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WASHINGTON — Under pressure to act on unpopular data centers, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation aimed at shielding consumers from higher energy costs when new data centers are built in their communities. The vote was nearly unanimous, 417-3, with the only opposition…
OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar standards across the industry. The company is also releasing new information about several examples of AI model misalignment it identified…
Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. The Federal Reserve has decided to increase interest rates. How is this going down with the president? Is it a problem of his own making? Plus, Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran and Macklemore are all tied up in a…
Two women filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, claiming their photographs were found in his vast collection of child pornography. Identified in court papers only as Jane Doe and Amy, the women allege that “few if any” of those whose photos were…
Macklemore is donating $1 million of his earnings to Palestinian relief organizations following his removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour and he’s invited New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to do the same. In an Instagram post Wednesday, Macklemore said he wanted to “bring the conversation…
Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia are expected to share an update on Wednesday afternoon on five missing women who have been tied to an Olney home at the center of a sprawling death investigation. An investigation remains ongoing into the West Chew Avenue property as…
Meet PitchFly, WIRED’s latest editorial recruit. He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas. A sampling of his early output: “The Hidden Weather Problem Inside Surveillance”; “The Engineers Who Think Elon Musk Needs Less Computer Security”; and my personal favorite, “Everyone…
Washington Capitals forward and NHL all-time leading goal scorer Alex Ovechkin appeared in an ad backing Russian President Vladimir Putin, bringing renewed attention to the player’s controversial, longtime support for the authoritarian ruler. The TV spot came to light just this week, showing Ovechkin standing…
Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs’ are dropping the rapper and music executive as a client in his $100 million defamation lawsuit. Michael Tremonte, a partner at Sher Tremonte LLP, said Combs, 56, “has not paid a substantial balance of attorney’s fees, costs, and expenses,” according…
Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s third surgeon general nominee, was grilled at her confirmation hearing Wednesday about her stance on childhood vaccines, voicing support for immunization as she seeks to serve in an administration that has moved to make sweeping changes to vaccine guidance.…