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How tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (www.washingtonpost.com)
1 day ago

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (www.washingtonpost.com)
6 days ago Google

Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on 24 standards developed by experts (www.washingtonpost.com)
11 days ago

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (www.washingtonpost.com)
12 days ago Energy AI NASA

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (www.washingtonpost.com)
19 days ago AI Elon Musk

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (www.washingtonpost.com)
19 days ago Israel Google AI Drone

Court filings allege Anthropic, Meta, and other AI companies found ways to acquire books without authors' knowledge, including by downloading pirated copies (www.washingtonpost.com)
24 days ago AI

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec (www.washingtonpost.com)
25 days ago Google

A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses (www.washingtonpost.com)
25 days ago Apple chatbot

CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-12 AI Lenovo

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like local water supplies and electricity prices (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-8

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-7

Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-30 Trump U.S. Elon Musk

ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like “hanging” and “suicide” very often, say family's lawyers (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-28

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-27 India Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Internal documents: Instagram execs have waged an aggressive campaign to win back teens, boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-26 Instagram Algorithm

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-26

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-15

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-15 Trump AI

Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-14

Trump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce “burdensome” AI regulations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-13 Trump AI

TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-10 Google Apple

A look at an “etiquette camp” for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-8 San Francisco

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer, providing $6B+ in 2025 revenue, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its US delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-6 Amazon

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-5 AI chatbot

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B+ in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-4 Amazon

Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made “no sense” (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-3 Trump Immigration

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-1 AI Brazil

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-11-24 Facebook AI

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launches a federal investigative task force to crack down on overseas crime organizations behind crypto scams targeting Americans (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-11-13 U.S.

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