Cohere released North Small Translate on September 10, 2026, an open-weight mixture-of-experts machine translation model with 218 billion total parameters and 25 billion active parameters, licensed ...

Merchants have become increasingly skilled at using consumers’ personal data, including their online shopping habits and smartphone use, to calculate an individual’s tolerance for higher prices. Now ...

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago says treated wastewater from its Calumet plant could be redirected to data centers — potentially reducing how much drinking water those ...

Data centers for AI and other digital use cases are consuming increasing amounts of energy and water, complicating the jobs of policymakers and community planners looking to protect residents’ health ...

There are two competing schools of thought over just how water-intensive AI is. In one, the technology is horribly thirsty. Data centers will exacerbate droughts throughout the country and “drain the ...

Apple is evaluating PrismML’s technology, which the startup says can shrink powerful AI models enough to run directly on an iPhone while using up to 15x less memory. The breakthrough could help Apple ...

A caregiver writes “noncompliant patient refused medication” in a chart. That one word, noncompliant, will likely follow the patient into every appointment after, colouring how the next clinician ...

As Alabama communities weigh proposals for new data centers, concerns about water consumption have become a flashpoint. Yet another major water user often escapes scrutiny: golf courses. A comparison ...

As triple-digit temperatures engulf much of the United States, the Trump administration wants grid managers to require the use of backup power that often goes unused. By Ivan Penn and Hilary Howard As ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to ...

A member of the public wears a "Don't data center my Texas" pin on the back of their hat while waiting for the Natural Resource Committee to convene on June 23, 2026. Data centers need a lot of water ...

Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center, ...