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Idaho teens build AI tool to help farmers save water and grow smarter
1+ week, 2+ day ago (25+ words) Two Idaho high school students are getting statewide recognition for building an AI system designed for one of the state's most important industries: agriculture....
The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here's what we found
4+ week, 23+ hour ago (1144+ words) If AI could save you five hours a week, the government wants to know: "what would [you] do with that time?" Would you spend "More time with family? Finally launch that Etsy shop? Fix the garage once and for all?...
What does the future of AI look like in Idaho?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (277+ words) So, ahead of the upcoming City Club or Boise forum, " AI In Idaho: Opportunity, Risk, And What Comes Next," Gemma Gaudette talked with some of the panelists including Jason Crawforth, CEO and founder. .. - On Air Now Playing BSPR Music (Classical,…...
Data centers" water use is hard to track, raising concerns in the drought-prone West, study finds
1+ mon, 16+ hour ago (398+ words) A new study led by the University of Illinois finds that much of that information isn't publicly available, creating challenges for communities trying to plan in a region where water is already scarce. Data centers " the massive facilities that power…...
Grok undressed her without her consent. She tells her story
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (109+ words) Grok, the AI interface available on the social media platform X, has been allowing users to generate sexual deepfake images and videos of people without their consent. - On Air Now Playing BSPR Music (Classical, KBSU) Grok undressed her without her…...
A new type of geothermal energy found in desert southwest
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (414+ words) An energy company based in Utah has discovered the first commercially viable "blind geothermal" system in the U. S. in decades. The recent surprise finding in the Nevada desert could provide enough energy to power a small city or data centers in…...
Do the people building the AI chatbot Claude understand what they've created?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (866+ words) And Gideon, welcome to FRESH AIR. GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS: Thank you so much for having me, Tonya. MOSLEY: The Wall Street Journal is also reporting that Claude was deployed through Anthropic's partnership with the data firm Palantir Technologies, which you have…...
Chat GPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1709+ words) Micky Small is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She started using Chat GPT to outline and workshop screenplays while getting her master's degree. But something changed in the spring of 2025. "I was just…...
AI brings Supreme Court decisions to life
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (735+ words) Artificial intelligence, meet the U. S. Supreme Court. It's an institution steeped in tradition and resistant to any quick changes in the way it does things. But like it or not, the justices are about to see artificially created versions of themselves,…...
Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (600+ words) The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now there's a shortage. The imbalance is expected…...