In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending daily life with shutdowns, social distancing, and heightened uncertainty, but the traditional economic ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

As the U.S. military expands its use of AI tools to pinpoint targets for airstrikes in Iran, members of Congress are calling for guardrails and greater oversight of the technology’s use in war.

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades. President Donald Trump had warned the US was “locked ...

Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. (Lily Padula for Engadget) At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX ...

Data centers in outer space? It makes sense, according to Elon Musk, hence the recent tectonic, trillion-dollar merger announced between his SpaceX and xAI companies. Whether it’s sensible, or just ...

Computer chips, servers and cooling system in this mega-data center will consume as much energy as 120,000 and 270,000 homes for a year. About 85% of the power will come from liquid natural gas ...

AI’s energy problem may also be its solution, as hyperscalers and governments are increasingly exploring opportunities to repurpose excess heat from data centers. An Amazon Web Services data center in ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

For more than a year, a mammoth $10 billion data center project has been quietly moving forward in the heart of California’s Imperial Valley. The nearly-one million-square foot computing warehouse is ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) tool is being used to identify “targets” and to direct enforcement activity as part of a ...

Wyoming is poised to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse after Laramie County commissioners last week unanimously voted to move forward with the construction of a 1.8 gigawatt data center ...