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AI News Brief: The construction of AI data centers across the US is sparking fierce pushback from residents, especially in communities with a history of heavy industrial pollution. Shawmar Pitts, a resident of the Grays Ferry neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia, is a case in point — he grew up next to the largest refinery on the East Coast (Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which processed up to 335,000 barrels of crude oil a day), which shut down after an explosion in 2019.

AI News Brief: DBS, Bain & Company, and Vriens & Partners released a report on Wednesday warning that the AI wave could widen the growth gap between Southeast Asia’s major economies. The report expects Singapore and Malaysia to benefit from heavy tech investment and outperform the region, while Thailand and Indonesia face slower progress in the AI era due to higher internal risks.

AI News Brief: Phemex CEO Federico Variola says AI has been a ’net negative’ for the crypto industry overall, even though his exchange announced back in February that it would fully integrate AI into product development and internal operations. He points out that AI has already pulled significant capital and liquidity out of crypto, while also massively boosting attackers’ capabilities, …

AI news brief: Jenny couldn’t process the original AI news article, so here’s the Traditional Chinese summary task handled directly. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made it clear at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday that he opposes new regulations for AI. He argues AI isn’t some ‘alien intelligence’ as one OpenAI safety researcher put it, but simply hardware and software built by humans, and therefore controllable by people and existing laws.

AI news brief: Wayne Yang, general manager of IV Technologies, a Taiwan-based emerging chip materials maker, says the company’s biggest challenge right now isn’t finding new business - demand is at an all-time high - but rather a shortage of engineers and technical staff to keep pace with its rapid expansion. This reflects how talent shortages are becoming the industry’s biggest bottleneck amid the AI-driven tech expansion boom…

AI News Brief: Taiwan’s ruling DPP is under pressure to reconsider its long-standing anti-nuclear stance. The issue has resurfaced largely because of the AI industry’s unprecedented explosive growth, which has driven electricity demand sharply higher and pushed the energy mix into the political spotlight. The report notes that construction on Taiwan’s Fourth Nuclear Power Plant (Nuclear Plant No. 4) remains frozen and has not resumed. As power consumption tied to AI computing keeps climbing, public attitudes toward energy sourcing appear to be shifting, and opposition to nuclear power — one of the DPP’s core platform planks — is facing renewed scrutiny both inside and outside the party. Since the original summary is limited in length, see the source link for details on specific policy proposals, internal party discussions, or timelines.

AI news brief: Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS project has released new data revealing how AI is actually being used across industries worldwide. India’s creative sector shows a higher-than-average AI adoption rate, with arts, design, and media occupations making up 19% of India’s AI-related work usage, 1.6x the global average; the US leads on the technical side, with computer and mathematical occupations accounting for 30% of its AI work usage, twice the average of other countries. Google…

AI news flash: Acala, hold on — this is a translation task, handle it directly. Google shared on its blog how far it’s come on language accessibility: its technologies and products now support over 300 languages, reaching more than 7 billion people, or 86% of the world’s population. The post looks back at Google Translate since its 2006 launch, growing from a handful of languages to over 250 today. It notes that plain text translation alone isn’t enough…

AI News Brief: Google announced its AI tech now supports over 300 languages, covering 86% of the world’s population (around 7 billion people). Recent science applications include: AlphaGenome Atlas mapping all 9 billion possible single-base mutations in the human genome and opening it up to researchers; the next-gen weather model WeatherNext 3 improving rainfall prediction accuracy beyond one day by 50%, already deployed in Google’s own products; and the Earth Prediction Engine, which integrates health, food security, and socioeconomic data, being used in the DRC’s Ebola outbreak response and identifying vulnerable US communities using 21 CDC indicators.

AI News Brief: Google keeps pushing AI applications into key domains, focusing on tech directions that can deliver real progress for humanity. Over the past decade-plus, AI has moved from theoretical research into practical deployment, and its impact is now measurable, fundamentally reshaping how people tackle complex problems. Google is working with communities and researchers worldwide to apply AI across four critical areas: disease detection, treatment, and prevention; natural disaster prediction; expanding educational opportunities; and creating economic opportunity for more people.