Al Gore launches massive satellite surveillance system using 300 satellites and AI to track deadly soot pollution across 2,500 cities worldwide, identifying nearly 140,000 pollution sources including thousands of 'super emitters' that kill millions annually.
New research reveals AI models produce up to 50 times more CO2 emissions when tackling complex reasoning tasks, with philosophy questions generating six times higher emissions than simple topics, creating a stark trade-off between accuracy and environmental impact.
AI erodes accountability with unattributable decisions, harms the environment through resource depletion and emissions, and distorts reality through deepfakes and hallucinations, fracturing our shared understanding of truth.
In a groundbreaking achievement, Google's AI model outperforms traditional physics-based models and official forecasts in accurately predicting Hurricane Erin's track and intensity up to 72 hours in advance, signaling a potential shift towards AI-driven weather prediction systems.
Meta unveils 'Hyperion', a $10B data center complex in Louisiana, set to consume energy equivalent to 4 million homes, prompting utilities to build new gas-fired plants and raising environmental concerns.
Google touts its new AI assistant Gemini as eco-friendly, claiming minimal water and energy usage per text prompt, but critics argue the tech giant omits key data and its overall carbon emissions and resource usage keep rising despite efficiency gains.
Google unveils AI Inference Impact Metrics, a methodology quantifying the energy, emissions, and water footprint of AI inference tasks like Gemini text prompts, revealing median energy use of 0.24 watt-hours and emissions of 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide per prompt.
Major tech firms pour billions into AI development, igniting a fierce arms race that exacerbates skilled labor shortages and surging emissions, undermining net zero commitments amidst the AI frenzy.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5, a groundbreaking AI model with immense capabilities like creating websites and answering PhD-level questions, but experts warn its energy demands could be up to 20 times higher than previous models.
AI model Perch empowers conservationists to safeguard endangered species through improved bioacoustic analysis, recognizing specific sounds, adapting to new environments like coral reefs, and allowing open-source monitoring of biodiversity.