"Families shouldn't have to pay for the AI boom with their health." The Stargate Oracle AI data center in Abilene, Texas, a project with Open AI, will span roughly 4 million square feet. Completion is expected by year's end. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models. The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, are warning in a new report that since January 2025, Donald Trump's EPA has embarked on a systematic weakening of pollution safeguards, permitting processes, inspection norms, and other guardrails--at least 30 different actions--that could increase the health risks associated with the data center boom.

The easiest way not to build super-intelligence is for Anthropic to agree not to build it, said David Sacks, co-chair of Trump's council of advisers on science and technology. The easiest way not to build super-intelligence is for Anthropic to agree not to build it, said David Sacks, co-chair of Trump's council of advisers on science and technology. The safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash. It was only seven days ago that AI enthusiasts were cheerily toying with OpenAI's newest model GPT-6 Astra which was marketed in part as a lifestyle tool to help people book tennis courts, run fashion companies and order takeaways. By Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade".

Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Say More Trending Now Mashable Selects Creator Playbook Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series Anthropic's CEO urges the industry to slow down, and Sam Altman agrees Dario Amodei is proposing a three-step plan to slow the growth of AI capabilities. Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way. He has a Master's in Journalism from the University of North Texas and is a proud orange cat father. His writing has also appeared in PC Mag and . In a lengthy essay published Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the AI industry needs to deliberately slow the pace of AI development.

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You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Sam Altman reveals two ways AI can go'very badly' as he addresses concerns following chilling warning from whistleblower Meghan shows off Prince Archie's American accent in new Instagram clip of family's British countryside outings (and reveals Princess Lilibet's pink pedicure!) Man baby Harry and his bratty wife Meghan are so delusional they might be the only two people on Earth who don't realize what's really going on here: MAUREEN CALLAHAN US airman stranded in Iran describes TWO DAYS behind enemy lines after fighter jet was shot down: From'terrifying' parachute plunge to miracle rescue Buckingham Palace's hidden treasures: Forgotten items including pools coupon and worker's boots are found under floorboards during restoration Real reason Ivanka Trump can't stop flaunting her'perfect' life (and body) at 44... as she digs in her heels on divisive next move British sprint star Amy Hunt hits out at Sydney Sweeney for her naked betting advert which is'sexualising women's sport' - as other athletes condemn actress for move and brand it'a kick in the face' Tragic truth behind deaths of hot tub couple revealed for first time: Devastated friends break silence to share what really happened at Spanish holiday villa - including husband's brave final act Outrage after Ohio teen missing for more than 250 days found alive at disgraced teacher's home I haven't spoken to my 27-year-old daughter for two years. This is what happened before her wedding that tore us apart. I dared to try the risky new sex move all my friends are whispering about.

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Sony will deposit PlayStation Store credit straight into eligible US PlayStation Network accounts to satisfy a 7.85 million antitrust settlement, and many will be happy to learn that there's no claim form to fill in. Anyone who bought a qualifying digital game between April 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023, was enrolled automatically, according to the official settlement website. However, no money can change hands until Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the US District Court for the Northern District of California grants final approval at a fairness hearing in October. Don't mark your calendar and start building a wishlist just yet, though, because more than 4.4 million eligible accounts have been identified. That means once legal fees come out of the fund, the typical share will work out to a less-than-princely sum of a dollar or two in store credit per eligible purchase. If approved, the deal will settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit under the Sherman Act, first filed way back in May 2021 over Sony's decision to stop letting retailers like Amazon and GameStop (other outlets are available) sell download codes for PlayStation games.

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Will Reform Have To Give Their Mega Donations Back? After Reform's £72 million record donations, we're looking at whether they'll be allowed to keep the money. Legislation is going through Parliament that could limit the amount of money foreign donors can give, and be applied restrospectively, but Robert Jenrick has said the recent donations were entirely in line with the law. And there's been a shift in tone from tech bosses since the concerns about AI raised by researchers this week. We look at what a more controlled future for AI might look like.

AI will transform capitalism - but how? Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it's within our power to decide what that looks like T he idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle's Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding: "If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves, master-craftsmen would have no need of assistants and masters no need of slaves." The dream that automation could inaugurate a classless society is also present in the writings of Karl Marx. In 1858 he imagined the replacement of intellectual property with "socialised knowledge", which would merge into a "general intellect", blowing the foundations of capitalism sky high. Today this prospect has begun to haunt Silicon Valley.

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