EU Will Work on Setting Water Use Caps for Thirsty Data Centers
https://www.energyconnects.com/news/renewables/2025/may/eu-will-work-on-setting-water-use-caps-for-thirsty-data-centers/
#EU #Water #Datacenters
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The Real Fight Isn’t About AI—It’s About Control
#AI #Copyright
Avila Gets It: The Real Fight Isn’t About AI—It’s About Control
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AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
#AI #Energy
MIT Technology Review
AI’s energy impact is still small—but how we handle it is huge
The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy.
AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License
#OpenMDW #OpenSource #AI #Linux
LexBlog
AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License
For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source lic...
How did “openness” fall out of fashion?
#OpenSource #FreeCulture
TechnoLlama
How did “openness” fall out of fashion?
Something curious has been occurring in the world of digital rights. Openness, once one of the cornerstones of Internet culture, has lost its shine...
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
#AI #Copyright
Techdirt
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
For the last hundred years or so, the prevailing dogma has been that copyright is an unalloyed good, and that more of it is better. Whether that wa...
Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01463-8
#AI #LLM #Science #Research
China now more popular worldwide than the US
#China #USA #Politics
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return – POLITICO
Can China “Buy” America? Fifty Years Ago Last Week the Ford Administration Created the Government Body That Stops That From Happening.
#China #USA #Finance #Politics
Notes on the Crises
Can China “Buy” America? Fifty Years Ago Last Week the Ford Administration Created the Government Body That Stops That From Happening.
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I have ended up taking a lot longer to write up my biggest picture thoughts on the dollar than I initially expected. Partially this is b...
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
#AI #Copyright #Law
Copyright Lately
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
The Copyright Office released its AI fair use report a day before its leader was dismissed: the timing, the fallout, and what it all means.
What the hell are rare earth elements?
#RareEarths
What the hell are rare earth elements?
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
#Meta #Metaverse #Industry
WIRED
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
#AI #LLM #Education
MSN
Post-apocalyptic education
What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
#AI #LLM #Education
Post-apocalyptic education
What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
Hacker News discusses AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps
#HackerNews #Programming #AI #LLM
Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? | Hacker News
The Great Big Beautiful Lie (of Digital Purchases)
#Digital #Ownership
Public Knowledge
The Great Big Beautiful Lie (of Digital Purchases)
"Buy now" buttons for digital purchases are more than a little misleading.
"Today, we’re introducing OpenAI for Countries, a new initiative within the Stargate project. This is a moment when we need to act to support countries around the world that would prefer to build on democratic AI rails, and provide a clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI that would deploy it to consolidate power."
"Examples of this include the freedom for people to choose how they work with and direct AI, the prevention of government use of AI to amass control, and a free market that ensures free competition. All these things contribute to broad distribution of the benefits of AI, discourage the concentration of power, and help advance our mission."
https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-countries/
#AI #OpenAI
EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
#EU #Crypto
Cointelegraph
EU to ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027
The EU’s AML regulation will ban privacy-enhancing accounts and cryptocurrencies while bringing more oversight for crypto service providers in th...
Lay People can Distinguish Large Language Models from Lawyers, but still Favour Advice from an LLM
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713470
#AI #LLM #Law #Research
OECD: PISA 2029 Media and Artificial Intelligence Literacy
https://www.oecd.org/en/about/projects/pisa-2029-media-and-artificial-intelligence-literacy.html
#PISA #Media #AI #Literacy