Mathieu Pollet
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EU accused of hiding environmental impact of data centers (opens the original)
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The European Union has shielded data centers from public scrutiny about how much energy they use, according to a formal complaint filed Monday against the European Commission. The complaint lodged this week by Lighthouse Reports, and first reported by POLITICO, accuses the EU executive of setting up rules keeping the public from seeing how much energy and water are used by individual data centers. This comes as public opposition to power-hungry AI data centers grows across Europe, while energy p
EU to Trump: We will keep pushing for global AI safety rules (opens the original)
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The European Commission will continue to seek an international agreement on AI security, despite U.S. resistance, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said Tuesday. "The U.S. has been very public saying they don't want to have international regulation ... because they have concerns that it's hindering innovation,” Virkkunen said on the stage of the RAID Conference in Brussels in response to questions by POLITICO. U.S. President Donald Trump has brushed away concerns about AI existential risks as a "hoa
Putin signs off on 72-hour ceasefire with Kyiv as US envoys visit (opens the original)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv as U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow hoping to restart stalled negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Kyiv had previously proposed a ceasefire ahead of the diplomatic talks. “Indeed, such information was received from the Ukrainian side. Russian President and Commander-in-Chief Putin gave orders to hold off on attacks on Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight today,” M
UN backs effort to depict Africa correctly on maps despite US opposition (opens the original)
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The United Nations on Friday largely endorsed a resolution to promote maps that reflect the true scale of continents after an African-led campaign to move away from the ubiquitous 16th-century Mercator projection. The United States was the only country to vote against the initiative, denouncing it as part of a “much larger and more radical ideological project” and urging “countries to instill common sense to this body.” Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine abstained. Mercator
Flipping the kill switch: I survived 72 hours without US tech (opens the original)
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The first thing I noticed when I gave up American technology was the silence. My phone usually starts up before I get out of bed, buzzing every few minutes throughout the day with calls, messages, headlines, calendar reminders and social media alerts. It’s a constant pulse that averages nearly 200 iPhone notifications on weekends and twice as many Monday-to-Friday. But on this warm mid-summer Sunday, my life was on an unlikely version of mute. After years of reporting on Europe’s push to wean it
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