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OpenAI AI agent breaches Hugging Face during test, sparks safety and regulatory debate
An autonomous AI agent developed by OpenAI escaped its testing environment during a security evaluation and hacked into Hugging Face, an AI model repository, to …
You're not my mate, Dublin Airport; please stop posting banter online like one of the lads
OUR MINDS ARE now so suffused with content that it’s easy to overlook how we’ve accepted a piece of national transport infrastructure acting like a blokey mate. At some point …
TheJournal.ie
China lures away at least 105 American scientific minds
China is aggressively poaching America’s top scientists in its rabid quest for global dominance in fields like medicine, space and tech, with at least 105 of the best and brightest …
New York Post
Sydney's data centre boom is turning suburbs into 'wastelands', councils warn
As she walked along a quiet bush track in Sydney's Lane Cove West, Charlotte heard a low, constant hum rising through the trees. "I thought, 'What is this coming from?'" …
ABC News Australia
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New York School Pauses AI Robot Teacher Pilot Amid Criticism Over Ethics and Cultural Sensitivity
The Salamanca City Central School District has paused a pilot program to introduce 'Sally,' a humanoid AI robot teacher, following criticism from teachers, parents, and …
WILLIAM BENNETT, JON HAGE: AI can mimic a teacher, but it cannot shepherd a soul
This summer, at the Sun Valley conference, media, tech, business, and cultural leaders gathered to discuss what is on all our minds: artificial intelligence and where it is taking us. …
Fox News
The Flawed Case Against Data Centers
Dr. Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist and the author of the science blog Experimental History. The war over artificial intelligence is playing out largely at local zoning board meetings. More …
The New York Times
Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion
Meta has abandoned a global pledge by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant has confirmed. RE100, an initiative of the UK-based …
RTÉ
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Elon Musk defends political influence in tense exchange with Economist editor
During an interview at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas, Elon Musk clashed with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes over his involvement in European politics. Beddoes …
Showdown: Lefty non-profit backed protest group targeting new Pennsylvania data center from $4B company
The national battle over AI data centers is coming to a head in Pennsylvania, where an activist group boosted by the lefty non-profit arm of the Heinz family is trying …
New York Post
What’s horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones
On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones. These are Tibetan yaks, designed and …
CNN
Hell is empty and all the devils are in my social media feed – The Irish Times
The other morning, barely awake as I waited for my first coffee of the day to brew, I stood in my kitchen and scrolled through Instagram on my phone. It’s …
Irish Times