Lake Powell water levels hit records lows this weekend, highlighting a growing threat to water and electricity supplies for millions of people in the American Southwest. Cornell University experts Patrick Reed and Flavio Lehner have been monitoring the driving causes behind the water drop, and how bad it could get in the coming decades.

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The New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data center permits, but the governor has yet to sign it. If she does, it would be the first statewide moratorium in the nation. Cornell experts weigh in on the potential pause.

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Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Juan Hinestroza is a professor of fiber science and apparel design who has worked with athletic companies on high-performance apparel. He directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory.

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Jose Andres is a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability who studies ecological and conservation genomics/environmental DNA.  He comments on the Trump administration's team-up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company, to preserve cells, tissue and DNA from threatened and endangered species. 

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Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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OpenAI has announced models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The companies are partnering to address the security incident.

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The Trump administration is discussing oversight on artificial intelligence models before they are made publicly available. The proposal is a departure from their long noninterventionist approach to AI. 

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Anthropic says its new system, Claude Mythos, is too powerful to share with the general public. The company claims hackers could use it to exploit security holes in computer networks with stunning speed.

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Several lawmakers announced a new bill to place a moratorium on the construction of AI data centers.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to encourage expanded research into certain psychedelic drugs to treat mental health conditions. The FDA is expected to issue national priority vouchers to three psychedelics, which will allow the review of those drugs to be approved quickly.

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President Trump announced during his State of the Union speech new agreements with the tech industry to ensure they cover more of the costs of powering new artificial intelligence data centers. It could signal his administration’s willingness to continue development despite the risk of further taxing the electric grid and spiking electricity prices. 

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