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.

Monarch Energy is nearing a deal to develop a data center in Rockford, Illinois, with a potential $12 billion investment. The project would be located on 1,100 acres south of the Chicago Rockford ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Enterprise clients can now leverage Growth Protocol's reasoning engine directly within Databricks via an SDK, without moving any data. Growth Protocol is an enterprise reasoning platform that uses ...

Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices. When you ...

A Rhode Island solar developer is advocating for a 30-year sales tax break to attract a data center to the state. The proposal has sparked debate, with supporters citing potential economic benefits ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would spend US$185 billion on AI-related capital expenditure this year. Image: Chad Davis/Flickr. Google has finalised its acquisition of US renewable energy ...

Elected officials in Ohio have done everything possible to bring data centers to the state even though they have almost no economic benefit. Today in Ohio podcast hosts asked Tuesday if leaders did it ...

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 ...

Norwalk City Council faces heated debates over a proposed plan to attract data center, with residents voicing concerns. Iran unleashes massive attacks on day 13 of war Supreme Court gets new emergency ...

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AI's water concerns are "totally fake." The truth about AI's impact on natural resources is more complicated. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...