TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
Education Week

Real-Time Data Shows Exactly How Students Use AI on School Technology

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...
ascopubs.org

Development and Assessment of a Pipeline for Extracting Structured Data From Free-Text Medical Reports Using a Large Language Model

Medical free texts such as pathology reports contain valuable clinical data but are challenging to structure at scale. Traditional natural language processing approaches require extensive annotated ...
Game Rant

How to Escape a Level in YAPYAP by Extracting

Krista McCay is a writer specializing in video game guides and walkthroughs. She first entered the industry in 2022 while studying English at UC Santa Barbara and working part-time as an editor. It ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
AZ Central

Data centers guzzle Arizona's water and power. We calculated how much

The proliferation of data centers in Arizona raises concerns about the strain on the state's water and power resources. Existing and planned data centers in Maricopa County could nearly double the ...
WDBJ

Virginia lawmakers look to address data center water use

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia lawmakers are considering legislation to limit water consumption by data centers. It comes as Google plans to draw an estimated 8 million gallons per day from Carvins ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...