Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

There's $67 billion in critical minerals in old electronics and mine waste. By some estimates, America has nearly all the rare earth elements it needs through e-waste recycling and mine tailings, ...

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching across multiple Utah sites. But intense local backlash in Box Elder County has ...

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.

How a simple classroom writing exercise provided an avenue for sharing and connection that moved students beyond AI-style ‘content generation’ towards human understanding My creative writing students ...

Keeping security algorithms current is now a lifecycle challenge that spans chip design, manufacturing, deployment, and long-term maintenance across the supply chain. To stay ahead of emerging threats ...

NSW and Victoria are in the midst of a data investment explosion that is now larger than last decade’s mining boom, injecting tens of billions of dollars into the country, but there are doubts whether ...

South Africa expects to fully launch a long-awaited database of mineral rights within 10 months, according to a senior official. The country’s government has frustrated investors by pushing back the ...

The National Gallery of Art’s latest exhibition, “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography,” lands at a particularly apt moment, its compelling images reminding us how dependent the ...