AI is spurring a big expansion of high-voltage power lines. Landowners and locals are fighting back
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French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to Cyprus. The visit on Monday comes days after France dispatched a warship to the east Mediterranean island nation amid the Iran war. A Shahed drone struck a British air base on its southern coast last week. Macron ordered the French frigate Languedoc to waters off Cyprus to bolster the European Union member country’s anti-drone and anti-missiles defenses. The French president also decided to send ground-based anti-drone and anti-missile defenses to the island. Macron will meet Monday with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Cyprus’ main air base.
Two major economic plans unveiled at the annual meeting of China’s legislature outline top priorities. One is building a robust domestic market. The other is building China into a tech leader. Together they highlight the government’s balancing act between its efforts to transform the economy while managing a prolonged period of sluggishness. China is such a large exporter that the choices it makes affect countries and jobs around the world. The plans were presented at the opening of the National People’s Congress and are set to be endorsed by the rubber-stamp legislature on the final day of the eight-day session on Thursday.
AI is spurring a big expansion of high-voltage power lines. Landowners and locals are fighting back
Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles. These high-voltage power lines cost tens of billions of dollars a year and are the latest front line in the battle over tech giants' massive operations. Artificial intelligence advances are seen by President Donald Trump as critical to the nation’s economic and national security. But their energy needs are threatening to overwhelm the power grid and the transmission expansion is drawing opposition from landowners, conservationists, local officials, consumer advocates and states.
Trump warns in social media post more Iran officials will be targets in war, saying: 'Today Iran will be hit very hard!'
State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war
A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how bad casualties have been. Artificial intelligence has helped fuel misinformation in ways that weren’t possible during past conflicts, even just a few years ago. Coupled with state-linked disinformation and censorship, this creates an even wider vacuum in which the truth can get lost.
Pentagon says it is labeling AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk 'effective immediately'
Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, the communication and digital affairs minister says. Meutya Hafid in a statement to media Friday said that she has signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live and Roblox. The implementation will start gradually from March 28. Hafid said the government was helping parents fight back against online dangers.