The Advertising Tracker Inside the Chatbot You Trusted
A class action lawsuit claims OpenAI embedded Meta Pixel and Google Analytics on ChatGPT.com, tools that can capture form inputs as users type. The case argues that the intimate confessions people share with AI chatbots, health concerns, financial worries, personal fears, may have been transmitted to advertising networks without meaningful consent.
Read full story →The AI Power Bill Is Already Here. It Is Just Not Yours Yet.
Wholesale electricity on the PJM grid, which runs beneath Northern Virginia's data center corridor, jumped 75.5% year-over-year in Q1 2026. More striking: capacity prices, which price future expected demand, rose 398%. The market is already repricing AI infrastructure loads that have not yet come fully online.
Read full story →An Island, an AI Government, and 12,000 Hopeful Citizens
Tech founder Dan Thomson declared a micronation on a Philippine island and installed an AI council of historical figures as its government. Twelve thousand people signed up to be residents. Thomson himself has admitted he is not sure it will end well, which is perhaps the most honest thing anyone has said about AI governance recently.
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