Saint’s Hours Drone video footage from the Francisco Police Department exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular and momentous urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants remove from their app stores 13 AI-nudifying “face-swapping”
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NEW YORK — New York will block construction of new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from energy-intensive facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology. Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order Tuesday morning imposing the nation’s first state moratorium
Bangkok– Oil prices rose early Tuesday as fighting intensified in the Middle East, while Asian stocks were mixed as markets in Tokyo and Seoul recovered from early losses. The price of Brent crude oil rose more than 2.3% to $85.18 a barrel after soaring nearly 10% on Monday. U.S. benchmark crude oil rose 2.5% to
WASHINGTON– American consumers (and the Federal Reserve) are suffering another headache from high costs. The surge in data center investments — likely to top $700 billion this year — to boost artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive, and economists expect it to continue pushing