2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (358+ words) NEW YORK — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (246+ words) If the restrictions demanded by those opposed to the data center in Upper Burrell had been in effect when the original Alcoa Technical Center was proposed, I doubt if the Alcoa Technical Center would have been built in the first…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (523+ words) VIENNA — The Assad-era government in Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor that was configured to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. The “configuration” and the “technical…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1063+ words) In nearly half of municipalities hosting the state’s most prominent data center projects, local public officials or staff signed non-disclosure agreements with companies, a dynamic that is fueling concerns that the public’s access to information is being compromised. Public records…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1431+ words) As Upper Burrell’s self-imposed November deadline for its data center ordinance draws nearer, residents continue to push for a stringent ordinance to be passed before the deadline. The township has a moratorium on new data center development in place until…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (507+ words) WASHINGTON — The sole pipeline that supplies water for millions of Grand Canyon visitors was badly damaged by weekend flash flooding, setting up a tricky repair scenario and upending a yearslong construction project to upgrade the line laid over terrain so…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (119+ words) Why do we need so many data centers? Some of them are not going to make it financially. Then what happens to the land they are on? What happened to reducing our carbon footprint? How do we go from reducing…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (295+ words) The race was part of China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China’s rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the U....

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1412+ words) NEW YORK — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (347+ words) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup’s…...