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The AI Backlash Has Become So Intense CEOs Are Traveling With Armed Guards
The race to dominate artificial intelligence has created some of the world’s most valuable companies, but it has also turned their executives into unexpected targets. Just a few years ago, Silicon Valley CEOs rarely needed personal protection beyond the occasional event security team. Today, armed bodyguards, secure transportation, and expanded security budgets are becoming increasingly…
LAPD Drops Flock Safety Contract Following Alarming Audit Of False Vehicle Stops
The Los Angeles Police Department has never been shy about embracing new surveillance technology. Over the years, the force has adopted everything from drones and predictive policing software to sophisticated data platforms that have sparked repeated debates over privacy and civil liberties. That history makes its latest decision particularly striking. After nearly three years of…
This New York School Is Letting a Humanoid Robot Teach Students, But There’s One Rule It Can’t Break
The idea of a robot standing at the front of a classroom has long belonged to science fiction. For decades, futuristic movies imagined students learning from intelligent machines instead of human teachers. That vision now appears to be edging closer to reality after a school district in upstate New York announced plans to introduce a…
New York Just Became the First State to Halt Data Center Construction
Behind every AI search, cloud service and digital tool is a physical building filled with servers that consume enormous amounts of electricity and water. As companies race to build more of these facilities, New York has become the first state to impose a statewide pause on new hyperscale data centers. The move is not a…
Scientists Say Intelligent Aliens May Never Need Physical Bodies
For decades, science fiction has trained us to imagine extraterrestrials as creatures with eyes, limbs, and faces that are at least vaguely familiar. Even the strangest movie aliens usually share one assumption with humans. They exist inside bodies. A growing philosophical argument suggests that assumption could be one of the biggest mistakes we’ve ever made.…
Scientists Discover Water May Have Two Hidden Forms
Water seems so ordinary that most of us rarely give it a second thought. It fills our oceans, falls from the sky, flows through our bodies, and supports every known form of life on Earth. Yet despite centuries of scientific research, this familiar liquid continues to surprise researchers in ways few people would expect. Now,…
AI Data Centers Are Creating Pollution on a Nearly Incomprehensible Scale
Every AI prompt begins with a few taps on a screen, but the answer can depend on warehouses filled with servers, enormous volumes of water, and power plants capable of supplying entire cities. As demand for artificial intelligence surges, researchers warn that its hidden environmental footprint could soon rival millions of cars, while communities in…
New Research Reveals Why Replacing Workers With AI Is Failing
For the past two years, artificial intelligence has been sold as the biggest workplace revolution since the internet. Executives promised leaner operations, lower costs, and a future where software could perform the work of thousands of employees. Across Silicon Valley and beyond, companies responded by trimming their payrolls while pouring billions into AI. Now, a…
AI Data Centers Face Growing Backlash as 14 States Push to Slow Their Expansion
The artificial intelligence boom has sparked one of the biggest infrastructure races in modern history, with tech giants investing billions of dollars in massive data centers to power everything from AI chatbots to cloud computing and online services. These sprawling facilities have become the backbone of the digital economy, but their rapid expansion is now…
DoorDash Robot Crashes Active SWAT Operation After Ignoring Police Orders
A food delivery is usually the most ordinary part of someone’s day. A few taps on an app, a short wait, and a meal arrives at the front door. That familiar routine took a bizarre turn in Chandler, Arizona, when a small autonomous DoorDash robot rolled directly into the middle of an active SWAT operation.…