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Big Bill's AI Regulatory Ban Was Shot Down 99-1

Last-ditch GOP effort to save provision failed

(Newser) - A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision from the legislation...

Something's Missing at Wimbledon
Something's
Missing at
Wimbledon
Jul 1, 2025 12:23 PM CDT

Something's Missing at Wimbledon

Transition from line judges not quite as seamless as All England Club might've hoped

(Newser) - Protests at this year's steamy Wimbledon have failed to stop the transition from 300 line judges to AI-driven electronic line-calling, and players seem to have accepted the change, previously announced by the All England Club, with only minor grumblings. With artificial intelligence now analyzing footage from up to 18...

Amazon Deploys Its Millionth Robot
Amazon Deploys
Its Millionth Robot
Jul 1, 2025 3:25 AM CDT

Amazon Deploys Its Millionth Robot

Company is on track for robot workers to outnumber humans

(Newser) - Amazon is on track to have more robots than humans working in its warehouses, with over a million robots now deployed—nearly matching its human workforce. Robots now assist with or handle tasks like picking, packaging, and sorting in about 75% of Amazon's global deliveries, according to the...

College Grads Find the Current Job Market 'Stings'

It's the toughest job market for young adults in more than a decade; AI may be playing a role

(Newser) - While completing a master's degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn't found a job in the industry that surrounds her. "It stings a little bit," she...

Zuckerberg's 'List' Has Silicon Valley Buzzing

Meta chief is reportedly trying to poach top AI engineers with $100M salaries

(Newser) - In Silicon Valley, it's known as "The List," reports the Wall Street Journal . Compiled by Mark Zuckerberg over the last several months, this list includes the names of the leading engineers and researchers in artificial intelligence—and Zuckerberg is reportedly trying to recruit them all. The story...

AI Data Centers Will Need a Lot More Power Going Forward

Electricity demand will jump 30 times by 2035, per Deloitte report

(Newser) - As AI data centers rapidly multiply, their electricity needs are set to soar, posing major challenges for power grids, industry partnerships, and infrastructure investment, according to a new Deloitte report cited by Quartz . The firm warns that the electricity demand from AI data centers is expected to jump dramatically—...

Judge Tosses Authors' Suit Without Absolving Meta on AI

Ruling suggests companies have been using protected materials

(Newser) - A federal judge sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit on Wednesday that was brought by authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco found that the group of 13...

iPhone Designer to Create 'Amazing Products' for OpenAI
OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration
Comes Under Fire
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Jun 24, 2025 2:45 AM CDT

OpenAI-Jony Ive Collaboration Comes Under Fire

A startup has filed a trademark infringement complaint

(Newser) - Little more than a month after Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, teased the "amazing products that elevate humanity" that he would be working on with OpenAI, OpenAI has scrubbed all mention of Ive from its website. The artificial intelligence company is buying Ive's startup, called io,...

Music Streaming Service Makes Big Move Against AI

Paris-based Deezer will now flag albums with songs generated by artificial intelligence

(Newser) - Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters. Deezer, based in Paris, is grappling with a surge in music on its platform created using artificial intelligence tools it says are being wielded to earn royalties fraudulently....

Amazon CEO to Staff: AI Will Take Some of Your Jobs

Those who embrace the change can 'help us reinvent the company,' says Andy Jassy

(Newser) - Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the US, has warned employees could lose their jobs as the company embraces artificial intelligence. Over the next few years, the company expects to "reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," President...

Meta Is Trying to Poach OpenAI's 'Best' With $100M Offers

At least according to OpenAI chief Sam Altman, who says his top staffers are so far staying loyal

(Newser) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Meta is trying to lure his team members with substantial offers, including $100 million signing bonuses. The push comes as Meta invests heavily in artificial intelligence, recently spending $14 billion to acquire a major stake in the Scale AI startup. Despite the offers, Altman...

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
After 19 Years of Trying,
She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI
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Jun 14, 2025 5:05 PM CDT

After 19 Years of Trying, She's Pregnant—Thanks to AI

New STAR technology detects scarce sperm unnoticed by embryologists

(Newser) - After nearly two decades of unsuccessful attempts to start a family, a couple at Columbia University Fertility Center has become the first to get pregnant thanks to a groundbreaking AI system designed to find even the rarest sperm. The couple, identified as 38-year-old Rosie and her husband, had spent...

Gabbard: AI Checked JFK Files for Secrets Before Release

The technology is helping to speed up intelligence work, director says

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. Speaking at a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information, the AP reports. The...

Disney, Universal Sue 'Bottomless Pit of Plagiarism'

Lawsuit says AI company Midjourney refused requests to stop using copyrighted material

(Newser) - "Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism," Disney and Universal say in a landmark copyright-infringement lawsuit against the AI image generator. Artists and authors, among others, have sued AI companies that scrape content from the internet and elsewhere to train their software, but...

Meta Having Trouble Combating 'Nudify' Tools

CBS News investigation finds ads for the tools across Instagram, Facebook, Threads

(Newser) - Meta says it has removed various ads for AI tools offering to create sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of real people. A CBS News investigation found dozens of ads for the apps on Instagram's Stories feature and estimated there were "hundreds" across Meta's platforms. Some advertised...

GOP Changes Provision on AI Regulation by States

10-year prohibition has hit opposition in both parties

(Newser) - Senate Republicans have made changes to their party's sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade. In legislative text unveiled Thursday night, Senate Republicans proposed denying states federal funding for broadband projects if they regulate AI....

Dead Sea Scrolls Are Older Than We Knew
Dead Sea Scrolls Are
Older Than We Knew
NEW STUDY
Jun 5, 2025 7:16 AM CDT

Dead Sea Scrolls Are Older Than We Knew

AI-assisted study dates texts to the time of the original Bible authors

(Newser) - Some of the Dead Sea scrolls are up to a century older than previously believed, with several as old as original books from the Bible, according to researchers helped by artificial intelligence . The ancient scrolls, discovered in caves on the north shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank...

Anthropic Trained Chatbot With Reddit Comments, Lawsuit Says

AI company has argued before it was using others' material legally

(Newser) - The social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of illegally "scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit's content despite being asked not to do so, and "...

Meta Goes Nuclear to Juice Up Its AI
AI Is Driving Big Tech Nuclear
Jun 4, 2025 6:01 AM CDT

AI Is Driving Big Tech Nuclear

Meta is latest company to secure nuclear power to meet surging artificial-intelligence demands

(Newser) - Meta has cut a 20-year deal to secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial intelligence and other computing needs at Facebook's parent company. The investment with Meta will also expand the output of a Constellation Energy nuclear plant in Illinois. The agreement announced Tuesday is just...

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College
ChatGPT Already
Has Upended College
longform
Jun 1, 2025 5:00 PM CDT

ChatGPT Already Has Upended College

New York finds cheating with artificial intelligence tools is rampant, not going away

(Newser) - When artificial intelligence began to take hold a scant few years ago, one of the worries was that college students might use it to cheat. So have they? The headline of a New York piece on the subject provides a hint: "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College."...

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