By 2030, water consumption linked to the use of artificial intelligence will be equivalent to that of 1.3 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa, while it will require nearly three times the annual energy consumption of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria — countries with a combined population of 650 million. In terms of carbon emissions, these could reach 400 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, comparable to the United Kingdom’s total emissions. The operation of AI will require 14,500 square kilometres of land, including infrastructure and supply chains — twice the size of the Jakarta metropolitan area, a megacity with more than 32 million inhabitants, or 10 times that of Mexico City (21 million).

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by Willow Tohi | Natural News Google confirmed it uses web content to train AI-powered search features (e.g., Gemini) even when publishers opt out, as its search division operates under different rules than general AI training policies. To fully block AI training, publishers must opt out of Google Search indexing via robots.txt. But this renders their content invisible in search results, harming traffic and ad revenue. The Justice Department proposes drastic measures, including forcing Google to divest Chrome, end default-search payments, and share search/AI data with competitors to curb dominance. Publishers and authors accuse Google and OpenAI of exploiting copyrighted […]

Il fatturato 2026 di Anthropic è sui 30 miliardi di dollari e poggia su una scommessa: una politica di prezzo mai usata prima su scala così larga. Se la scelta non paga, il problema non investe solo l’azienda, ma il modello finanziario dell’intero settore.

L'articolo La difficile scommessa di Anthropic * proviene da Lavoce.info.

Usa, Cina ed Europa hanno approcci diversi all’IA e al finanziamento del suo sviluppo. Per l’Unione europea è però arrivato il momento di decidere se la dipendenza tecnologica dai modelli americani è un fatto da gestire o un problema da affrontare.

L'articolo La scelta europea tra IA open source e sovranità * proviene da Lavoce.info.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, 46, and Nate Soares, 37, are convinced that if artificial intelligence (AI) systems continue to improve, they will eventually surpass human capabilities. And when that happens, humanity will go extinct. They argue this could occur in a matter of months or within a decade. The title of their latest book is blunt: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Little, Brown & Co).

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Stock markets continue to perform strongly despite the mounting risks. Neither the war in the Middle East, nor the resurgence of inflationary pressures, nor fears of an economic slowdown have managed to slow down the equity market. However, beneath this apparent strength there lies an increasingly evident fragility: the growing concentration of the market. The bulk of the gains rests on an increasingly limited number of stocks, and the trend is particularly evident in the U.S. According to Goldman Sachs, 85% of the S&P 500’s gains so far in 2026 (10%) come from technology. Excluding the sector, the advance drops to 3%.

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On the first day of Cannes, artificial intelligence already sparked a debate between two jury members, Demi Moore and Paul Laverty. From that moment, the festival and the market running alongside it diverged in their reactions to the digital tool: while Cannes imposes limits on its use (even though one of its sponsors, which joined in 2026, is Meta, owner of Meta AI) and artists warn of its dangers, the market saw a rush of Chinese films made with AI and a handful of Western projects embracing its use. Filmmakers will be wary, but the industry has rushed to exploit AI.

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In 2021, Miriam González, a 35-year-old from Murcia, Spain, went to the doctor because she was bleeding from her breast. She was told to relax: everything was normal. But in 2024, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And, shortly afterward, she discovered it was metastatic, at stage four.

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