Emma Roth

News Writer

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Emma RothApr 17

This startup sells dead company data for AI training.

SimpleClosure, a startup that helps struggling companies shut down, launched a new tool for businesses that want to sell off old code, Slack messages, emails, and workspace information to data-hungry AI companies, as reported by Forbes:

The demand for this real-world enterprise data has spurred on a new industry of ‘reinforcement learning gyms,’ which specialize in using defunct company data to build simulated environments where AI agents can practice navigating real workplaces.

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is officially leaving the company

Emma RothApr 16

Google’s AI Mode update lets you open links without leaving the page

Emma RothApr 16

It’s getting easier for Android devs to code with AI agents.

Along with an upgraded Android CLI, Google is launching a new Android skills GitHub repository and an Android Knowledge base, which can provide AI agents with the information and resources they need to perform coding tasks.

Android CLI.

Image: Google

Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway

The push for online child safety is forcing platforms to adopt a narrow set of privacy-encroaching age verification options.

Emma RothApr 16

Emma RothApr 15

Data centers will soon have to complete “mandatory” energy usage surveys.

The plans, which were revealed in a letter seen by Wired, come in response to a bipartisan push to find out how much energy data centers are sucking up. The Energy Information Administration reportedly plans to launch the nationwide surveys after it wraps up pilot surveys in data center-heavy areas, such as Texas, Washington state, Washington DC, and northern Virginia.

The US Government Will Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use

[WIRED]