Biden issues executive order to advance AI infrastructure

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean-power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.

The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate lar

Tech leaders face a fork in the AI road: Build or buy?

Recently, I was invited to speak on stage at Insight Partner’s ScaleUp:AI conference for a panel aptly titled “Build versus Buy.” It shouldn’t be a surprise that this was a topic of discussion; After all, build versus buy is the great AI debate raging in boardrooms right now—a proverbial fork in the road that may separate the winners and losers of the business world over the next five years.

The “buy” path involves purchasing and implementing off-the-shelf GenAI tools, and if you w

Is Art Basel’s AI embrace a turning point for the art world?

When “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” an AI-generated artwork, won first prize at a prestigious competition in 2022, the backlash was swift and visceral. For many in the art world, it wasn’t just a controversial winner—it was a direct threat to the human essence of creativity. Generative AI was dismissed as a novelty at best and a cheap imitation at worst. The technology, in

AI slop is still distorting news about the L.A. wildfires

A firefighter emerges from the flames, a bear cub tucked under each arm. Another, in full protective gear, carries a tiny puppy away from the inferno. A third cradles a baby deer close to their chest. 

This clip posted to Instagram by @FutureRiderUS last week has more than 43 million views and counting. “Amid the flames, even the smallest lives fight for survival,” reads the caption, bearing the hashtag #CaliforniaWildf

A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires

Over the past few years, concerns about billionaires using media outlets they own to signal boost their own beliefs has become a growing concern. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns X (formerly Twitter)—and might be in the running to buy TikTok, if a Bloomberg report is to be believed.

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The AOL experience is still kicking in 2025

AOL is alive and well.

Decades after its heyday, AOL offers a subscription-based browser called AOL Desktop Gold, priced at $6.99 per month. While no longer tied to dial-up internet, it retains much of the charm of its late-’90s and early-2000s predecessor. 

In a recent YouTube &t=2s">video, Michael MJD takes viewers on a tour of AOL Desktop Gold. Upon launching the app, Michael is greeted with AOL’s class

Elon Musk announces a third patient has received a Neuralink brain implant

Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous syste

Firefly Aerospace’s first lunar lander will shuttle 10 NASA payloads to the moon

New year, new lunar lander: this time, from Firefly Aerospace on its first mission to the moon.

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1, dubbed “Ghost Rider in the Sky,” is set to launch on January 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center for a 60-day operation to Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide b

An AI-powered hotel  is coming to Las Vegas

Artificial intelligence was everywhere at CES in 2025, but in the coming months, it’s going to be a more permanent part of the Las Vegas landscape.

This March will see the soft opening of the Otonomus Hotel, which strives to be different than your typical Vegas hotel room or suit

How to save your TikTok videos before the U.S. ban

TikTok’s future in the United States now lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, and the odds don’t look good for the app.

The ban is officially slated for January 19, 2025,  when the app could vanish from app stores, leaving new users unable to download it. What happens beyond that remains uncertain, but the


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