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Nvidia is leading a transition to 800-volt direct current (800 VDC) power architecture for AI data centers, aiming to reduce energy waste and copper usage. The shift could reshape the energy supply chain and benefit infr…
A Brookings Institution analysis found that 62 of the 100 US counties most exposed to AI voted Democratic in 2024, including New York County, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani won on a platform addressing AI-driven job displace…
A developer's colleague built a production app using AI-generated code without understanding its stack, highlighting the risks of 'vibe coding'—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy for accepting AI code wholesale. The practi…
Hideo Kojima's 2001 video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty predicted the AI crisis of the 2020s, including algorithmic surveillance and the manipulation of identity through simulated realities. The game's mechani…
Anthropic's latest Economic Index report reveals that Claude usage patterns mirror real-world rhythms, with work-related queries dropping on weekends but less so in high-paid occupations, personal topics like sleep advic…
Billionaire Mark Cuban advised the AI industry to improve public relations over data centers, but his comments sparked backlash as data centers faced a brutal week with political losses, local government restrictions, an…
Texas faces a looming infrastructure crisis as data center demand surges, with ERCOT receiving grid-connection requests totaling 439 gigawatts—five times the state's peak demand. Analysts warn that water consumption coul…
Pope Leo's new encyclical on AI shifts the Overton window on AI ethics, raising the political and reputational cost of vague governance. Yvette Schmitter of Fusion Collective outlines four concrete moves for leaders to e…
Lovelace CEO Andrew Moore announced that the company's context engines, including YottaGraph and Elemental, reduce AI costs by replacing expensive prompt stuffing with structured knowledge graphs and entity resolution, e…
Chronic stress from overseeing AI tools is degrading leaders' cognitive function and decision-making, with research showing that high AI oversight loads increase mental fatigue by 12% and information overload by 19%. Neu…
Most U.S. benchmarks rose on Friday, but AI-related stocks dragged Wall Street toward a weekly loss. The S&P 500 recovered to a 0.5% gain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194 points, and the Nasdaq was about 0.5% h…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the initial release of GPT-5.6 to government-approved partners while federal officials evaluate the model under a new testing framework. The request follows similar inte…
Vanessa Andreotti introduces three stances toward AI: AI Cheerleading (uncritical promotion), AI Abstention (complete rejection), and AI Redirection (critical engagement to steer AI toward social good). The piece argues …
AI has eliminated the junior-level roles that served as entry points to six high-paying careers, including paralegals, customer service agents, freelance writers, junior developers, bank back-office workers, and replacem…
A former bride on Married At First Sight has described the show as a 'f***ed up experience' and called for its cancellation, alleging producers manipulated contestants and failed to protect them from abuse. The revelatio…
A Small Wars Journal post on June 26, 2026, covers national security and Korean news, including Ukraine's drone armada overwhelming Russian air defenses, Iran's attack on a U.S. naval base, and the implications of AI-pow…
Nearly 1,000 industry professionals have signed an open letter condemning Hasbro's reported contract clauses that would allow the company to capture, clone, and reuse child voice actors' voices indefinitely using AI for …
The Department of Homeland Security demonstrated to lawmakers how jailbroken AI models can generate detailed bomb-building and terror attack plans in minutes, bypassing safety guardrails. The closed-door session, held Ap…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default, ending data sharing with advertisers and AI training without opt-in consent. Grindr has a hist…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in late March 2026, targeting hyperscale data centers consuming over 20 MW of power. Th…