As AI models become “smarter,” the environmental cost of using them may be rising. Your carbon footprint may come down to ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine.

A data visualization tool developed with AI lets city officials see how urban heat patterns affect residents and how tree ...

Cheap or free access to AI models keeps improving, with Google the latest firm to make its newest models available to all ...

AI tools like ChatGPT have changed our personal and professional worlds, with around 52% of American adults regularly using a ...

AI is making it much easier to spread disinformation, enable fraud, and cause conflicts to become deadlier. Moreover, AI, ...

Each model generates a certain number of “thinking tokens” per query, and those tokens correlate with CO₂ emissions. When the ...

A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models ...

A potentially misleading green claim could be a statement that a product or service is environmentally-friendly because it ...

A new study from the MIT Media Lab implies that using AI tools reduces brain activity in some ways, which is understandably ...

The subject matter of the topics impacted the amount of emissions produced. Questions on straightforward topics, like high ...