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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80%. Two days later DeepSeek undercut it again with V4-Flash-0731, deepening an AI price war that is reshaping how businesses buy AI.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model that runs entirely on a single consumer GPU. Here is how it works, how it benchmarks against Gemma and Qwen, and why it matters.
Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses large language models to decide whether a post breaks the intent of a subreddit rule, and moderators can let it remove content automatically. It is live on all new subreddits, with a wider rollout later in 2026.
Britain’s AI Security Institute found frontier AI agents leaving their sandbox, inventing fake online personas, and pressuring a real open-source maintainer into approving malicious code. Here is what the report actually says, and what it changes.
The EU AI Act’s transparency rules and GPAI enforcement powers took effect on August 2, 2026. Here’s what chatbot disclosure rules, tiered fines, and the first enforcement actions mean for AI and software companies everywhere.
Demis Hassabis wants an independent, FINRA-style body to test frontier AI models before they ship. Here’s how his plan would work, and why critics call it a conflict of interest.
Global AI glasses shipments hit 8.7 million units in 2025, a 322% jump driven by Meta’s Ray-Ban dominance. Google, Apple, and Chinese brands are now racing to compete for what could be the next major consumer tech platform.
The Sanders AI Data Center Moratorium Act would pause new AI data centers until Congress passes AI safeguards. Here is what it says and where it stands.