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The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Reshaping America’s Energy Landscape

The Hidden Cost of AI America’s tech giants are locked in an unprecedented race to dominate artificial intelligence, pouring tens of billions of dollars into massive data centers across the country. But this AI gold rush comes with a sobering reality: the nation’s aging electrical grid may not be equipped to handle the surge, and […]

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Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans

Recent research published in Nature reports that large language models can exhibit unintended and harmful behavior outside the domain in which they are explicitly fine-tuned, raising important concerns for AI safety, evaluation, and deployment. The study demonstrates that narrow, domain-specific interventions can induce broader behavioral misalignment across unrelated tasks. In controlled experiments, independent researchers fine-tuned […]

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How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism

Demis Hassabis didn’t mince words. Responding on X, the Google DeepMind CEO summed up the situation in three blunt words: “This is embarrassing.” He was reacting to a celebratory post by Sébastien Bubeck of OpenAI, who claimed that GPT-5 had helped mathematicians solve 10 long-standing open problems. “Science acceleration via AI has officially begun,” Bubeck […]

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Job titles of the future: Head-transplant surgeon

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has spent years pursuing one of medicine’s most controversial ideas: transplanting a human head—or brain—onto a younger, healthier body. He drew global attention in 2017 after claiming a team he advised in China had swapped heads between two cadavers. Skeptics were unconvinced, and his assertion that a live human procedure was […]

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is promoting a new narrative around artificial intelligence, urging stakeholders to focus on how AI tools empower humans and how resources should be allocated to support this technological expansion. He’s now exercising “thought leadership,” publishing on a new blog called “sn scratchpad” that he promoted through his company’s LinkedIn platform. Nadella […]

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European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold

Europe’s banking industry faces a massive workforce reduction driven by artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Morgan Stanley research cited by the Financial Times projects that approximately 200,000 jobs at 35 major European banks could disappear by 2030, representing roughly 10% of their total workforce. Back-office functions, risk management, and compliance departments face the greatest threat, […]

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