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Pennsylvania’s A.I. Gold Rush Meets Second Thoughts

Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.

© Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

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Pennsylvania’s A.I. Gold Rush Meets Second Thoughts

Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.

© Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

© Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times

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Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules

The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Anthropic, led by Dario Amodei, was barred from government work after it insisted that its technology not be used in mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.
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OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

© Anna Rose Layden/Reuters

Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.
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Meta Projected It Could Spend $10 Billion on Anthropic’s A.I.

The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic’s tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.
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