artificial intelligence

Policy protects sensitive county data.

A study in Poland found that doctors appeared less likely to detect abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they'd grown used to help from an AI tool.

As more and more AI mega data centers are being built in Texas, there's a growing awareness of the water demand of Big Tech. If not addressed, AI data centers could consume a serious portion of the state's water supply.

This week on Texas Matters: The demands of massive AI data centers are growing every day.ERCOT projects the state’s grid will need to double in the next five years to meet the demands of AI.AI also uses a lot of water. It’s projected AI will consume nearly 7% of the state’s water supply by the year 2030, a significant drain on a state already dealing with water scarcity.

Improved flood gauge sensors and proactive alerts to first responders are also in the works.

Students are increasingly using AI tools to help with — and do — their homework. Here's how older online study services, students and professors are adapting.

Google's AI Overviews feature can deliver an answer to your question before you click a single link. But it spells bad news for the publishers that write the articles that power these AI summaries: their business models depend on site visits to sell ads. And some smaller publishers have already gone out of business as the use of AI summaries grows.

Disney and Universal's 110-page lawsuit against Midjourney claims the AI player stole "countless" copyrighted works to train its software.

You no longer need to be a software engineer to build software — you can "vibe code" it by prompting chatbots to build apps and websites. Could that put programmers out of a job?

Nvidia has become one of the most valuable corporations on Earth. The computer chip maker won big in gambling on AI. Those chips promise changes that will rival the industrial revolution. Stephen Witt is the author of the book "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip."