companionship, were linked to worse mental health.
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Australia Plans to Keep AI Data Centres Out of Its Suburbs
Australia will reportedly ban new AI data centres near homes and drop a copyright plan that would have let AI firms train on creators' work without paying.
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Axiom says dozens of AI agents turned a 15,000-page maths proof into 43.1 million lines of computer-checked code in 24 days, and found 34 errors in the published record on the way.
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Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on AI build-out in a quarter and ended $9.1 billion short. Microsoft spent on a similar scale and kept $18.6 billion. Our…
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The Netherlands plans about 25,000 fewer civil service jobs by 2035 and says AI will help. Its own letter to parliament warns AI has never delivered…
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