2026-06-19
US Conservatives organize ‘Nationwide Day of Protest against the unchecked and unwanted expansion of AI data centers’ – organization pledges to give grassroots Americans “a voice in the critical debate over policies”
A Republican group is organizing a national protest across the US against the rapid buildout of data centers. [...]
2026-06-19
A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.
The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.
For two years, the people building AI told us it was coming for our jobs. This month, the same people started saying it will create them. Speaking in Paris, Jeff Bezos said AI would cause “a labour shortage”, not mass unemployment, and would unlock almost endless demand for builders and entrepreneurs. Days earlier, Sam Altman […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work
Even the best AI model fails at realistic knowledge work, fully solving just 3 percent of tasks.<br /> The article New benchmark exposes how badly AI struggles with real knowledge work appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
