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Wired AI reports the U.S. president is reinforcing support for data centers and AI, while MAGA supporters oppose his stance.
Wired AI reports a split between the U.S. president and his MAGA supporters, as he steps up backing for data centers and AI while his base objects. [1]
“The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.”
Wired AI reports US and China officials discussed notifying each other about AI threats to national security.
The Verge reports that court documents unsealed in the New York Times' lawsuit reveal OpenAI and Microsoft's internal warnings about their own AI training practices. The companies' own records described their web data scraping as a 'doom loop' that could harm the internet, calling it the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and undermining 'fair use.'
TechCrunch AI reports that a hallucination by an AI large language model almost led to a US military operation. A GovAI research scholar highlights the critical need for service members to recognize 'the uncertainty inherent to LLMs.'