Meta's Big Bet: Power the AI from Space
Meta has struck deals to receive solar power beamed from orbit and store clean energy for over 100 hours at a time. Both technologies are years from working at commercial scale. That is precisely what makes the announcement significant: it signals how acute the always-on clean power problem for AI has become.
Read full story →OpenAI and Microsoft Just Rewrote the Rules of Their Partnership
A renegotiated deal ends Microsoft's exclusivity on OpenAI's products, resolves the looming legal conflict over the Amazon partnership, and changes who pays whom. The biggest winners are enterprises, who can now run OpenAI models on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud without being forced to choose sides.
Read full story →Enterprise AI Has a Productivity Trap. Getting Out Is Harder Than It Looks.
Most companies are using AI to automate email, summarize meetings, and speed up internal communications. The business-critical systems that actually determine whether a company makes money remain largely untouched. Only 39% of organisations report any enterprise-level earnings impact from AI so far.
Read full story →Google Hands the Pentagon Its AI With No Enforceable Limits
Google has signed a classified deal giving the US military access to its AI for "any lawful purpose" — a phrase the Pentagon has applied to drone strikes on civilian fishing boats and mass surveillance of Americans. The contract explicitly waives Google's right to veto any operational decision. Nearly 950 Google employees called it inhumane. Google signed anyway.
Read full story →The Incompetent Threat
Doctors, lawyers, musicians, journalists, and software developers are all making two claims simultaneously: AI isn't good enough to do this job, and AI is taking this job. These cannot both be true. One of them is being stated in public. The other is doing the work.
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