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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Netanyahu and his rivals are tied days from the vote, and both camps are fighting with bots, deepfakes and data.

Malaysia has barred civil servants from using Waze for official duties over its links to Israel.

Just Eat has apologised after its AI-generated food images went viral for grossly misrepresenting menu items.

AI-linked job losses in the UK are running at twice the rate of US and Germany.
Borussia Dortmund’s new scheme does not mean a ban on supporters using their phones and system is voluntary for fans.
Ukraine to team up with Finnish firms as Starshield problems, started amid Trump-Zelenskyy jibes, continue.
Tech-heavy Nasdaq falls 2.6 percent as debate rages over whether AI is a bubble.

For more than 50 years, a group of timekeepers has been quietly sneaking extra seconds onto the world’s clocks.
The vulnerability allows a hacker to change a website or extract data, including personal information.
The tech giant has been accused of misleading users regarding data privacy linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.