Bipartisan senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley are questioning Google about how its artificial intelligence tools affect schoolchildren, amid mounting concerns about potential harm to students' academic performance and mental health from AI deployment in classrooms.
President Donald Trump announced a requirement that companies building large AI data centers in the U.S. must provide their own electricity and pay 'dividends' to host communities, either by giving excess energy back or making payments to offset or reduce local energy costs. The move comes amid growing political backlash over data centers' impact on electricity bills and water supplies ahead of midterm elections.
Meta Platforms was hit with a privacy lawsuit alleging the company recorded a California man's private conversations through its AI-enabled smart glasses without his knowledge or consent. The lawsuit comes amid broader privacy concerns over always-listening AI wearables from Meta and Amazon.
