Technology

Rodrigo Zamith, co-author of "Journalism in the Age of AI," says the bigger risk isn't AI replacing reporters. It's AI undermining the economics that pay for local news.

Fayetteville's City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to add noise limits, water and energy caps and stiffer penalties to its data center ordinance. Council member Scott Berna calls it model legislation.

Kinetic warns of rising copper theft in Northwest Arkansas, causing internet and phone outages. The company is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to arrests.

UofA professor Marco Dehnert researches how people build relationships with AI, from grief bots that mimic the dead to companion apps selling what he calls on demand intimacy.

Swarm Aero, a drone manufacturer with operations in Fayetteville, has secured more than $10 million in Air Force Research Laboratory contracts to help build aircraft parts for the Air Force.

NWACC and MIT PATH met for two days in Bentonville with retail, health care, robotics leaders to shape AI professional skills training. Chris Lynch explains what businesses said they need.

Thirty teens spent a day at UofA's I³R workshop, working in groups on maternal health, youth tobacco use and extended reality in rural care. Coordinator Caroline Wahlgreen explains the approach.

The Northwest Arkansas city's police department is ending its use of the Flock Safety surveillance system after public backlash.

Arkansas Advocate editor Andrew DeMillo on the boycott of Tontitown's 127th Grape Festival, mixed reaction to a $6.6 billion Clarksville data center and 20 years of Arkansas' indoor smoking ban.

Eric Funkhouser, chair of philosophy at the UofA, discusses centuries of thinking about machine minds and what large language models mean for higher education.