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Sam Altman says fears that AI data centers guzzle water are overblown — but hard to dispel
Sam Altman says concerns about AI's water use are overblown, comparing ChatGPT's water use to that of growing almonds in California.
‘Fight for humanity’: Avoiding a climate catastrophe means acting now
Record heat waves, deadly flooding and extreme weather reflect an ever-warming planet poised to soon breach safe temperature limits, according to a UN report released on Tuesday, but doubling down on climate action now c...
Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO
The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors." Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal's board of directors in November 2025.
The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability
After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.
Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name
Apple Maps is following President Trump's executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face
The US Army's sweeping transformation for future wars has lost some of its biggest champions
With Driscoll's resignation, the service has lost its leaders spearheading Army modernization. Those initiatives are now on uncertain footing.
Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario to 'Lake America,' joining Google
Apple is following Google Maps, after President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to change the name of a Great Lake.
OpenAI's entanglements with a data center company go on display in a new filing
SB Energy's IPO filing shows how it is entangled with OpenAI across its business, relying on the AI lab for demand in the AI buildout.