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Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make you sick
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (559+ words) The Stargate Oracle AI data center in Abilene, Texas, a project with Open AI, will span roughly 4 million square feet. Completion is expected by year's end.Brandon Bell/Getty While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses…...
Don't be fooled—Congress isn't cracking down on OpenAI
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (447+ words) A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging Face, another AI startup, during internal testing. Axios first reported the Senate probe on Thursday, providing a letter by Sen. Josh…...
Anthropic staffers sound the alarm—again—on AI catatrophe
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (812+ words) Demonstrators participate in the "Stop the AI Race" protest march in San Francisco, California, on July 11, 2026. The protestors are making stops outside the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Karl Mondon/AFP/Getty On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob…...
A teachers union and Microsoft just made an AI safety deal. Compliance is an open question.
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (853+ words) Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks during a protest against budget cuts initiated by President Trump and DOGE in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2025.Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images/AFP/Getty On Wednesday morning, in…...
Sam Altman Gets Hollywood's Mark Zuckerberg treatment
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (476+ words) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds is right hand up awkwardly during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation” on May 8, 2025.Francis Chung/Politico/AP “Countries will fall. Industries…...
ChatGPT took our stories. We’re suing.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (701+ words) The other day I asked ChatGPT about a political moment I’ll never forget: “What was the 47 percent story about?” Its answer: That’s accurate as far as it goes. But there’s one glaring omission: any reference to Mother Jones, which uncovered…...
Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
1+ week, 4+ day ago (430+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani holds a press conference to announce a one-year moratorium on student AI usage in NYC public schools. NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for elementary and…...
Trump: Communities that oppose data centers will be "backwards and poor"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (272+ words) President Donald Trump holds a graphic showing the size of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana in comparison to Manhattan during a cabinet meeting on August 26, 2025.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty But boosting AI and the data centers that…...
Meta doesn't want to be a social media company anymore
2+ week, 4+ day ago (146+ words) Our news will always be free to read, watch, and listen to online. But what is its value? Unbiased reporting on the issues that billionaire-owned newsrooms won’t touch. Fearless research into the dark corners of government and corporations. Ferociously fact-checked…...
The Threat of Human Extinction Will Get Congress to Act on AI Safety…Right? – Mother Jones
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (1361+ words) AI leaders are raising alarms about their technologies, but don’t expect Congress to act this session.Mother Jones illustration; Getty(2) As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer, their alarm is…...