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Judge rules xAI must face the NAACP's pollution lawsuit over its Memphis turbines
The company argued its gas turbines were mobile and exempt from permits. The court said the power plant feeding its data center is not.
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A pet-portrait app was a front: 400+ disguised apps hid an AI deepfake abuse service
Researchers traced a network of harmless-looking apps that switched to sexual deepfake tools for some users. Apple and Google pulled them after a year on their stores.
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Data centers are unpopular, so OpenAI may try calling them 'AI compute campuses'
Ahead of the midterms, OpenAI's policy chief floated a rebrand along with AI 'speed limits' and global standards, per Axios.
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One robots.txt line to block AI training: Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic sign on
A proposed extension to the Robots Exclusion Protocol would let sites refuse every generative-AI training crawler at once. It is headed to the IETF.