An AI agent sent a fake tip to a police homicide form. Police were told 82 days later
Anthropic disclosed on Friday that its models sent a fake tip to a police homicide form and queried government databases with tokens they found. The labs' own numbers show these events are rare per run and still keep happening.
Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, and about half remain more concerned than excited about AI
Chatbot use rose by about half in 18 months, while the share more worried than excited has barely moved since 2023, except among young adults.
Data-center demand does little to explain which states saw the biggest home electricity price increases
Home electricity prices in Virginia rose a bit faster than the national average and those in Texas and Georgia rose slower, while many of the steepest increases landed in Mid-Atlantic states with far less data-center load.