Design by Zury Cordova By Fahmid Alam Just a few years ago, the words “artificial intelligence” instilled people with an electrifying mix of excitement and concern, seeing it as a strange gift that came wrapped in possibility for all the different ways society could be developed. But even then, AI had been designated as a service, and many overlooked the implications of how that would shape the way it was used. With grand-scale demand that was growing at an exponential rate,

Jefferson Lab | Photo by Aileen Devlin By Francisca Lorca The use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has been helpful in recent years to bigger corporations (such as Google and Meta, to name a few), but has received backlash in different communities. The water A.I. requires to keep itself functioning reaches five million gallons per day, which is equivalent to the usage by a population of 10,000 to 50,000 people. With a wide variety of data centers throughout the United State

"A Recent Entrance to Paradise," generated by DABUS By Max Pearson On March 2nd, 2026, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Steven Thaler, a computer scientist seeking copyright for his AI generated work "A Recent Entrance to Paradise." The Court's refusal cemented a long-upheld tenet that copyrighted works must be made by a human. This decision could prove monumental, both for those interested in AI development and for human artists who seek to protec

Design by Zury Cordova By Alyssa Beaumont After the establishment of TikTok’s new U.S.-owned-and-operated branch, CNBC reported a 150% increase in users deleting the app. Many people have raised concerns over potential privacy infringements and censorship in favor of pro-U.S. propaganda. Such fears bear a striking resemblance to those that were levied against ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company. In response to China’s rumored control over TikTok, Senator Mark Warner,

Design by Zury Cordova By Alyssa Beaumont Capital flight describes the rapid removal of assets or money from a country, typically in response to economic or political instability. TikTok is not a country — though its audience of 1.9 billion monthly users would make it the largest in the world — but it has become a hub for free economic and political discussions. Politicians and corporations recognized this massive global reach as an asset for power and scrambled to take contr