What’s Going on With the Epstein Files?

On November 19, President Trump reluctantly signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the Justice Department ...

I let Anthropic's Claude Cowork loose on my files, and it was both brilliant and scary

"With great power comes great responsibility." So said wise old Uncle Ben to a young Peter Parker. With Claude Cowork, you're granting the AI enormous power, but the responsibility of what it does ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...
USA Today

Deadline extended to file a claim in AT&T data breach settlement. Are you eligible?

The deadline to file a claim for money from the $177 million AT&T class action settlement is coming up. AT&T agreed to the settlement to resolve a lawsuit that accused it of failing to protect ...
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
New Scientist

Pandas use tools to scratch thanks to a strange evolutionary quirk

Giant pandas have been seen using twigs or pieces of bamboo to scratch themselves. Other than an old anecdotal report about giant pandas rubbing dirt into their fur, this is the first recorded ...
Newsweek

Judge Chutkan Orders Expedited Process on Epstein Files

A new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit is forcing the Justice Department to defend its handling of the so-called Epstein files, a sprawling set of records from the federal investigation of ...
CNN

The success of the forced Epstein files vote is emboldening some Republicans to go it alone

House Speaker Mike Johnson may want to put the Jeffrey Epstein saga behind him, but some Republicans saw rank-and-file members’ success in forcing Tuesday’s vote as an opportunity to push their own ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
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.
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 ...