Data Doctors: Is Google using my email messages to train AI?

A viral story claims Gmail automatically opted all users into a program that lets Google train its AI on your private emails ...
Politifact

Are tech companies using your private data to train AI models? Here’s what we know

Leading tech companies are in a race to release and improve artificial intelligence products, leaving U.S. users to puzzle out how much of their personal data could be extracted to train AI tools.
SiliconANGLE

Google details cloud-based Private AI Compute system for securing Pixel data

Google LLC today detailed Private AI Compute, a cloud-based system it uses to power its Pixel handsets’ artificial intelligence features. Some of the AI models used by the latest Pixel 10 smartphone ...
NPR

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

Google recently courted the township of Franklin, Ind., so that it could construct a giant campus to house the computer hardware that powers its internet business. But the company needed to rezone ...

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over ...