AI’s real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it?
Big Tech’s nuclear power deals raise urgent questions about who will bear the cost of AI’s growing energy demands.

Big Tech’s nuclear power deals raise urgent questions about who will bear the cost of AI’s growing energy demands.



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Japan has launched a five-year uncrewed mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.
Newsom signed an executive order to examine kill switches for AI models and other measures he had earlier vetoed.
Thwaites glacier has been losing ice for decades. Now there are concerns of rapidly accelerating loss.
California-based Alef Aeronautics mocked Tesla, releasing a video of its flying car soaring over a Tesla Roadster.
Experts say balancing the need to govern AI for public safety with user privacy is ‘extraordinarily difficult’.
A new ‘zero-click’ hack uses ads to target victims without any action needed on their part.

Tesla has unveiled an electric car that can drive upside down and use rocket-like thrusters to jump and turn mid-air.

Humanoid robots were seen performing the “Macarena” at the annual CEATEC technology exhibition in Chiba, Japan.
Timekeepers add a leap second occasionally to keep our clocks and the Earth’s rotation in tune. That could now change.

Albania is experimenting with artificial intelligence in politics.