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US government reveals $5.25 billion spending on boosting national grid to help power new AI data centers — money will cover 31 projects across 26 states, but how will it affect energy bills?

* The US Department of Energy has plans for $1.9 billion in grants for 31 grid projects worth $5.25 billion, with recipients covering the other $3.35 billion * The money is essentially rebranded Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) funding from the 2021 infrastructure law, aimed at reconductoring and

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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

Yesterday, I spent the morning at OpenAI’s annual DevDay, where over 2,500 nerds discussed building software and marveled at the latest artificial intelligence models. The biggest reveal of the day was Dots, the company’s new, always-on agents that proactively help complete tasks and make autonomous decisions as

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Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Trump's 'AI Accord' Does Little to Actually Keep AI Safe, Experts Say - CNET

Leaders from major tech companies met at the White House on Tuesday to discuss what’s been on everyone’s mind this summer: AI safety. Afterward, President Trump announced that the group had reached a consensus to implement AI safety measures in a voluntary accord. The accord, which Trump posted

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Now’s Your Chance to Grab a 12-Month Sam’s Club Membership for as Low as $25 - CNET

Save up to $65: Amazon’s October Prime Day sales are around the corner but Amazon isn’t the only one offering dramatic discounts. Right now you can scoop up a basic 1-year Sam’s Club membership for as low as $25. Not only will you save $35 over the

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Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

The greatest threat to humanity’s survival isn’t climate change, nor is it AI. It’s airline pilots who like dressing up as hot cartoon foxes. That seemed to be the takeaway from a bizarre speech made last week by Alabama Republican Tommy Tuberville on the Senate floor last

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OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more. This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We’ve been hearing a great

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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the

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America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one

The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set

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Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages

Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta’s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. “It can’

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Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping

Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed reader. Moderators who use it

US government reveals $5.25 billion spending on boosting national grid to help power new AI data centers &mdash; money will cover 31 projects across 26 states, but how will it affect energy bills?

The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March

Trump's 'AI Accord' Does Little to Actually Keep AI Safe, Experts Say - CNET

Now’s Your Chance to Grab a 12-Month Sam’s Club Membership for as Low as $25 - CNET

Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business

OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July

There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI

Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one

Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages

Reddit is killing RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping

US government reveals $5.25 billion spending on boosting national grid to help power new AI data centers — money will cover 31 projects across 26 states, but how will it affect energy bills?