Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Add New Agentic AI Features for Paid Copilot Users

New Copilot-powered agentic features are available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot or ...

Elon Musk teases plugins for Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint with xAI demo: Here's what Grok can do for you

Over the weekend, Elon Musk said that plugins for Microsoft Corp MSFT Excel, Word and PowerPoint are "coming soon." Grok AI ...
Microsoft

Cross‑tenant helpdesk impersonation to data exfiltration: A human-operated intrusion playbook

Threat actors are abusing external Microsoft Teams collaboration to impersonate IT helpdesk staff and convince users to grant ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
Wall Street Journal

Locals Are Using AI to Fight Data Centers Being Built in Their Backyards

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...
Reuters

NextEra expects to add up to 30 gigawatts of power for data centers by 2035

March 3 (Reuters) - NextEra Energy (NEE.N), opens new tab, the largest U.S. electricity company, expects to build between 15 and 30 gigawatts of new generation capacity ‌for U.S. data centers in the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers May Not Need Constant Peak Power, Study Finds

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...
Houston Public Media

ERCOT to update planning process for connecting data centers, other large loads to Texas power grid

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...
Reuters

Microsoft exploring using advanced power lines to make data centers more energy-efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
CNN

With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
Los Angeles Times

This L.A. startup uses SpaceX tech to cool data centers with less power and no water

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the artificial intelligence industry heats up, Karman Industries is trying to cool it down. The Signal Hill ...