The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive legislation of its kind, establishing international rules for the development and use of AI systems. The act marks a clear shift from the position that AI is ...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: ...

Artificial intelligence might be booming on paper, but in the real world, there are signs of a major slowdown. In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an ...

Rumors online have suggested for months that Microsoft could be using your Word data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). Microsoft, however, says it doesn't use ...

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows. That demand from AI, the research states, could ...

Data centers accounted for about 1.5 percent of global electricity consumption in 2024, an amount expected to double by 2030 because of AI use The electricity consumption of data centres is projected ...

Think of them as AI factories, churning out your responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and all the other generative AI tools. The costs are staggering. Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She ...