#Artificial Intelligence

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New York Becomes First U.S. State to Pause Hyperscale Data Centers

New York has paused state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers for up to one year while regulators study their effects on electricity, water, air, noise and communities. The first statewide U.S. moratorium targets facilities capable of consuming at least 50 megawatts, with important exemptions and limits.

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MIT Students Built a Working Jet Engine With AI, Then Found Where AI Breaks

MIT’s JARVIS Challenge asked seven student teams to design and hot-fire small gas-turbine engines with frontier AI copilots. A winning engine generated net thrust, but hallucinations, weak physical understanding and manufacturing delays showed that expert judgment—not the model—remained decisive.

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KAIST’s Temporary ‘Jailbreak’ Makes Personalized AI Fine-Tuning Safer

KAIST researchers introduced Buffer-and-Reinforce, a two-stage fine-tuning method that temporarily isolates a language model while it learns private or company data, then strengthens its safeguards. Tests reduced harmful-response rates without materially sacrificing customization, but the evidence remains limited to controlled model evaluations.

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AI Reads a Herculaneum Scroll Sealed for Nearly 2,000 Years

Researchers have virtually unwrapped and read an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll without physically opening it. The combination of high-resolution X-ray imaging, geometry and machine learning could recover hundreds of texts long considered permanently lost.

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AI Helps Break an 80-Year-Old Erdős Mathematics Barrier

A general-purpose reasoning model produced a new construction for Paul Erdős’s planar unit-distance problem. It does not solve the entire question, but overturns a long-standing assumption and demonstrates a new form of human–AI research collaboration.