Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. U.N. warns of'moral red line' on killer robots; experts say it's already been crossed U.N. and Red Cross leaders warn the world is nearing a "moral red line" on autonomous weapons, urging bans on unpredictable systems and "killer robots" that target people as regulation lags. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

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Science Space Deep Space Space Telescope Look up! Now's your chance to spot an unusually luminous comet Comet 220P/McNaught won't be visible again until 2031--if it lasts that long. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . Earlier this year, a visitor called 3I/Atlas grabbed the attention of astronomers around the world,as only the third-known interstellar object to visit our solar system.

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One of the largest datacenters on the east coast, DataOne is also the first in New Jersey seeking to build its own power plant. One of the largest datacenters on the east coast, DataOne is also the first in New Jersey seeking to build its own power plant. One of east coast's largest datacenters accused of'violating federal law' Thu 27 Aug 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 27 Aug 2026 12.25 EDT The largest planned AI datacenter in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after a visual investigation found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators. Thermal drone footage captured by the non-profit newsroom Floodlight last week showed the partly completed DataOne facility in Vineland was operating at least 45 of the site's 62 generators at the time. The datacenter has stirred controversy since breaking ground in 2025 due to persistent noise complaints, unpermitted construction and a contentious zoning process.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Since stepping into the role of U.N. Human Rights Office's first chief of digital technology and human rights earlier this year, Wafa Ben-Hassine has been thinking about ways to better work with decisionmakers on AI. "Instead of just writing endless papers that collect dust, what can we actually do to talk to companies about how they build this technology and to pressure governments to hold them accountable?" asks Wafa Ben-Hassine. "The problem now is that there's such a lack of accountability and a lack of transparency in how the companies operate, and it's just getting worse."

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. When she founded the nonprofit Tech Justice Law in 2023, Meetali Jain did not plan to become the go-to attorney for people suing companies over harm from AI chatbots--but she's also unsurprised it happened. "It was a matter of time, I knew, before some kind of generative AI product was going to harm children," she says.

New York -bestselling thriller author Andrea Bartz struggled for years to hone her writing style and gain success in the literary world. So when she found out in 2023 that pirated versions of her books were being fed into AI systems, allowing them to spit out dozens of pages in her prose style in a matter of seconds, "it was like a gut punch," she says. The New York-based writer fought back by becoming one of the three main plaintiffs (alongside Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson) in a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic that accused the company of using stolen works to train its chatbot Claude. Bartz being alphabetically first of the trio, she "got the privilege and the tax of having my name become shorthand" for the legal precedent. Authors whose work was stolen would receive $3,000 for each book.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Senator Bernie Sanders believes AI and robotics are the most transformative technologies in humanity's history--and that we're not ready for them.