Come Clean: The UN Asks AI to Disclose a Footprint Nobody Has Measured
At London Climate Action Week, Antonio Guterres asked every major AI company to measure and disclose the carbon, water and land its data centres consume. A new UN report says that footprint roughly doubles by 2030, but names no companies and sets no caps, leaving disclosure in the industry's own hands.
Read full story →China Has the Clean Power. It Just Can't Get It to Machines That Never Sleep.
Beijing wants renewables to supply 80 percent of its AI data-centre power by 2030, up from 11 percent in 2023. The obstacle is not a shortage of panels but a grid that cannot match intermittent supply to a buyer that tolerates no interruption, and grid operators wary of losing revenue.
Read full story →OpenAI Has Stopped Hunting Bugs. Now It Wants to Fix Them Faster Than Humans Can Check.
OpenAI's Daybreak program shifts AI security from finding flaws to landing patches, with an open-source initiative and a restricted GPT-5.5-Cyber model for "trusted defenders" only. The catch: a firehose of findings that stretched human maintainers still have to verify.
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