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Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4 billion (Financial Times)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 02/23/2025 - 23:03Silicon Valley fights EU tech rules with backing from Donald Trump (Financial Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 06:39OpenAI in talks over ways to allow its non-profit board to maintain control after conversion to a for-profit business (Financial Times)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 16:46Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati launches rival start-up (Financial Times)
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Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 02/13/2025 - 10:46US and UK refuse to sign summit declaration on AI
Vice President JD Vance warned Europe not to adopt “overly precautionary” regulations on artificial intelligence as America and the UK refused to join dozens of other countries in signing a declaration to ensure that the technology was “safe, secure and trustworthy”. The two countries held back from signing the communique agreed by about 60 states at the AI Action summit in Paris, dealing a setback to efforts led by French President Emmanuel Macron to build international consensus around the technology.