2026-07-12
AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it
The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their retirement dates too. Utilities, plant owners, and the federal government have all pushed to postpone the […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-07-12
Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.
The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety comes from broad participation, sharing, and oversight, he […]<br /> This story continues a [...]
2026-07-12
Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.
Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024, CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% across the week. The move was not driven by advertising, the business that actually makes Meta’s money. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-12
LinkedIn is the undisputed king of long-form AI slop, according to a study spanning five platforms
One in four longer social media posts is entirely AI-generated, according to a Pangram analysis. LinkedIn leads with 41 percent of long-form posts flagged as AI-written. The platform made up only a third of all posts scanned but accounted for nearly two-thirds of all detected AI content. Because the detection model tends to flag content conservatively, the real rate could be even higher.<br /&g [...]
2026-07-12
The PlayStation physical games debacle is taking over everything Sony does — it’s the biggest tech PR disaster since Sonos’ app update, so will Sony learn the lessons that turned Sonos around?
Sony's decision to drop physical media from 2028has caused a customer revolt, and everything the company does is overwhelmed by the backlash. Will it listen to lessons from history on how to turn this around? [...]
