A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America’s Nuclear Weapon Scientists

Ypsilanti, Michigan resident KJ Pedri doesn’t want her town to be the site of a new $1.2 billion data center, a massive collaborative project between the University of Michigan and America’s nuclear weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) in New Mexico. “My grandfather was a rocket scientist who worked on Trinity,” Pedri said…

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LeBron James’ Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

The creators of an AI tool and Discord community that allowed people to create AI videos of NBA stars says that it got a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing LeBron James. This marks one of the first known times that a high-profile celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling the creation…

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The CDC’s Website Is Being Actively Purged to Comply With Trump DEI Order

Large parts of the CDC’s website and several important databases were taken down on Friday and Saturday to comply with Trump’s executive orders banning DEI content. Saturday, a message at the top of the CDC’s home page said the website “is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.” CDC websites and databases taken…

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Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Why did this happen? That’s in dispute. At…

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Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order

📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work. Or send us a one time donation via our tip jar here. Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense sent…

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What is Deepseek, Chinese AI model that rattled Chatgpt, Nvidia and freaked out AI world: Explained in 10 points

Deepseek has captured the attention of the tech world, surpassing the likes of other leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in terms of performance. The Chinese AI chatbox was reportedly developed for a fraction of the cost of its rivals, which has spooked the global AI market. DeepSeek’s emergence comes as the US…

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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead

In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published the “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” arguing that human ingenuity has been stagnated and demoralized by regulation, and that the only viable path forward for society is the accelerated development and adoption of new technologies, and specifically artificial intelligence. …

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