As the summer Olympic Games approach, we can expect to see some athletes being banned due to doping. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which oversees American Olympic and Paralympic athletes, enforces stringent testing standards. Remember the female US track star banned from the Tokyo Games for testing positive for marijuana? Spoiler: she's back and faster than ever. Although marijuana remains banned in the Olympics, the NC double A Division 1 Council recently decided to remove cannabinoids from the banned drug class for NC double A championships and postseason football.

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Kim Beane

By now, we all know that Generative AI models are trained on massive amounts of data, much of which is collected from the Internet, as well as other sources.

This AI is also generating tons of new content, much of which ends up online. But what happens when this AI-generated content is used again to train the AI models?

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Dr. Christian E. Mammen

Today we’re digging into the energy demands of artificial intelligence and the political pressure it’s creating. Senate Democrats are calling out Big Tech over the skyrocketing electricity consumption of data centers powering AI, which makes this not just a tech topic, but a conversation about consumer costs, infrastructure, and the politics of energy.

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• Senate Democrats Press Big Tech on the Cost of AI’s Soaring Energy Demands

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• Kristina Moore