Thirst: Data centers likely will consume twice as much power and water by 2030, U.N. researchers said. Japan’s digital minister defended a bill to change the country’s privacy law to use medical and criminal records for model training without people’s consent. China wants to use AI to promote Xi Jinping’s thinking among its people.
Target: Florida sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing the company’s GPT platform of harming children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on self-harm and addicting young people. A British lawmaker sued xAI, saying people used it to create fake sexualized images of her. The world’s largest instrumental musicians union sued Warner Music Group and Universal for licensing members’ work to tech companies for AI training without their permission.
Rebuke: Trump called his Israeli counterpart crazy, modifying the word with an adjective that I can’t print here, illustrating their strained ties. Israel’s finance minister plans to expand three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank by more than 2,000 homes.
Leak in space: Five astronauts prepared for evacuation for about two hours as Russian cosmonauts tried to fix a crack on its portion of the International Space Station. NASA disagreed with how they wanted to do the repair and withdrew the order after the Russians paused their efforts, an official with the agency said.
Maps to the stars: A vast web of cold cosmic gas stretches across the heart of our galaxy with threadlike filaments flowing through space and converging into bright clouds where new stars form. And now we have a really nice map for it.
First case in decades: A calf at a ranch in La Pryor, Texas tested positive for the flesh-eating parasite, which left a gaping hole around its umbilical cord. The World Health Organization pledged more than $500 million to fight the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The CDC warned that the outbreak could match or surpass the outbreak a decade ago.
Protein alert: A Florida mother and daughter sued Campbell’s after they said they found “worm-like organisms” in their SpaghettiOs.
A somnolent duty: More than 20 police officers responsible for protecting the royal family were placed on restricted duties after being served with misconduct notices for falling asleep at Windsor Castle and leaving their posts unattended.
Arrested: A Norwegian teenager traveled to Britain to carry out a murder for money after a Swedish crime group used by the Iranian government recruited him.
Legal fluidity: Sex education in Italian schools will require parental consent under a bill whose sponsor said it aims to protect children from “the confusion of gender propaganda.”
Put it away: Poland will ban children under 16 from using mobile phones in schools and will introduce stricter age-verification rules for access to pornography.
