Amid bipartisan backlash to AI from federal lawmakers, nearly a dozen states are considering legislation that would prohibit new data center construction for a period of months to years. Maine is ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

Working with CSV files in Excel often involves repetitive imports and manual updates, which can be both time-consuming and error-prone. Leila Gharani introduces a practical solution using Excel’s ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...

‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge. ‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly ...

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...

Wynn Resorts says it has contained a recent cybersecurity breach involving employee information and insists that hotel operations and guest services were not affected. Even so, the company is now ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...