Most AI training follows a simple principle: match your training conditions to the real world. But new research from MIT is challenging this fundamental assumption in AI development. Their finding? AI ...

reduce energy consumption in buildings and help design more sustainable infrastructure. However, AI can also be used in industries that create large-scale environmental harm — including ...

Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast ...

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has dropped a new AI chatbot it says is much cheaper than the systems operated by US tech giants like Microsoft and Google, and could make the technology ...

However, energy consumption is only one part of their broader environmental impact. Late last year, ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot run by OpenAI, celebrated its second birthday. In its brief ...

A statement from Biden, released by the White House, indicated, “these efforts also will help position America to lead the world in clean ... environmental impact.” Meanwhile, the UK’s AI ...

Both presidents protected vast swaths of public land and championed environmental ... AI beast. Biden’s order aimed to put public lands on the menu, as long as the energy sources are “clean ...

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden issued an executive order to accelerate development of AI data centers and ...

With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to accelerate and scale up AI ... environmental standards and our shared efforts to protect clean air and ...