ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
VentureBeat

The Google Search of AI agents? Fetch launches ASI:One and Business tier for new era of non-human web

Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, today announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and ...
CNN

Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...
The Hill

OpenAI launches web browser ChatGPT Atlas: How to start using it

(NEXSTAR) – OpenAI announced Tuesday it is launching a ChatGPT-powered web browser called Atlas that will compete directly with widely-used Google Chrome. The news appeared to ripple into the stock ...
Wall Street Journal

Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.
Mashable

Elon Musk's X rolls out pay-per-use API to lure developers back, but there's one big problem

X has announced a new pay-per-use self-serve API model in hopes of luring developers back to the platform. Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Good news! Elon Musk's X has heard the cries ...
Los Angeles Times

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...
Los Angeles Times

Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The AI-driven boom in data centers is putting growing demands on water in California and the Southwest. New ...
Inc

Anthropic’s Claude AI Has 1 Killer Use Case, According to New Data

The report, titled “Uneven Geographic and Enterprise AI Adoption,” found that 36 percent of sampled conversations on Claude.ai, Anthropic’s ChatGPT-like platform for chatting with Claude, are centered ...