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Artificial intelligence has created a new digital divide, fracturing the world between nations with the computing power for building cutting-edge A.I. systems and those without. The split is influencing geopolitics and global economics, creating new dependencies and prompting a desperate rush to not be excluded from a technology race that could reorder economies, drive scientific […]

The New York Times At the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday, U.S. President Trump touted more than $90 billion in corporate investment aimed at accelerating the development of AI in the state. Private equity firm Blackstone announced that it would invest $25 billion in new datacenters and energy infrastructure, […]

The government in Denmark wants to protect citizens from deepfake images by giving them more control over their own likenesses, expanding copyright law in a pioneering measure that would allow people to demand that social media platforms take down digital forgeries. Deepfake technology, which uses A.I. tools to create ultrarealistic images, videos or audio that […]

The next time you rent a car, that ding on the door might not slip under the radar. Powerful new A.I.-driven tools are helping Hertz and other companies catch every little scratch, and puzzled renters are being asked to pay up. Hertz, one of the world’s largest car rental companies, debuted the technology last fall […]

The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest U.S. teachers’ union, said on Tuesday that it would start an A.I. training hub for educators with $23 million in funding from three leading chatbot makers: Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic. The union said it planned to open the National Academy for A.I. Instruction in New York City, starting […]

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of […]

The New York Times The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) said on Tuesday it would start an AI training hub for educators with $23 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The second-largest U.S. teachers’ union said it would open the National Academy for AI Instruction in New York City, starting with hands-on workshops […]

Some experts argue that A.I. is most likely to affect novice workers, whose tasks are generally simplest and therefore easiest to automate. Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the A.I. company Anthropic, recently told Axios that the technology could cannibalize half of all entry-level white-collar roles within five years. An uptick in the unemployment rate […]

Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said on Tuesday that it had rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows customers to automatically block artificial intelligence companies from collecting their digital data, a move that has implications for publishers and the race to build A.I. With Cloudflare’s new […]