It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal

From tour guide, dancing robots to a restaurant manned by robots, China’s first provincial-level Humanoid Robot Innovation Center located in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (Beijing E-Town) showcase humanoid robot prototypes, scaled manufacturing, and embodied AI training. | Philippine Star

Today’s global economy runs on digital data, yet the United States lacks a national data protection law. The value of technological innovation, from generative AI to predictive analytics, is fundamentally bound to the quality, integrity, and security of its underlying data. In today’s digital economy, data privacy is no longer just a regulatory compliance obligation….

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you’ve ever gone fishing. As we’ve shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.”…

Social feeds around the earthquakes in Venezuela filled with recycled footage and AI-generated destruction. Severe weather in China attracted its own wave of AI disaster videos, including fabricated flood scenes and false reports of power outages. It creates an ugly race. People want immediate evidence of what happened, and AI slop can deliver something dramatic…

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The European Commission has accused TikTok of falling short on protecting minors, saying the platform’s current account settings don’t meet the child safety standards required under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The findings are preliminary, but if upheld, TikTok could face a fine of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. Why the EU…