
The Psychology of AI Doom: Why do people who are well informed about AI worry about unrealistic dangers? There are incentives for doomsaying.
Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.

Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI.

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

Major AI companies plan to meet the growing demand with nuclear energy.

To Fight Climate Change, It's Time to Consider Geoengineering

To Fight Climate Change, It's Time to Consider Geoengineering

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.

Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!

Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!
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