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Some States Are Targeting a Tactic Corporations Use to Raise Your Grocery Prices
Companies are using personal data to set individualized prices for customers, a ploy known as surveillance pricing.
Sanders and AOC Introduce Bill to Pause New AI Data Centers Nationwide
This comes as Trump doubles down on speeding up federal permitting for AI infrastructure construction and operation.
Climate-Fueled Heat Waves Are Creating a Water Crisis in the Southwest
Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.
Deepfakes and AI Misinformation Reshape How War Is Seen Online
Viral synthetic videos of the war on Iran highlight urgent need for AI literacy.
Residents of Small Pennsylvania Town Resist 6 Planned AI Data Center Campuses
With little available affordable housing, residents of a trailer park are set to be evicted to make way for the centers.
Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
The Pentagon Is Using Palantir AI to Bomb Thousands of Targets in Iran
The system, known as Project Maven, also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic.
Growing Presence of AI Data Centers Prompts Debate on Native Lands
Concerns include environmental impacts and resources needed for the centers, as well as cultural creative theft from AI.
Trump Floats Treason Charges Against Media Outlets Over Iran War Coverage
The FCC chair also threatened to pull the broadcasting licenses of media outlets he accused of “running hoaxes.”
Republicans and Democrats Are United in Their War on the Unhoused
Theo Henderson, creator of the “We the Unhoused” podcast, discusses organizing against demonization of unhoused people.