Category: 3. Tech

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Why it’s so hard to make welfare AI fair

There are plenty of stories about AI that’s caused harm…

This rock-melting drilling technology from the geothermal startup Quaise is certainly unconventional. The company hopes it’s the key to unlocking geothermal energy and making it feasible anywhere.

Geothermal power tends to work best in those…

3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier.

You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of that reputation comes from the amount of electricity it takes to train these giant models, though giant models only get trained every so…

Today’s world runs on digital computers, but there was a time when people…

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.

Thousands of…

“Then one day this year,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations of models introduced as far back as 2022 by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, and xAI—15 in all—on how they answered…

If you have a lot of photos, videos, and other files to back up on your Apple…

Hacking doesn’t work the way it does in the movies, with heroes typing…

Nearly three in four American teenagers have used AI companions, with more than half qualifying as regular users despite growing safety concerns about these virtual relationships, according to a new survey released Wednesday.

AI companions –…