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Law enforcement officials carry rifles while walking on a street in a neighborhood near Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 during the investigation of a shooting. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Police search Brown University after shooter kills 2 and wounds 8 on campus

Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin speaks at a news conference Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)

EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading

FILE - A spot that had been reserved for a representative of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sits vacant at a meeting of the National Association of State Election Directors in Washington, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Christina A. Cassidy, File) Photo Metadata (2 of 3) Date Nov 23, 2025 6:01 AM Headline Election Security Source AP Notes FILE PHOTO

Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks on how AI infrastructure and AI factories that generate intelligence at scale are powering a new industrial revolution, at Washington Convention Center, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bubble fears ease but investors still waiting for AI to live up to its promise

FILE - Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, such as artificial intelligence, in Ashburn, Virginia, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Groups push back on Montana’s ‘data center boom’ in petition before utility commission

Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'

The work of seeking and synthesizing information can improve understanding of it compared to reading a summary. Tom Werner/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search

FILE - Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Cloudflare outage impacts thousands, disrupts transit systems, ChatGPT, X and Eye On Dunn County

Contrails have a simple explanation, but not everyone wants to believe it. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Why the chemtrail conspiracy theory lingers and grows – and why Tucker Carlson is talking about it

FILE - Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

James Watson was both a towering and controversial figure in science. Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images

James Watson exemplified the best and worst of science – from monumental discoveries to sexism and cutthroat competition

(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

Mistake-filled legal briefs show the limits of relying on AI tools at work

FILE - The logo of Microsoft is seen outside its French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Microsoft Azure service hit with outage

This is an aerial rendering of what the planned data center campus in Port Washington could look like. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Washington

Wisconsin residents look for more input from state on mushrooming data centers

FILE - Thai officials show samples of illegally imported electronic waste from the United States which they said they seized at Bangkok Port during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit), File)

American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says

A Starbucks mobile app shows that the mobile ordering is unavailable during the Amazon Web Services outage, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

What to know about the Amazon cloud outage that exposed the internet's vulnerable backbone

AWS outage this morning takes down many websites and services

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows a meteor from the Orionid shower on Oct. 13, 2015. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA via AP, File)

How to watch the Orionid meteor shower, debris of Halley's comet

FILE - Sam Altman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI, testifies before a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Sex is a big market for the AI industry. ChatGPT won't be the first to try to profit from it

Governor Tony Evers

Gov. Evers Signs Bipartisan Bill to Prohibit Misuse of AI-Generated Images

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