Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tag

Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 06, 2026 36 Comments

Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction....

Where AI is the Tool, Humans are the Variable

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 01, 2026 7 Comments

The week at AI: a $500 Million mistake, use in American war games, and the focus of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”. ...

Free Speech Group Warns UC-Berkeley After Student Activists Shout Down Google AI Chief

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 24, 2026 3 Comments

"This sends the message that one can easily thwart campus discourse they dislike simply by disrupting it."...

Instructure Confirms Major Hack Affecting Canvas Users Across Thousands of Schools

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 09, 2026 14 Comments

Perhaps it is time to return to the Blue Book....

Stanford Study Finds AI Grading Systems Give More Praise to Black, Female Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 06, 2026 5 Comments

"Feedback given to white students, on the other hand, was more content-related."...

UC-Berkeley Activists Shut Down Speech by Google AI Chief, Claiming Tech Aids Palestinian ‘Genocide’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 03, 2026 5 Comments

"a group of about 20 activists taking part in the campus May Day demonstration decided to also crash the talk nearly 40 minutes after it had started"...

Bixonimania: How AI Turned a Joke Diagnosis into “Peer‑Reviewed” Medicine

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2026 26 Comments

Swedish researchers created a fake eye disease to see whether AI chatbots would repeat it as if it were real. The results were anything but funny....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ix9IkwjbUg

Teacher Unions Sounding Alarm Over New AI-Driven Classroom Model

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 06, 2026 8 Comments

"says its students learn twice as fast"...

Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 31, 2026 22 Comments

Residents report vibrating homes, sleepless nights, and unhappy children and pets....

Amazon Implements 90-Day Code Safety Reset after AI-Related Incidents with “High Blast Radius”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 14, 2026 16 Comments

A series of incidents at Amazon highlights the gap between what generative AI can do and what it should be trusted to do....

Hackers Reportedly ‘Jailbroke’ Anthropic’s Chatbot, Stole Data From Mexico’s Government

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 02, 2026 29 Comments

It is chilling what even modestly skilled hackers can achieve with chatbots providing basic scripting....

Trump Orders Government-Wide Break With Anthropic in High-Stakes AI Defense Clash

Posted by Ben Smith on February 28, 2026 11 Comments

"I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology."...

Software Company Palantir Flees Colorado for Florida

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 18, 2026 29 Comments

In December 2025, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce's Colorado Scorecard for 2025 received bad news when 45% of the business leaders who participated said they planned "to invest out of state."...